live music reviews

There’s bass and then there’s bass. The vibrations being unleashed by Evian Christ who opened for Purity Ring last Friday at Venue must have been

There ain’t no crowd like a rockabilly crowd. Only rockabilly will bring together the punks and the cowpokes, the greasers and the yuppies for a

I first met Jason Lowe when we played on CJSF together in August. With the way he talked about his music, you would think he

Beyond drummer Adrian Erlandsson who joined in 2009, the other four members of England’s Paradise Lost have been playing together for nearly a quarter century.

Sometimes a venue steals the show for the right reasons. And then there are nights when the venue punches your junk. Last night, the Waldorf

I googled “silversun hiccups” just to make sure I wasn’t ripping off another writer, and it turns out, the not-so-affectionate pet name has been used

There isn’t much I like better than kicking off a new month by seeing a show I’ve been dying to see for months, on a

Gang Signs do indeed know how to put the ‘party’ into an album release party. While there were no piñatas or rounds of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey (though

Call it a quirk but I can’t help but show up early for gigs. Ever since I showed up early one night in 2001 and

I feel so fancy when I go to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre to see a show. Out on the town, just me and my sexy…

I know I’ve been to a great show when I walk out of the venue with a new favourite song that isn’t the single on

Let’s start this off with the most important piece of information:  you can listen to the Protomen’s latest album in full, and for free, on