April 23, 2010 – Kelowna’s Yukon Blonde rolled through Toronto last week, and played a packed show at the Garrison on Friday night. Sports: the Band and Fox Jaws opened for the indie folk/rock/pop juggernauts, who have gathered quite the following since the release of their first album. They came out onstage with their long hair [...] Read More

April 20, 2010 – Tuesday nights at the Horseshoe Tavern are well known. For one thing, they’re free, and for another, they’re well advertised as “The Edge 102.1 Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite.” Obviously the fact that there was no cover and the widespread press contributed to the mass of people crowded into the Horseshoe, [...] Read More

Last night was the much-anticipated CD Release Party for Farewell Cool Reason’s (FCR’s) first full-length album, “Panic Don’t Panic.”  FCR had released the album on their Myspace page for everyone to stream, for free, weeks previous to the show. On the Facebook event page for the pre-release, a fan commented that the band was doing [...] Read More

On Thursday night I made my way into College Street’s infamous grimy bar and rock club Sneaky Dee’s. I headed up the stairs, beer in hand, ready for the usual debauchery. But by the time local Toronto act Young Doctors in Love hit the small stage shortly after eleven we had no idea what we [...] Read More