Photos by: Curtis Sindrey – Festival De Musique Émergente (FME) held its 2021 edition in the small city of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec from Sept. 2-5 at various venues, and featured performances by Toronto-based punk trio The OBGMs, who released their new album, The Ends, on October 30, 2020 via Black Box, which was mixed by Grammy and Juno award winning Dave … Continue reading
By: Staff – FME has announced its 2021 lineup. Taking place September 2nd to 5th, 2021, this year’s edition will feature performances by Backxwash, Cadence Weapon, Lido Pimienta, and more as the festival will accommodate more festivalgoers and offer bigger events than last year, all the while complying with sanitary measures in place. New for … Continue reading
By: Staff – The Prism Prize announced today the Top 20 Canadian music videos of the year eligible for the 2021 Grand Prize, as voted by a jury of more than 130 Canadian music, film, and media arts professionals. The Grand Prize winner will be revealed and awarded $20,000 as part of a virtual presentation … Continue reading
By: Staff – Lido Pimienta has released “Te Queria,” the latest single and visual from her album Miss Colombia (out April 17). “Te Queria” is one of the 11 new and original songs on the record, which boldly celebrates Pimienta’s ecstatic musical hybridity of electronic meets cumbia, and is at once defiant and delicate, exploratory and … Continue reading
Photos by: Orest Dorosh – Lido Pimienta has won the 2017 Polaris Music Prize for the album, La Papessa. “Not in English, not in French. But we’re here,” said Pimienta after accepting the award. Held at the historic Carlu in Toronto last night (Sept. 18th), the evening featured performances by six of the 10 nominees, including Weaves, Lido … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – Electronic DJ/Producer DJ Shub, who is best known as a former member of A Tribe Called Red, and whose work with the group includes the JUNO Award winning album, Nation II Nation, and their most popular single, “Electric Pow Wow Drum”, which was streamed over one million times on SoundCloud, 1,585,539, performed … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini (@AngelMarchini) – Toronto-based synthpop band Austra, who released their newest album, Future Politics, on January 20th, 2016 via Pink Fizz Records, which featured the single “Utopia”, and which followed up their 2013 album, Olympia, which spawned the singles “Home”, and “Painful Like”, performed at the Mod Club in Toronto last night with Toronto-based dark pop artist Lido Pimienta. … Continue reading