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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
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Kingston, Pennsylvania-based indie rock band Title Fight, who released their third album, Hyperview, on February 3rd, 2015 via ANTI-, which was produced by Will Yip (Lauryn Hill, Circa Survive, The Wonder Years, The Fray, Keane), performed at the Velvet Underground in Toronto last night with hardcore punk band Give, who released their newest album, Electric Flower Circus, … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – New Jersey-based hardcore punk band Old Wounds, who released their newest album, The Suffering Spirit, on June 30th, 2015, which followed up their May 2015 spilt with The Banner, performed at the Dance Cave in Toronto last night with Kitchener, ON-based metalcore band Exalt, who released their newest album, Pale Light, on … Continue reading
By: Staff – Budweiser and Live Nation Canada today announced that Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre concert venue will be renamed Budweiser Stage beginning this summer. “The Budweiser brand has a long association with music in Canada and around the world, and we look forward to continuing to grow and evolve our music presence in collaboration with Live Nation. Our … Continue reading
Photos by: David McDonald – Maryland-based hard rock band Clutch, who released their eleventh album, Psychic Warfare, on October 2nd, 2015 via Weathermaker, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with singer-songwriter Mike Dillon, who is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool’s Fancy Band and Garage A Trois, and who has performed with many musicians including Ani DiFranco, Galactic, and Brave Combo, and Los Angeles-based … Continue reading
Photos by: Mike Nguyen – Day one of Solaris Festival 2016 took place last night at Rebel in Toronto, which featured performances by Electro house DJ/Producer Zedd, who released his second album, True Colors, on May 15th, 2015 via Interscope, Los Angeles-based DJ/Producer Jauz, Toronto-based DJ/Producer Mark Oliver, who was the last ever performer at the now-demolished Guvernment music … Continue reading
