Photos by: Gina Garcia – Los Angeles-based R&B duo Rhye, who released their debut album, Woman, on March 1st, 2013 via Polydor/Loma Vista, which featured the singles, “Open” and “The Fall”, and which received a long-list nomination for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize, performed at Webster Hall in New York City last night with ambient pop band Cigarettes After Sex. … Continue reading
Photos by: Orest Dorosh – Grammy Winner Emmylou Harris, Grammy Winner, and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, JUNO nominee Ron Sexsmith, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, and The Milk Carton Kids performed at Massey Hall in Toronto last night as part of the Lampedusa concert series to raise awareness of the unprecedented worldwide refugee crisis.
Photos by: Timothy Nguyen – Swedish heavy metal band Ghost, who released their second EP, Popestar, on September 16th, 2016 via Loma Vista, which followed up their 2015 album, Meliora, performed at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver last night.
Photos by: Adam Horton – Hip-Hop supergroup La Coka Nostra, which consists of Ill Bill (Non Phixion, Heavy Metal Kings), Slaine (Special Teamz), DJ Lethal (House of Pain, Limp Bizkit), and Danny Boy (House of Pain), who is expected to release their new album, To Thine Own Self Be True, on November 4th, performed at the Rockpile West in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Josh Ladouceur – The Wayhome Music Festival held a screening of their 2016 aftermovie at Adelaide Hall in Toronto last night, which also featured a DJ set by DJ Windows 98 (aka Win Butler of Grammy-winning alt-rock band Arcade Fire).
Photos by: Brendan Albert – Toronto-based synthpop band Crystal Castles, who released their fourth album, Amnesty (I), on August 19th, 2016 via Fiction Records/Casablanca Records, which featured the singles “Frail”, “Concrete”, “Char”, and “Fleece”, which serves as both the band’s first album since the 2014 departure of ex-frontwoman Alice Glass, and their first new album since 2012’s III, performed at The Hoxton in Toronto … Continue reading
Photos by: Alx Bear – Philadelphia-Based synthpop duo Marian Hill, who released their newest single, “Down”, on March 4th, 2016, which followed up their 2015 EP, Sway, performed at Webster Hall in New York City last night with Brooklyn-based indie pop singer-songwriter Verite, and indie pop trio Shaed, which consists of twin brothers Max and Spencer Ernst and vocalist … Continue reading
Photos by: Timothy Nguyen – Los Angeles-based ska-punk band The Interrupters, who released their sophomore album, Say It Out Loud, on June 24th, 2016 via Hellcat Records, performed at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver last night.
Photos by: Alx Bear – Indie Pop singer-songwriter Skylar Grey, who released her third album, Natural Causes, on September 23rd, 2016 via Interscope, which featured the singles “Moving Mountains”, “Off Road”, “Come Up for Air”, and “Lemonade”, and which followed up her 2013 album, Don’t Look Down, performed at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City last night with indie … Continue reading
Photos by: Shahnoor Ijaz – UK-based indie pop singer-songwriter Tom Odell, who released his second album, Wrong Crowd, on June 10th, 2016 via RCA, which featured the singles “Wrong Crowd”, “Magnetized”, “Here I Am”, and “Concrete”, and which followed up his 2013 debut studio album, Long Way Down, performed at the Mod Club in Toronto last night with UK folk-pop singer-songwriter … Continue reading