Date of show: September 29, 2010 Brian Borcherdt remarked, “The Phoenix is pretty big, but I think we did pretty well.” Holy Fuck may not have sold out The Phoenix, but the 4-piece Toronto-base experimental band drew a good-sized crowd to the stage. The rest of Holy Fuck is made up of Graham Walsh, Matt […]

[Note: I apologize for the slightly unflattering picture… I think Dustin was saying “cheers!”] Date of show: September 28, 2010 Shot of choice: whiskey Dustin Bentall, and the rest of his crew that make The Dustin Bentall Outfit, play what I’d like to describe as country music on fire. The foundations of his sound are […]

Date of show: September 25, 2010 Shot of choice: they did a shot of jager, but they did say “surprise us” In the spring, I decided to check out the CD release of this band that I had heard only a couple times via MySpace. It was at The Horseshoe Tavern and it ended up […]

[Note: Rachel wasn’t prepared to get on stage for the shots picture, so she was a little nervous. It’s a little blurry, but hey, it was the first band to do shots DURING their set. How awesome is that?!] Date of show: September 23, 2010 Shot of choice: jager Amos the Transparent is an Ottawa-based […]

Date of Show: September 17, 2010 Oh, The Golden Dogs, how entertaining you are. It’s hard not to enjoy yourself when at a Golden Dogs show. They bring a hell of a lot of energy to already energetic power-pop rock tunes. Even better than how they sound recorded is their live show. The vocal dynamic […]

[Note: We couldn’t manage to round up all the members at the same time, but Amanda did get this epic shot of Rob Janson. Not pictured: bottle of Crown.] Date of show: September 17, 2010 Shot of choice: We never bothered to ask because instead of doing shots, we drank Crown Royal straight from the […]

Date of show: September 17, 2010 The Darcys is a band I have been meaning to see for the better part of 2010 and they’ve been on my radar since their 2007 debut release, Endless Water. For some reason, the stars never aligned to make this happen until now. I am full of regret for […]

Date of show: September 16, 2010 We had the pleasure of attending the very first show at Rancho Relaxo put on by The Indie Machine. We want to give a shout out to Dave and Ryan for the great night. We didn’t buy shots for any bands this night, but I think we owe shots […]

[Note: We had some technical difficulties and, as a result, we had to take this photo after they took their shot. Two of the boys so kindly offered to fake it, but clearly not everyone got the memo… so I’m just going to be honest about the whole situation.] Date of show: September 11, 2010 […]

Date of show: September 11, 2010 The Most Serene Republic is a Milton/Toronto-based 6 member-deep kaleidoscope pop band comprised of Adrian Jewett (vocals, trombone), Ryan Lenssen (keys, trumpet, vocals), Sean Woolven (guitar, vocals), Nick Greaves (guitar), Simon Lukasewich (bass, violin), Adam Balsam (drums). On top of these 6 members, they also brought out a couple […]