Words and photos by Samantha Carcasole Welcome to Rockville hosted in Jacksonville, Florida was such an incredible experience and journey, especially hailing from Toronto. I’m already excited to embark on it again next year. The atmosphere of the festival itself…
Steven Wilson is considered the patriarch of modern progressive rock. He began his musical journey in the early eighties, however, he didn’t find the direction that would inform the entirety of his career until he formed No Man in 1990….
Finally, the warmer weather is up, on us, and that means Electric Island Season Opener is around the corner. On May 20, we kick-off the Electric Island picnic series with Black Coffee, DJ Tennis, YokoO, Ellen Allien and more. Grab…
Canada has bred some of the finest female voices decade after decade. Simply working backwards chronologically from Alessia Cara to Joni Mitchell with several dozen in between, all genres and many languages are represented by Canadian women on the international…
Today marks the beginning of the 36th year of Canadian Music Week (CMW) and Music City North will be out and about for our MCN Night Out! Our focus for our “Must See” artists are acts that we have already…
Live music for a good cause? Sign us up! If you haven’t heard yet, Hope for Help will be launching its first year of their Folk in the Road Festival in support of this great cause. This Family-Friendly Music Festival in Elora, Ontario…
The charming excesses of The Darkness are very much alive and well. Teetering on 20 years since their explosive, and self-deprecating, debut Permission to Land strutted into the public consciousness, the musical landscape has all but left rock music behind….
Preaching the gospel of garage rock, prolific artist Ty Segall performed his latest, and most ambitious album, Freedom’s Goblin, to a sweaty contingent of keen Toronto crowd surfers. The atmosphere was suitably charged at the Danforth Music Hall as on-stage…