Marina Diamandis dreamed of one day having her own band. As the frontwoman, naturally, it would be named after her, though she’d skew her last name with creative license (as I likely just did in those opening sentences). The first…
The collective resume of The Who sadly halved to guitarist and vocalist, Pete Townshend and vocalist and guitarist (there IS a distinction) Roger Daltrey is daunting to type out despite reams of available research. More than a band, this English…
On Sunday, August 18, 2019, P!NK returned to Toronto for the first of two nights of her Beautiful Trauma Tour in the city, which were rescheduled from an earlier date due to illness. The energy in the room was electric…
To paraphrase Carl Newman as he discussed why The New Pornographers would play a show six weeks before releasing the band’s eighth album (In the Morse Code of Brake Lights), he said “Budweiser” alluding to the beer company’s sponsorship of…
Words by Doug Sutcliffe. Photos by Katrina Lat For 2019, Osheaga returns to its old grounds following major re-construction work on Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal. The result; a larger park with increased capacity at the cost of some less…
2019 marked the 40th anniversary of arguably the best jazz and one of the best music festivals in the world. To celebrate, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in partnership with the new Cultural Policy of the City of…
2018 ended well for Meg Remy’s U.S. Girls project. Her album, In A Poem Unlimited, found itself atop many music critics’ ‘best of the year’ lists. Chockful of political and societal callouts, the album delivered its messages via slinky grooves…
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…