Photos by: Neil Van – Swedish doom metal band Ghost (Ghost B.C., as they call themselves in North America due to legal reasons), who we were first introduced to at Coachella in April, brought their eccentric on-stage performance to The Opera House in Toronto last night with support from Los Angeles-based metal trio Ides of Gemini. … Continue reading
Photos by: Nim Mendoza – Edmonton electronic duo Purity Ring performed at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on Sunday with Montreal’s Blue Hawaii.
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – New Jersey-based punk/indie rockers Titus Andronicus performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto last night with Brooklyn-based punk rockers The So So Glos and Toronto-based punk quartet PUP (formerly Topanga).
Photos by: Lauren Garbutt (@LaurenGarbutt1) – The fifth annual In The Soil Festival took place in St. Catharines last weekend and the three-day festival was full of both industry veterans like Toronto-based indie rock/alt-country quartet The Sadies and local musicians like grunge/country singer Phil Bosley, experimental folk-blues group Oak and Elm and folk-rock trio Paper Bag Palace. … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – St. John’s Newfoundland indie folk rockers The Burning Hell performed at The Silver Dollar in Toronto last night with support from country singer Nick Ferrio & His Feelings, and EONS, which serves as Matt Cully’s (Bruce Peninsula) solo project.
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – LA-based brother and sister folk duo He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister performed at The Horseshoe Tavern last night with support from Toronto-based River Tiber (pronounced “River Tye-ber”), featuring singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tommy Paxton-Beesley.
Photos by: Lauren Garbutt (@LaurenGarbutt1) – St Catherines indie-pop quintet Lambs Become Lions performed at Mansion House in St Catherines last night with support from The Atlantic.
By: Alex Curley (@CurleyAlex) – A large crowd gathered at Toronto’s Kool Haus as lights spun in a dizzying display, whirling like stars in a galactic waltz. As overhead monitors displayed a live feed from Montreal and Vancouver, where people gathered for the same event, the country was abuzz. Samsung’s social media team worked overtime … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – Post-industrial/electronica quartet How To Destroy Angels, which features Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, his wife, former West Indian Girl singer Mariqueen Maandi, composer Atticus Ross (The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Rob Sheridan, performed at Toronto’s Sound Academy last night in what was their first-ever Canadian concert … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – Etobicoke-based hardcore band Wrong Generation played at the The Etobicave last night, a dingy basement nestled in the GTA, along with budding folk-pop quartet My Man.