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Photos by: David McDonald – Canadian country music artist Brett Kissel, who released his sixth album, Pick Me Up, on September 11th, 2015 via Warner Music Canada, which was co-produced by Mickey Jack Cones (Lionel Richie, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood), and which featured the singles “Airwaves”, “Pick Me Up”, “Cool with That”, “I Didn’t Fall in Love with Your Hair”, and “She’s … Continue reading
Photos by: Jessie Lau – Chinese singer-songwriter Leah Dou, who is the daughter of Chinese musicians Dou Wei and Faye Wong, and who released her debut EP, My Days, on April 27th, 2016 via Universal Music Japan, which followed up her 2016 debut album, Stone Cafe, performed at Adelaide Hall in Toronto last night with Guelph, ON-based singer/songwriter NEFE, who won the … 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
Photos by: Julian Avram – Juno Award winning Canadian rock band, Sam Roberts Band, who released their sixth album, TerraForm, on October 28th, 2016, which was produced by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck, Alvvays, Viet Cong, METZ), and which followed up their 2014 album, Lo-Fantasy, performed at Rebel in Toronto last night with Toronto-based indie rock band Hollerado, who released their newest single “Born Yesterday” on January … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Los Angeles-based synthpop band Cold Cave, who released a new two-song seven inch, titled The Idea of Love, on September 9th, 2016 via Heartworm, which featured the eponymous A-side track, and which followed up his 2011 album, Cherish the Light Years, which featured contributions by Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw), and Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), performed a … Continue reading
By: Staff – Timber Timbre’s music has always traced a shadowed path, using cues of the past to fuse the sound of a distant, haunted now. On its fourth record – Sincerely, Future Pollution – Timber Timbre coats the stark, sensual sound of 2014’s Polaris Music Prize Short-Listed and JUNO Award-nominated album Hot Dreams in an oil-black rainbow of municipal grime. It is the cinema … Continue reading
Photos by: Clayton Mackney – R&B/Soul singer-songwriter Khalid, who has released nine original songs, including: “Reasons”, which was produced by Ducko McFli, ”Hopeless”, “Location”, “Would You”, “Stuck On U”, “Saved”, and “Coaster”, along with a cover of Frank Ocean’s “Lost”, performed at the Velvet Underground in Toronto last night with Toronto-based electronic/pop/R&B/soul artist McCallaman, who released his debut EP, Black Pop, in … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Steve Gunn, who was formerly a guitarist in Kurt Vile’s backing band, The Violators, and who released his newest album, Eyes on the Lines, on June 3rd, 2016 via Matador, which followed up his 2015 album, Steve Gunn/Kurt Vile, in 2015, performed at the Great Hall in Toronto last night with singer-songwriter Lee Ranaldo, … Continue reading
Photos by: Francesca Ludikar – Huntington Beach, CA-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish, who released a Christmas-themed EP called Happy Skalidays on December 12th, 2014, which followed up their 2012 album, Candy Coated Fury, which featured guest vocals from Coolie Ranx, Brian Klemm, Julie Stoyer, and members of Sonic Boom Six, performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto … Continue reading
By: Staff – Toronto-based indie folk-rock band The Wooden Sky will release their new album Swimming in Strange Waters on April 7th via Nevado Records. Drawing its title from a line in Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune – “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water” – The Wooden Sky’s fifth full-length record finds frontman and multi-instrumentalist Gavin Gardiner struggling to come to … Continue reading
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