Saturday, May 10, 2014 Goodnight, Sunrise – Quad Rock Spin Class @ Quad East Hardcore spinners and first-timers (myself included) collided at Quad East for Goodnight, Sunrise’s second annual rock and roll spin class. With instructor Michelene at the front of the class, the band provided a high energy workout soundtrack. It got sweaty – […]

Saturday, May 10, 2014 PKEW PKEW PKEW (gunshots) GROUNDERS Operators

Friday, May 9, 2014 As I sat in the Air Canada Centre before the show started, I began to realize that City and Colour sold out this building, this arena, the ACC. The show started with Dallas Green and company playing mostly songs from City and Colour’s latest release, The Hurry and the Harm, songs […]

Thursday, May 8, 2014 Seas – 8PM @ Adelaide Hall We started the night off at Adelaide Hall to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of local record label Black Box Recording. Featuring many a Moneen alum, Toronto’s Seas got the night off to a low key start with their first song before really sinking into […]

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Angel Olsen – 7PM @ Sonic Boom Prior to their sold-out non-CMW show at Lee’s Palace, Angel Olsen and co. played a short free set put on by Chart Attack down the street at Sonic Boom. Despite some initial discontent from the large crowd due to the late start (the band […]

Tuesday, May 5, 2014 The C’mons – (9:00PM) Toronto’s The C’mons opened up the night. Thanks to frenetic violinist Roslyn Green, the indie rock band’s short set was heavy but much more melodic than I originally anticipated. While set opener “Set a Fire” demonstrated the cool interplay of guy-girl voices between frontwoman Steph Bosch (vocals, […]

Canadian Music Week officially starts today. As usual, we’ll be focusing on the music side of the festival, but there’s film and comedy to see too. The full music schedule can be found here. If you haven’t purchased a wristband, you can do so here, and if you’re just looking to see a show or […]

Saturday, October 26, 2013 After devouring Lobster Eggs Benedict at Your Father’s Moustache (highly recommended!) and restraining ourselves from purchasing all of the vinyl at the Record and Zine fair, we headed out to spend the rest of the afternoon at the Nevado Records showcase at The Company House that came complete with free pizza! […]

Friday, October 25, 2013 KASHKA (11:00PM) Catherine and I met up at Burrito Jax to thaw our fingers and gain sustenance in the form of a burrito before heading over to The Seahorse Tavern for the remainder of the night. The new project of Toronto’s Kat Burns, KASHKA represents a departure from the folkcentric Forest […]

Friday, October 25, 2013 As part of Halifax Pop Explosion, Joel Plaskett performed with Symphony Nova Scotia (conducted by Martin MacDonald) at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on two nights. These special sold out performances featured Mo Kenney and some special guests and friends (David Christensen, Erin Costelo and Bill Plaskett). As you could probably imagine, […]