Photos by: Katie Kuropas – Summerfest 2016 in Milwaukee on June 30th featured performances by acclaimed indie pop band Passion Pit, who released their third album, Kindred, on April 21st, 2015 via Columbia, which features the singles “Lifted Up (1985)”, “Where The Sky Hangs”, and “Until We Can’t (Let’s Go)”, which follows up their 2012 album, Gossamer, … Continue reading
Photos by: Katie Kuropas – Day one of Summerfest 2016 in Milwaukee on June 29th featured performances by Los Angeles-based neo-soul/indie-pop band Fitz and The Tantrums, who released their self-titled third album on June 10th, 2016, which featured the single “HandClap”, and which followed up their 2013 album, More Than Just a Dream, which features the singles “Out of My … Continue reading
Photos by: Steven Ellis – Vancouver-based alt-rock Limblifter, who released their fourth album, Pacific Milk, on April 7th, 2015, which was produced by Ryan Dahle at recRoom and Greenhouse Studios in East Vancouver, performed at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto last night with Toronto-based garage rock band Goodbye Honolulu, and Toronto-based indie rock band Altered By Mom, who released their … Continue reading
Photos by: Rob Harbaugh – The 2016 Electric Forest music festival at the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan on June 25th featured performances by EDM DJ AC Slater, French electronic duo The Geek x VRT, funk/jazz/soul/blues band Dumpstaphunk, UK house music duo Low Steppa, Minneapolis-based indie hip-hop collective Doomtree, who released their third album, All Hands, on January 27th, 2015 … Continue reading
Photos by: Rob Harbaugh – The 2016 Electric Forest music festival at the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan on June 24th featured performances by psychedelic bluegrass band The String Cheese Incident, who released their sixth album, A Song In My Head, on April 29th, 2014 via SCI Fidelity, DJ Navid Izadi, R&B singer-songwriter Gallant, who released his debut … Continue reading
Photos by: Katrina Lat – Sting, who released his newest album, The Last Ship, on September 20th, 2013 via A&M/Cherrytree, and Peter Gabriel, who released his newest album, And I’ll Scratch Yours, on September 24th, 2013 via Real World Records, brought their joint “Rock Paper Scissors Tour” to the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Jaime Espinoza – Writer, musician, actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright, Steve Martin joined AGO Curator Andrew Hunter in conversation yesterday afternoon and explored the iconic paintings of Lawren S. Harris, his influence on 20th century art and the process of putting together the upcoming exhibition, The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris. The exhibition … Continue reading
Photos by: Scott Penner – Day two of Amnesia Rockfest 2016 in Montebello, Quebec on June 25th featured performances by Chicago-based punk band Rise Against, who released their seventh album, The Black Market, on July 15th, 2014 via DGC/Interscope, UK alt rock band Bring Me The Horizon, who released their fifth album, That’s The Spirit, on September 11th, 2015 via … Continue reading
Photos by: Scott Penner – Day one of Amnesia Rockfest 2016 in Montebello, Quebec on June 24th featured performances by pop-punk band Blink-182, who will release their seventh album, California, on July 1st, 2016 via BMG, alt-rock band Jane’s Addiction, Grammy Award-winning alt metal band Korn, who released their eleventh album, The Paradigm Shift, on October 8th, 2013 via Universal, Los Angeles-based … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – The inaugural KOI Fest at the Parking Lot music festival took place in Kitchener last night with performances by Montreal-based indie rock band Sam Roberts Band, who released their fifth album, Lo-Fantasy, on February 11th, 2014 via Paper Bag Records/Universal Music Canada, which spawned the singles “We’re All In This Together”, and “Human Heat”, Toronto-based … Continue reading