Thursday, June 13, 2013 Authentic: Young Rival’s Journey Through Canada – 6:45pm @ Bloor Hot Docs Cinema We don’t often cover films at music festivals, but last year I really enjoyed watching Ages & Stages: The Story of The Meligrove Band. Last Frame Pictures directed and produced that documentary and when I heard they had […]

Date of show: April 17, 2013 Written by: Chiara DiAngelo The latest instalment of the J.D. Originals Presents concert series featured Hamilton three-piece Young Rival. Comprised of Aron D’Alesio (guitar, vocals), John Smith (bass) and Noah Fralick (drums), the band released their sophomore album Stay Young last October and that was the last time I […]

Date of show: August 12, 2011 In August, partially in celebration of buying shots for bands’ first birthday, we attended The Untold City’s free summer show. While The Untold City is known for putting on some great shows in the city, they may have outdone themselves putting together this amazing lineup. We took some photos […]

A year ago we attended The Untold City’s summer show. It was the very first show we decided to cover for the site. It was free and insanely packed at The Boat, which isn’t surprising because the lineup consisted of Hollerado, The Darcys and Clothes Make The Man. Stellar. We bought shots for The Darcys, […]

Date of show: April 14, 2011 Unsurprisingly, Young Rival packed The Dakota Tavern – in fact, the venue was at capacity with latecomers being turned away at the door. They haven’t played in Toronto since the fall and the band has just hit the one-year anniversary of their self-titled debut album. Certainly a reason to […]

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 […]