Category: Music

How Viral Trends Shape the Success of Emerging Musicians

Viral trends, especially on social media platforms like TikTok, play a significant role in rapidly boosting the visibility and success of emerging musicians. Case studies, such as Tate McRae, demonstrate how a viral hit can propel artists from obscurity to…

Billy Talent live at Electric City

Now, I don’t want to be biased, but there’s nothing better than seeing a big-time band in an intimate venue. Billy Talent went stateside to break in Buffalo, New York’s newest venue, Electric City. Playing to a sold-out show, they…

Limp Bizkit Brings a Big Party to Toronto

There’s nothing quite like the deafening noise of thousands of rowdy concertgoers the moment a favourite band from their past kicks into a set. For Floridian nu-metal icons Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst and company had plenty left in the tank…

Expected Highlights for Osheaga 2024

This years Osheaga line-up is straight fire with talent lined up for three days straight in beautiful Montréal, QC. We will be on site taking in the beautiful sounds. From rap and folk to grunge and techno – Osheaga has…

Music Review: SINES’ Gravity

SINES are a dynamic, political, and endlessly cheeky synth-pop project comprised of two artists living on opposite sides of the world: producer, composer, synth nut, and DJ Jason Wann, based in Portland, and singer/songwriter, visual artist, and director Kitty Richardson,…

Music Review: Kaiwei’s Reprocessor

Brooklyn-based artist Kaiwei has been making a name for himself ever since he began releasing his glitchy, experimental compositions on Soundcloud five years ago.  As a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and creator of ambient soundscapes, the music of Taiwanese native Calvin “Kai-Wei”…

A Perfect Summer Night with Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago

Do you remember the 21st night of September?   Maybe not, but I bet you can remember the 23rd night of July when Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire brought their co-headlining Heart & Soul tour to the Budweiser Stage…

Chandra Nair’s “Smile (No Fox Gibbon)”: An Anthem for Letting Go

With his most recent singles, “Lighters to the Sky” and “Pretty,” earning nearly 30,000 streams each on Spotify, pop-rock individualist Chandra Nair has captured both fans’ and critics’ attention. Now, he’s back with another uplifting track, “Smile (No Fox Gibbon),”…

Music Review: POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK’s Veil Lifter

POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK’s fourth full-length release, Veil Lifter, is a tempestuous 10-track Molotov cocktail that channels doom, grunge, hardcore, and thrash into a crushing new record. Following the orchestrated industrial soundscapes of their third album, It Will Come Out of…

Music Review: Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz’s Contrapasso

In a musical partnership that has officially spanned 20 years, Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz have explored a variety of genres and formats, but their roots are firmly planted in folk and Americana. With their latest EP, Contrapasso, the duo…