In a bizarre incident at the Virgin Music Festival on Sunday, the evening’s last performance by Oasis was interrupted when Noel Gallagher was attacked on-stage. …
The Foo Fighters returned to Toronto on Saturday night and rocked the Island in true Foo fashion.
The band headlined the third installment of the Virgin Music Festival in Toronto and played a set that lasted over an hour, mixing old hits with new tunes. Frontman Dave Grohl proved that he was the evening’s best [...]
In retrospect, I should have known better.
Hanging all of my hopes for a good evening on a DOOM performance is like getting excited for a rendezvous with a really easy girl. Sure, you hear she’s good… but she’s probably got AIDS.
I should have known better than to think that a guy in a mask wouldn’t [...]
TORONTO—I believe in B-Live.
The Toronto leg of the Bacardi B-Live tour took place at the The Toronto School of Circus Arts on Nov. 3, and the location could not have been more apt as the combination of 2000 fans, three DJs and a night of unforgettable music made for an evening unlike any other.
Known as [...]
TORONTO—On a night that was supposed to be about returning Pumpkins that Smashed, Sunday’s Virgin Music Festival in Toronto turned out to be all and only about The Killers.
The Las Vegas quartet who have said that The Smashing Pumpkins were one of their musical influences easily outdid their returning muses by electrifying the crowd with [...]
TORONTO—We’re not Virgins anymore.
The Virgin Music Festival returned to Canada today for its second stint at Toronto’s Island Park.
With the crowd steadily filling in as the afternoon wore on, it took almost no time at all for the park to be consumed by excited music lovers.
The show began strongly as one of the [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve given new hip-hop a serious listen. Growing up I couldn’t get enough of Rakim and Slick Rick, but as the new millennium opened, glam hip-hop and retreat themes from the earlier years really turned me off to the point that when Pun died (even in the decline of hip-hop, [...]
It’d been a while since I’d last seen a hip-hop show in Chicago. Yes, I was able to check out Open Mike Eagle’s crew back in May while in L.A., but the last time I paid to see a hip-hop show at home was back in 2002, when I saw Del The Funkee Homosapien. [...]
On Monday, I went to see Type O Negative at the Metro in Chicago. It was an all-ages show with supporting acts Brand New Sin and Celtic Frost. Luckily, the Cubs had a day game, and had already gotten their loss out of the way by 6:30pm, so parking wasn’t nearly as terrible [...]
I am never going to see a live show in a venue that holds more than 200 people ever again. It has nothing to do with the bands or the locations; it is the crowds the come to these shows that make me wish to become a musical hermit. Saturday night I experienced [...]