By: Staff – Following the announcement yesterday morning that frontman Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer, The Tragically Hip have announced tour dates for a summer tour, which will support their forthcoming album, Man Machine Poem, out June 17th. Check out the full list of tour dates below. The tour, which will serve as their last ever set of performances, kicks off … Continue reading
Photos by: Justin Roth – The Electric Island Music Festival took place on Toronto Island last night, which featured performances by Jamie Jones, DJ Tennis, Job Jobse, and more!
Photos by: Brandon Newfield – Chicago-based progressive house DJ/Producer Kaskade, who released his ninth album, Automatic, on September 25th, 2015 via Warner Bros., which featured the singles “A Little More”, “Never Sleep Alone”, “Disarm You”, “We Don’t Stop”, “Whatever”, and “Us”, and which followed up his 2013 album, Atmosphere, performed at Echo Beach in Toronto last night with Indian/American electro house DJ/Producer … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini (@AngelMarchini) – Indie rock band The Kills, who will release their fifth album, Ash & Ice, on June 3rd via Domino, which will feature the singles “Doing It to Death”, and “Heart of a Dog”, and which follows up their 2011 album, Blood Pressures, which featured the singles “Satellite”, “Future Starts Slow”, “Baby Says”, and “The Last Goodbye”, performed at … Continue reading
Photos by: Jaime Espinoza – Massachusetts-based indie rock band Speedy Ortiz, who will release their new EP, Foiled Again, on June 3rd, which will follow up their 2015 album, Foil Dear, performed at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto last night with Toronto-based post-punk band Casper Skulls, who released their newest seven inch, King of Gold, on August 14th, 2015, … Continue reading
Photos by: Jaime Espinoza – Canadian DJ/Producer Kaytranada, who released his debut album, 99.9%, on May 6th, 2016 via XL, which featured guest appearances by Anderson Paak, Vic Mensa, Little Dragon, Syd, Craig David, AlunaGeorge, and BadBadNotGood, and which featured the singles “Leave Me Alone” featuring Shay Lia, “Drive Me Crazy” featuring Vic Mensa, “Bus Ride”, and “Glowed Up” featuring Anderson Paak, performed at … Continue reading
Photos by: Rachael Robins – Indie rock band Fake Shark, who released their newest single “Something Special”, earlier this month, which is the first taste of new music since their 2013 album, Liar, which featured guest appearances by Care Failure of Die Mannequin, Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence, Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, and Henry Rollins, performed at the Smiling Buddha … Continue reading
Photos by: Josh Ladouceur – Garage rock band Heartless Bastards, who released their fifth album, Restless Ones, on June 16th, 2015 via Partisan Records, performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto last night.
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – In his speech (and tribute) to Director X for his Special Achievement award, Kardinal Offishall made a key distinction between the MMVAs or MTV VMAs and the Prism Prize. “The MMVAs reward songs. They don’t really care about cinematography or art direction.” But that’s exactly what we were all there to praise … Continue reading
Photos by: Anthony D’Elia – UK progressive trance band Above and Beyond, who will release their fifth album, Acoustic II, on June 3rd, 2016 via Anjunabeats, which follows up their 2015 album, We Are All We Need, performed at Massey Hall in Toronto last night.