Archive for the ‘Concert Reviews’ Category
The Babies @ The Silver Dollar
In true Brooklyn fashion, The Babies lo-fi approach took over the Silver Dollar room on Tuesday. Their psych-inspired garage rock tends to tip the pop scales. Repetitive hooks and catchy riffs keep their sound fairly simple, but in certain moments the band opens up and approaches a fullness that leaves you wanting more. Sharing songs off their…
Akron/Family stopped off to feed Toronto’s insatiable psych appetite on Friday (or maybe its just us?). With their loose improvisation and guided noise we were quickly zoned in to the sound and movement. The psychedelic barrage laced with folk, inspired songwriting and melodies had the Lee’s Palace crowd lost in the fully immersive set. Their songs are a…
Wolf People treated a sold out crowd at East London’s Sebright arms to one of the best rock shows the venue has seen this month, in support of their latest record Fain out at the end of this month (April 30) via JagJaguwar. As subjective as that statement may be, their deep-rooted rock and roll jam style…
Chicago sibling duo Wild Belle brought a bit of blues pop to London last week. Check out some of the photo highlights!
It has been an uphill climb but we are finally recovered from the whirlwind that is CMW. With our new found rest we bring you the second half of our festival roundup. Friday The Sirius XM Indies @ The Kool Haus We kicked off the CMW weekend at the Indie awards, which always bring together…
Canadian Music Week is quickly becoming a force for success in Toronto, Canada and internationally. Featuring thousands of artists at over 60 venues, and fielding a music, film, and comedy festivals, a digital media summit and the three day CMW conference, there is no shortage of music to see or connections to make. Falling just…
Brooklyn-based Parquet Courts are giving garage punk a resurgence in a big way. After playing their debut album Light Up Gold on repeat for the past couple of months, we headed over to our neighbourhood Shacklewell Arms last Wednesday (March 20) to see if these guys would live up to everything we (and the sold out crowd) hoped they would…
It’s the best when a support band isn’t really a support band at all. That’s what the sold out crowd at The Forum was treated to last Thursday night (March 14) when Grace Potter & the Nocturnals opened up for The Avett Brothers. We’ve been longtime fans of Grace Potter and her remarkable Nocturnals, yet…
Photos by Guille Lasarte The White Album, perhaps the most handsomely bearded band at the moment, played at London’s Slaughtered Lamb on Tuesday night. While the Danish trio may look like brothers, the three bandmates are great friends, and have been making music together for ages. The dark lighting in the basement venue seemed to…
Foxygen and Unknown Mortal Orchestra played to a packed house at Wrongbar on Monday in Toronto. Foxygen’s We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is already quite likely land near the top of our best of 2013 list. Their live show was solid but lacked some of the sound quality and cohesion we’ve fallen…
