Photos by: Rick Clifford – Academy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated rapper and founding member of Southern hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, Juicy J, who will released his fourth solo album, Pure THC: The Hustle Continues, sometime in 2015, performed at The Guvernment in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Brandon Lorenzetti – Toronto-based DJ duo Zeds Dead, who released their fifth album, Somewhere Else, on July 1st, 2014 via Mad Decent, performed at Kool Haus in Toronto on December 20th.
Photos by: Alyssa Balistreri – Toronto-based power pop band Crystalyne, who released their second EP, The Remedy, on November 23rd, 2013 via Alternative Empire, performed at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto on December 19th with Toronto-based pop-rock band Brighter Brightest, who released their debut full-length album, Right For Me, on August 9th, 2011 via Black Box … Continue reading
Photos by: Dawn Hamilton – Toronto-based synthpop band Austra, who released their second album, Olympia, on June 17th, 2013 via Paper Bag, which spawned the singles “Home”, and “Painful Like”, performed at The Opera House in Toronto last night with Chinese Opera, Montreal-based electronic duo Blue Hawaii, who released a new mixtape called AGOR this month, … Continue reading
Photos by: André Varty – New York City-based indie pop band Bleachers (the side project of GRAMMY Award-winning indie rock band fun’s guitarist Jack Antonof), who released their debut album, Strange Desire, on July 10th, 2014 via RCA, which features the singles “I Wanna Get Better”, “Shadow”, and “Rollercoaster”, performed at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last … Continue reading
By: Mehek Seyid (@whatthemehek) | Photos by: Victoria Charko (@Vanilla_Rx) – The ‘void’ in the Enter the Void tour, which stopped in Toronto on Dec. 18th, seemingly holds all things cool-out, pop, funk, dark and soulful R&B on one stage. Between opening acts SZA and The Internet and headliner Jhené Aiko, there were all sorts of suggestions of what the genre is like these days … Continue reading
Photos by: Dawn Hamilton – Buffalo, NY-based indie punk rock band Lemuria, who released their third album, The Distance Is So Big, on June 18th, 2013 via Bridge 9, which featured the single “Brilliant Dancer”, performed at The Garrison in Toronto last night with Austin TX-based indie power pop/punk band Prince, and Toronto-based pop-punk band Junior … Continue reading
Photos by: Alyssa Balistreri – Toronto-based EDM duo DVBBS, who released their debut EP, Initio, in 2012 via Universal Music Canada, performed at Kool Haus in Toronto last night for the first of three shows.
Photos by: Fernando Paiz (@capaphotograph1) – Brooklyn-based electropop artist Big Data, who is expected to release his debut album, 2.0, in March 2015, performed at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last night with Toronto-based electropop band Brave Shores, which features siblings Jay McCarrol and Stefanie McCarrol, and who released their debut EP on October 27th, 2014, and Toronto-based dream … Continue reading
Photos by: Rick Clifford – Two-time JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, who is expected to release his fourth album, Club Meds, on January 13th, 2015 via Arts & Crafts, which features the singles “Vessel”, and “Mouthpiece”, performed at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto last night with indie rock duo Peregrine Falls, in support of Virgin … Continue reading