Photos by: Justin Roth – Iconic Canadian hard rock band Rush, who released their twentieth album, Clockwork Angels, on June 8th, 2012 via Roadrunner, performed the first of two shows at Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night as part of their ongoing R40 Live 40th Anniversary Tour.
Photos by: Rick Clifford – Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning Canadian hard rock band Nickelback, who released their eighth album, No Fixed Address, on November 14th, 2014 via Republic Records, which spawned the singles “Edge of a Revolution”, “What Are You Waiting For?”, “Million Miles an Hour”, and “Miss You”, performed at the Air Canada Centre in … Continue reading
Photos by: Rick Clifford – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy-winning pop-rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger, who released his seventeenth album, Ride Out, on October 14th, 2014 via Capitol, which featured the singles “Detroit Made”, and “You Take Me In”, p erformed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night with blues … Continue reading
Photos by: Claudia Kielb – Progressive rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra, who released an EP called Dreams of Fireflies on October 30th, 2012 via Lava Records, performed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night as part of their “The Christmas Attic Tour”, which is named after the band’s 1998 holiday-themed rock opera.
By: Curtis Sindrey (@SindreyCurtis) – Last night as heavy-metal royalty Slipknot burst into “Sarcastrophe” from new album 5: The Gray Chapter (released on October 17th), a sea of black t-shirts surged toward the barricade in anticipation. The song’s gloomy opening notes, pounding drums and frenzied guitar opened the show with a gut-pounder, a reminder that Slipknot will outlast any doubters with the lyrics “Kill, kill … Continue reading
Photos by: Dale Benvenuto – GRAMMY-winning metal band Slipknot, who released their fifth album, .5: The Gray Chapter, their first new studio album in six years and the first to not feature founding bassist Paul Gray and long time drummer Joey Jordison, performed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night as part of their ongoing “Prepare For Hell” tour … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – Stevie Wonder’s 1976 double album Songs in the Key of Life is a masterpiece. A sprawling meditation on America, childhood, family, race and the melodies that tie them all together. It’s his magnum opus and of itself a benchmark in modern music. So when Wonder (64) announced he’d be taking a break from his … Continue reading
Photos by: Matt Klopot – Grammy Award-winning R&B-dance-pop singer Usher, who is expected to release his eighth album, UR, sometime in the near future, which features the lead single “Good Kisser”, which was produced by Pop & Oak (Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Drake), performed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night as part of … Continue reading
By: Daniel Melfi – Yesterday, Fleetwood Mac co-founder and drummer, Mick Fleetwood debuted his new collection of photographs entitled, Reflections, at Liss Gallery on Yorkville Avenue in Toronto. Well known as a drummer, photography has attained something inaccessible by music, says Fleetwood. “It has opened a door of creativity in a way,” many of his photos … Continue reading
Photos by: Fernando Paiz (@capaphotograph1) – UK indie rock band Bastille, who released their second album, Bad Blood, on March 4th, 2013 via Virgin EMI Records/Universal, which features the singles “Overjoyed”, “Bad Blood”, “Flaws”, “Pompeii”, “Laura Palmer”, and “Things We Lost in the Fire”, performed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night with Los Angeles/Stockholm-based … Continue reading