Few rappers today can match the knotty wordplay of Rapsody. Most wouldn’t try. It was as a young woman growing up in North Carolina that female-led rap and R&B collided with her formative years. The sounds of Aaliyah, Queen Latifah,…
Subtlety is not a hallmark of The Marcus King Band. At 23-years-old, the guitar phenom of the same name – along with his five-piece back-up band – clocked in a dizzying two-hour show at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall. Light on crowd…
It was an odd year for film, a year that saw the future of cinema more uncertain than ever. However, despite the shift in how we consume our preferred content, there was a wide range of superb offerings demonstrating, no matter…
Anyone grasping to comprehend the charisma of Vancouver’s Manila Grey might have benefited from a trip to Toronto’s downtown venue, Toybox. Comprised of singer/songwriter Soliven and rapper Neeko Francisco, the childhood friends easily filled out the sleek venue, having been…
Neon Indian helped define a certain sound of the decade. The sound in question, jokingly remembered as “chillwave”, was characterized by the embrace of lo-fi aesthetics, drenching pop melodies in reverb and 80’s synthesizers, more or less created in the…
On stage, the hallucinogenic music of Crumb lives and breathes like a liquid light show. Part dreamlike, part nightmare, part warm hug, their reverb-soaked sound wafts rather than lingers. As a reflection of their critical success, the Brooklyn-based outfit –…
Maryland native IDK isn’t afraid to question the meaning of it all. On his major label debut Is He Real?, the 27 year-old-rapper (born Jason Mills) airs his spiritual struggles front and centre throughout its dense 36-minute runtime. Tackling subjects…
Call it what you will, but Zombieland: Double Tap never sits still. A sequel 10 years in the making, here is a movie – just like its predecessor – which lives or dies on the chemistry of its rag-tag characters. For fans…