By: Gina Garcia – California indie rock band Rooney emerged in 2002, making their live debut with Phantom Planet, a more experienced L.A.-based group who shared similar classic pop influences (E.L.O., the Beach Boys) along with a family member. The younger brother of actor and former Phantom Planet drummer Jason Schwartzman, Rooney maestro Robert Schwartzman was also … Continue reading
Photos by: Brendan Albert – Australian psychedelic dance band Jagwar Ma, who released their second album, Every Now and Then, on October 14th, 2016 via Mom + Pop Music, which followed up their 2013 debut album, Howlin’, which featured the singles “Come Save Me”, “The Throw”, “Man I Need”, and “Uncertainty”, performed at the Hoxton in Toronto last night with electronic band Klangstof, who released their … Continue reading
Photos by: Katrina Lat – UK indie rock quintet Foals, who released their fourth album, What Went Down, on August 28th, 2015 via Warner Bros., which was produced by produced by James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco, The Last Shadow Puppets, Arctic Monkeys), performed at Rebel Nightclub in Toronto last night with Brooklyn-based post-punk/indie rock band Bear Hands, who released their third album, You’ll … Continue reading
Photos by: Francesca Ludikar – UK metalcore band Asking Alexandria, who released their fourth album, The Black, on March 25th, 2016 via Sumerian, which featured the singles “I Won’t Give In”, “Undivided”, “The Black”, “Let It Sleep”, and “Here I Am (Rock Mix)”, performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Joey Pacheco – Acclaimed punk rock band Bad Religion, who released their 16th studio album, True North, on January 22nd, 2013, performed at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on November 4th.
Photos by: Theo Rallis – Symphonic metal band Epica, who released their seventh album, The Holographic Principle, on September 30th, 2016 via Nuclear Blast, which featured the singles “Universal Death Squad”, and “Edge of the Blade”, performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last night with Italian death metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse, Montreal-based extreme metal band The Agonist, and heavy metal … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – UK electronic R&B singer-songwriter Lapsley, who released her debut album, Long Way Home, on March 4th, 2016 via XL Recordings, which featured the singles “Hurt Me”, and “Love Is Blind”, and which followed up her 2015 EP, Understudy, which featured the single “Brownlow”, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – UK synthpop band Pet Shop Boys, who released their thirteenth album, Super, on April 1st, 2016 via X2, performed at the Sony Centre in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Priti Shikotra – Hard Rock band 3 Doors Down, who released their sixth album, Us and the Night, on March 11th, 2016 via Republic Records, which featured the singles “In the Dark”, “Still Alive”, and “Us and the Night” performed at Manchester Academy in Manchester, UK last night.
Photos by: Aaron Eck – Ohio-based metalcore band Beartooth, who released their second album, Aggressive, on June 3rd, 2016 via Red Bull Records, which featured the singles “Aggressive”, “Always Dead”, “Loser”, and “Hated”, and which followed up their 2014 debut album, Disgusting, performed at the Mr. Smalls Playhouse in Pittsburgh last night with ew York-metalcore band Everytime I Die, who released their eighth album, Low … Continue reading