Photos by: David McDonald – Canadian country music artist Brett Kissel, who released his sixth album, Pick Me Up, on September 11th, 2015 via Warner Music Canada, which was co-produced by Mickey Jack Cones (Lionel Richie, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood), and which featured the singles “Airwaves”, “Pick Me Up”, “Cool with That”, “I Didn’t Fall in Love with Your Hair”, and “She’s … Continue reading
Photos by: Gunnar Mallon – New Jersey-based mathcore quintet The Dillinger Escape Plan, who released their sixth album, Dissociation, on October 14th, 2016, which featured the single “Limerent Death”, and which followed up their 2013 album, One of Us Is the Killer, performed at Rock City in Nottingham, UK last night with New Jersey-based hip-hop band Ho99o9, … Continue reading
Photos by: Saidy Lopez – Columbus, Ohio-based experimental rock/hip-hop duo Twenty One Pilots, who released their fourth album, Blurryface, on May 17th, 2015 via Fueled By Ramen, which has sold over 1 million copies in the United States, and contains the Billboard Hot 100 top-five singles, “Stressed Out” and “Ride”, performed at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York own January 20th with hip-hop/indie rock/R&B … Continue reading
Photos by: Jessie Lau – Chinese singer-songwriter Leah Dou, who is the daughter of Chinese musicians Dou Wei and Faye Wong, and who released her debut EP, My Days, on April 27th, 2016 via Universal Music Japan, which followed up her 2016 debut album, Stone Cafe, performed at Adelaide Hall in Toronto last night with Guelph, ON-based singer/songwriter NEFE, who won the … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini (@AngelMarchini) – Toronto-based synthpop band Austra, who released their newest album, Future Politics, on January 20th, 2016 via Pink Fizz Records, which featured the single “Utopia”, and which followed up their 2013 album, Olympia, which spawned the singles “Home”, and “Painful Like”, performed at the Mod Club in Toronto last night with Toronto-based dark pop artist Lido Pimienta. … Continue reading
Photos by: Julian Avram – Juno Award winning Canadian rock band, Sam Roberts Band, who released their sixth album, TerraForm, on October 28th, 2016, which was produced by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck, Alvvays, Viet Cong, METZ), and which followed up their 2014 album, Lo-Fantasy, performed at Rebel in Toronto last night with Toronto-based indie rock band Hollerado, who released their newest single “Born Yesterday” on January … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Los Angeles-based synthpop band Cold Cave, who released a new two-song seven inch, titled The Idea of Love, on September 9th, 2016 via Heartworm, which featured the eponymous A-side track, and which followed up his 2011 album, Cherish the Light Years, which featured contributions by Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw), and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), performed a … Continue reading
Photos by: Katrina Lat – Japanese alt rock band One Ok Rock, who released their eighth album, Ambitions, on January 11th, 2017 via A-Sketch, which featured the singles “Always Coming Back”, “Taking Off”, “Bedroom Warfare”, “I Was King”, and “We Are”, and which followed up their 2015 album, 35xxxv, performed at Rebel in Toronto last night with Philadelphia-based indie pop band CRUISR, who released a … Continue reading
Photos by: Clayton Mackney – R&B/Soul singer-songwriter Khalid, who has released nine original songs, including: “Reasons”, which was produced by Ducko McFli, ”Hopeless”, “Location”, “Would You”, “Stuck On U”, “Saved”, and “Coaster”, along with a cover of Frank Ocean’s “Lost”, performed at the Velvet Underground in Toronto last night with Toronto-based electronic/pop/R&B/soul artist McCallaman, who released his debut EP, Black Pop, in … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Steve Gunn, who was formerly a guitarist in Kurt Vile’s backing band, The Violators, and who released his newest album, Eyes on the Lines, on June 3rd, 2016 via Matador, which followed up his 2015 album, Steve Gunn/Kurt Vile, in 2015, performed at the Great Hall in Toronto last night with singer-songwriter Lee Ranaldo, … Continue reading