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Photos: The Queers, The Cola Heads, Plan 37 @ The Horseshoe Tavern

Photos by: Justin Roth – Punk rock band The Queers, who released their newest live album, Ole Maestro, in May 2013, which followed up their 2011 split seven inch with Killtime entitled Alive, their eleventh album, Back to the Basement, out November 16th, 2010 via Asian Man Records, and their 2007 album, Munki Brain, performed at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto last … Continue reading

Photos: DCF, Heartstreet, Sextape @ Adelaide Hall

Photos by: Dan Fischer – Toronto-based indie pop singer-songwriter DCF, who released his newest song “Put Your Name On It”, which was co-produced by Nathaniel Motte (3Oh!3) and Derek Hoffman (Fox Sounds Studios), performed at Adelaide Hall in Toronto last night with Montreal-Based electronic R&B/Hip-Hop duo Heartstreets, whose unreleased song “Head Down High” was used in the popular french-canadian show … Continue reading

Photos: Basia Bulat, She-Devils @ The Mod Club

Photos by: Orest Dorosh –  Toronto-based folk singer-songwriter Basia Bulat, who released her fourth album, Good Advice, on February 12th, 2016 via Secret City Records, which was produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and which followed up her  Juno Award, and Polaris Prize-nominated album, Tall Tall Shadow, performed at The Mod Club in Toronto last night with Montreal-based … Continue reading

Stream the new Tokyo Police Club song “Not My Girl”

By: Staff – Following a four-day online scavenger hunt, Toronto-based indie rock four-piece Tokyo Police Club have released their new track “Not My Girl”, which will be featured on their newly announced forthcoming EP, Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness, which is set for release on April 8, 2016 through Dine Alone Records. With the first instalment of a two-part batch of EP’s … Continue reading

Photos: Lee DeWyze, Wakey Wakey, Leslie DiNicola @ Lee’s Palace

Photos by: Katrina Lat –  Alt rock singer-songwriter Lee DeWyze, who released his sixth album, Oil & Water, on February 12th, 2016, which followed up his 2013 album, Frames, which featured collaborations with Drew Pearson, Julian Emery, Justin Irvin, Shelly Fairchild, Rick Seibold, Matthew Wilder and Toby Gad, performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto last night with Brooklyn-based alt pop band Wakey Wakey, who … Continue reading

Massey Hall honours Blue Rodeo with ‘Massey Hall Honours Award’

By: Staff – On Thursday night (Feb 18), President & CEO of the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall, Deane Cameron, presented Blue Rodeo with the second-ever Massey Hall Honours Award as they kicked off the first of two sold-out shows at Toronto’s Massey Hall. The inaugural award was presented to Gordon Lightfoot in November 2014. The Award celebrates … Continue reading

Holy Fuck announce new album ‘Congrats’

By: Staff – Toronto-based electronica band Holy Fuck will release their new album, Congrats, on May 27th. Holy Fuck took the world by surprise around 2005 because there was just nothing like them-a hardcore thrift-store found-object punk band with a relentless commitment to rhythm and a sense for atmosphere better matched to a close encounter of the … Continue reading

Photos: Frazey Ford, Phil Cook @ Harbourfront Centre Theatre

Photos by: Orest Dorosh –  Vancouver-based Americana/Soul singer-songwriter Frazey Ford, who is best known as a founding member of Vancouver-based folk group The Be Good Tanyas, and who released her newest album, Indian Ocean, in 2014, which followed up her 2010 debut solo album, Obadiah, performed at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre in Toronto last night with folk singer-songwriter Phil Cook, who released … Continue reading

Hooded Fang announces new album ‘Venus On Edge’; Stream new song “Tunnel Vision”

By: Staff – Toronto-based indie rock band Hooded Fang have announced their new album,Venus On Edge, out May 13 via the band’s own label Daps Records. Stream the album’s first single “Tunnel Vision” via SoundCloud. Where once in their career lead songwriter Daniel Lee would have used lush instrumentation or thick harmony to evoke urgency, Venus on Edge gives us Ritalin tempos and sheet … Continue reading

Photos: Young Galaxy, Inside Touch @ The Mod Club

Photos by: Justin Roth – Vancouver-based synthpop quintet Young Galaxy, who released their fifth album, Falsework, on October 30th, 2015 via Paper Bag Records, which followed up their Polaris Music Prize short-listed album, Ultramarine, which was produced by Dan Lissvik (Studio, Atelje, Taken By Trees, Lake Heartbeat), and who commissioned Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novelist/blogger/journalist Sean Michaels to write a story that would work as a … Continue reading