Photos by: Brandon Lorenzetti – The second and final night of Solaris Festival 2014 at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto featured Skillex, who released his debut album, Recess, on March 14th, 2014 via Asylum/Big Beat/OWSLA/Atlantic, Steve Aoki, who released his second album, Neon Future I, on September 30th, 2014 via Ultra/Dim Mak, German DJ/Producer Boys Noize, French DJ/Producer Tchami, … Continue reading
Photos by: Brandon Lorenzetti – Night one of Solaris Festival 2014 brought Kaskade, Adventure Club, 3LAU, and more, to the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto. Check out our Solaris Festival night two photos here.
Photos by: Jason Hodgins – Canadian progessive metal quintet Protest The Hero, who released their fourth album, Volition, on October 29th, 2013 via Razor & Tie, performed at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with Wakefield, MA-based metalcore band Unearth, who released their sixth album, Watchers of Rule, on October 28th, 2014 via eOne … Continue reading
Photos by: Kevin Leung – Some of Toronto’s best indie musicians joined forces last night at Lee’s Palace for a night of cover songs called Cover Me Impressed. The show, which featured members of July Talk, Steven Stanley, Spencer Burton, Brendan Canning, CATL, Taylor Knox, Ferraro, Whitney Rose and Sam Cash and the Romantic Dogs, benefited both … Continue reading
By: Brandon Lorenzetti – We sit down with Toronto-based trap trio Keys N Krates, who talk about finding the perfect sample, their big break, crazy tour stories, and more, before their show at Uniun Nightclub in Toronto on November 20th as part of the 2014 Hennessy Artistry Series.
Photos by: Rick Clifford – Academy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated rapper and founding member of Southern hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, Juicy J, who will released his fourth solo album, Pure THC: The Hustle Continues, sometime in 2015, performed at The Guvernment in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Brandon Lorenzetti – Toronto-based DJ duo Zeds Dead, who released their fifth album, Somewhere Else, on July 1st, 2014 via Mad Decent, performed at Kool Haus in Toronto on December 20th.
Photos by: Alyssa Balistreri – Toronto-based power pop band Crystalyne, who released their second EP, The Remedy, on November 23rd, 2013 via Alternative Empire, performed at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto on December 19th with Toronto-based pop-rock band Brighter Brightest, who released their debut full-length album, Right For Me, on August 9th, 2011 via Black Box … Continue reading
Photos by: Dawn Hamilton – Toronto-based synthpop band Austra, who released their second album, Olympia, on June 17th, 2013 via Paper Bag, which spawned the singles “Home”, and “Painful Like”, performed at The Opera House in Toronto last night with Chinese Opera, Montreal-based electronic duo Blue Hawaii, who released a new mixtape called AGOR this month, … Continue reading
Photos by: André Varty – New York City-based indie pop band Bleachers (the side project of GRAMMY Award-winning indie rock band fun’s guitarist Jack Antonof), who released their debut album, Strange Desire, on July 10th, 2014 via RCA, which features the singles “I Wanna Get Better”, “Shadow”, and “Rollercoaster”, performed at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto last … Continue reading