Words and Photos by Darryll Magboo Isabel LaRosa made her Danforth Music Hall debut on May 4th – never repeating venues for every visit, this would also be her 4th time performing in Toronto. The city’s edition of her Psychopomp Tour…
Dreamy-indie-rock-pop band makes a two-night Toronto stand. In support of the band’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), released on March 21, 2025, Japanese Breakfast does the double on May 5 and 6 at Toronto’s Massey Hall. Fronted…
Words and Photos By Darryll Magboo The Velvet Underground was buzzing with anticipation on April 22 as L.S. Dunes prepared to take the stage. After killer opening sets from From Indian Lakes and Night Sins, the crowd was fired up…
WORDS AND PHOTOS BY DARRYLL MAGBOO Beth Gibbons stepped onto the foggy, dimly lit stage at Massey Hall on April 6th to a wave of gracious applause—a fitting welcome for a legend long absent from the stage. Performing in…
Fans eagerly lined up outside History Toronto on April 1, 2025, for Hwasa’s first-ever FANCON TOUR, [Twits]—a highly anticipated stop. Groups of fans huddled together, chanting Hwasa’s name and singing along to her biggest hits, voices filling the streets with…
Words and photos by Nicholas Vallee-Tourangeau. Neal Francis played The Axis Club on March 22 and showed exactly why he is considered one of the greatest live performances in the modern era of rock. Playing in front of a sold-out…
As part of their Enough of the Sweet Talk Tour, Lime Cordiale visited Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall on March 5th. Show openers included The Haileys and The Orphan The Poet. The Haileys, a girl group from Winnipeg that all have…
Indie rock’s premier songwriter hits the road in support of his 6th studio album. Josh Tillman seems past his hilarious trolling days where anyone and anything, himself included, was a target. Cracking the indie singer/songwriting mold with Fear Fun in…
Early 2000s singer/songwriter shows how he’s every bit the vital artist 25 years later My personal connection with David Gray’s music occurred during the explosion of White Ladder in 2001. Chockful of hits like Please Forgive Me, Babylon, Sail Away, This…
Every time I have attended an Arkells concert it seems more and more has been added to their extravagant live shows. With their horn section and backup singers, you can’t help but smile ear-to-ear in the crowd. The Arkells brought…