Quarterly tours and concerts numbering in the hundreds each year was once the modus operandi of Phish. Formed in 1983 in Burlington, Vermont, the quartet cut their teeth playing likely every single college town in the northeast. By the mid-90s, this…
NXNE is 25 years young this year! It has evolved and molted over its lifespan though it seems to have found some stability in format since last year. This year features a great lineup both at their two main stages…
Happy Friday! Friday means the last day of the week! Friday means NEW MUSIC. I’m still working through a backlog of music, so some of it isn’t so new. But it’s still great, in this humble music editor’s opinion. I…
A relatively small, but devout group of people woke up on the morning of April 26 in an eager but different state than they found themselves that evening. Making her long-awaited Toronto debut, ionnalee (born Jonna Lee) took to the…
This week’s New Music Friday is dedicated to Canada’s King of New Music, Dave Bookman. Sadly, Bookie died on May 21. I can’t name another person who did as much for independent music in Toronto and Canada as he did…
Part one of this article can be found here. When I was offered the opportunity to pick a handful of Hamilton Beach kitchen appliances, I knew I had to go deep and look for products that would bring more adventure…
Cooking was among my first hobbies, after tricycle riding and Lego. I was five years old when my mother taught me how to make scrambled eggs. I remember writing up a menu and taping it up to our front window….
Here in the ADDICTED Music Dept., we strive to deliver you the finest in consumable content. Keeping with this ethos, here is the first of at least one podcasts. My hope is that I’ll do many more of these. I…