Photos by: Mike Nguyen – Day one of Solaris Festival 2016 took place last night at Rebel in Toronto, which featured performances by house music DJ/Producer Marshmello, who has remixed songs by artists like Calvin Harris, Zedd, Ariana Grande, Avicii, Justin Bieber, Adele, and Duke Dumont, dubstep DJ/Producer Borgore, who released his newest EP, Keep It Sexy, on … Continue reading
Photos by: Isaac Wray – Day one of the 2016 Contact Winter Music Festival took place last night at BC Place in Vancouver, which featured performances by Australian DJ Flume, who released his second album, Skin, on May 27th, 2016 via Future Classic, which featured the singles “Never Be like You”, “Smoke & Retribution”, and “Say It”, Toronto-based EDM duo Zeds … Continue reading
Photos by: Orest Dorosh – Toronto-based indie rock/alt-country six-piece The Strumbellas, who released their third album, Hope, on April 22nd, 2016, which followed up their 2013 album, We Still Move on Dance Floors, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with Vancouver-based indie rock band The Zolas, who released their third album, Swooner, on March 4th, 2016, which … Continue reading
Photos by: Sue Sadzak – Montreal-based indie pop band Stars, who released their seventh album, No One Is Lost, on October 14th, 2014 via Soft Revolution/ATO, which was co-produced by Liam O’Neil (The Stills), and which spawned the singles “From the Night”, and “No One Is Lost”, performed the first of two nights at the Danforth … Continue reading
Photos by: Jon Wishart – Canadian progessive metal quintet Protest The Hero, who released their fifth album, Pacific Myth, on October 15th, 2015, which as distributed via BandCamp, and which followed up their 2013 album, Volition, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with Toronto-based punk-rock quartet The Flatliners, who released their newest EP/7” vinyl, Nerves, on October 28th … Continue reading
Photos by: Brendan Albert – Alt-Rock band She Wants Revenge, who released their newest album, Valleyheart, on May 24th, 2011 via Five Seven Music, which followed up their 2009 EP, Up and Down, performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last night with alternative band Raw Fabrics, who released their second EP, Plastic Joy, on … Continue reading
Photos by: Jon Wishart – Post-hardcore band Silverstein, who released their eighth album, I Am Alive In Everything I Touch, on May 15th, 2015 via Rise Records/New Damage Records, which features the single “A Midwestern State of Emergency”, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with Boston-based hardcore punk quintet American Nightmare, Michigan-based indie rock band … Continue reading
Photos by: Andrew Hartl – Toronto-based electronic band Holy Fuck, who released their newest album, Congrats, on May 27th via Innovative Leisure, which followed up their 2010 album, Latin, which received a long-list nomination for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize, and which reached #14 on the Billboard Dance chart, performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto last night with Toronto-based art rock band Absolutely Free, … Continue reading
Photos by: Brendan Albert – 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 the Opera House in Toronto last night with punk band Dead Tired, which … Continue reading
Photos by: Isaac Wray – Montreal-based indie rock band Half Moon Run, who released their second album, Sun Leads Me On, on October 23rd, 2015 via Glassnote, which followed up their 2012 debut album, Dark Eyes, performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver last night.