I’m Pretty Sure We Partied: Four Nights with The Hold Steady
By: Saman Jafarian It’s April 9, 2014, and I’m at Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Hall for a Hold Steady show—the second I’ve attended this year, and the twelfth in total. On […]
Category Archives: Music
One Word To Operation Chaos: Constantines
By: Dan and Patrick Grant Back on October 2nd and 3rd, one of Toronto’s seminal bands blew the doors off the Danforth Music Hall. Celebrating the tongue in cheek ‘11th […]
Blonde Ambition: Is Lowell Ready for Her Close-up?
By: Scott Alic Lowell is having a 2014 that any aspiring musical artist would kill for, and it was an act of murder that got her there. That unpleasantry out […]
Is It Good? Caribou’s Our Love
By: Daniel Reynolds With so many new TV shows, movies, books and music coming out these days, sometimes staying culturally literate can be exhausting. To help sift through it all, we […]
This is Jennifer Castle’s City
By: Scott Alic She stands alone on stage, armed only with a deep-red, large-bodied guitar: a 1969 Harmony Rocket that she has described as “well-loved, despite being almost nothing but […]
The Beach Boys: Love, Mercy & Occasional Redemption
By: Dennis Reynolds Over the past five decades, Brian Wilson has been a lot of things: a genius, a victim, a recluse, and most recently, a survivor. As a pop […]
Hey, Ho, Let’s Go (Quietly into the Afterlife)
By: Patrick Grant It’s hard to imagine what it must have felt like to live in a world without rock n’roll. There’s little to be said that hasn’t been regarding […]
Ought Dares to Care
By: Scott Alic “Today, more than any other day, I am excited for the milk of human kindness. And today, more than any other day, I am excited to go […]
Viet Cong Emerge from the Shadow of Women
By: Scott Alic On a quiet, dark stretch of College St, blocks west of World Cup revellers celebrating Columbian and Uruguayan victories on the Little Italy strip, sits the Smiling […]
Glory Days: Some Thoughts On American Misery 30 Years Later
By: Patrick Grant Remember Y2K? I don’t really. My association with the potential worldwide collapse at the turn of the millennium really boils down to one strong memory of a […]
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