Date: May 26, 2011 City: Toronto,ON Venue: Opera House Rating: 4/5 If you like your rock n’ roll immersed in grimy filth, the Opera House was the place to be Thursday night. Devoid of pretentiousness, South African rockers Seether skillfully adhered to a back-to-basics sort of rock. Loud and ferociously abrasive, the jam-packed audience
Date: May 13, 2011 City: Toronto,ON Venue: Opera House Rating: 3.5/5 Audience indifference can have quite an effect on the energy of a performance. No matter how talented a band may be, a weak spectatorship has the ability to undermine even the most entertaining show. Friday night’s performance by the Airborne Toxic Event at
Date: April 20, 2011 City: Toronto, ON Venue: Queen Elizabeth Theatre Rating: 4.5/5 It’s highly surreal when one comes face-to-face with their past. I had one such encounter late Wednesday night. As a child of the 90s, I have always held tight to the belief that the music existent during your teenage years will
Date: April 10, 2011 City: Toronto, ON Venue: The Opera House Rating: 4.5/5 Never in my concert attending history have I ever witnessed a show containing such joyful exuberance as the one I witnessed Sunday night. Bouncing and gyrating around as if they were children in the midst of a sugar rush, The Go!
Album: Shirts vs. Skins Label: File Under: Music Rating: 3.5/5 Graham Wright’s Shirts vs. Skins is power-pop at its most casual. Driven by an effortless, free-flowing vibe, Wright’s debut LP (In 2008, he released his first EP entitled The Lakes of Alberta) is a curiosity-piece reveling in simplistic bliss. As is the case with