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Cat Power on her life journey of the last six years: “You ready?”
CAT POWER with WILLIS EARL BEAL and ZIIBIWAN at Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Tuesday (October 9), doors 7 pm, all ages. $36.50-$50. ticketmaster.ca. It’s... -
Jennifer Castle searches for the perfect combination of words
JENNIFER CASTLE at the Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), June 1, doors 7:30 pm. Sold out. Around Christmas in 2016, Jennifer Castle left Toronto and... -
A Productive Cough is the most hopeful Titus Andronicus record yet
Rating: NNNN For over a decade, Patrick Stickles has been this generation’s punk rock Sisyphus – forever embroiled in the struggle, forever putting up a fight,... -
Justin Timberlake’s Man Of The Woods is vacuous, vapid and cliched
Justin Timberlake - Man Of The WoodsSonyPopRating: NNGreat pop music can get away with many things. It can deploy bomb after bomb of cringe-worthy lines,... -
Local Heroes: Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman of Choir! Choir! Choir!
CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! part of TREE LIGHTING CEREMONIES at Eaton Centre (220 Yonge), November 16 and at Shops at Don Mills (1090 Don Mills), November... -
Casper Skulls’ Mercy Works connects big ideas to hooky post-punk
Once the looming, ominous drone of the title track fades away, Casper Skulls send Mercy Works into a dark place. Over the woozy guitar of... -
St. Vincent arrives at another new beginning on MASSEDUCTION
“It’s not the end,” Annie Clark declares over sweeping pedal steel and bold piano on the dramatic finale of MASSEDUCTION. It comes during Smoking Section, a... -
Mappe Of delivers airy folk in spades on debut album
Whitby songwriter Mappe Of’s ethereal debut album draws on the grandeur of nature and spiritual realms through his reverb-soaked folk and fractured narratives about troubled... -
Broken Social Scene are our local heroes ahead of Hug Of Thunder’s release
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE and ARCADE FIRE play the Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), November 3 and 4, doors 6:30 pm. $25-$75. ticketmaster.ca. It’s been almost... -
Six things Partner want to do with Melissa Etheridge while she’s in Toronto
PARTNER with SHOTGUN JIMMIE, RICHARD LAVIOLETTE, DANIEL ROMANO and MISHA BOWER as part of You’ve Changed Records 8th Anniversary at Longboat Hall (1087 Queen West), Saturday... -
Dirty Projectors return with a breakup album
While Dirty Projectors mastermind David Longstreth has said the band’s seventh album isn’t entirely autobiographical, it’s driven by his breakup with former bandmate Amber Coffman.... -
Ryan Adams’s Prisoner is a cringeworthy break-up album
If we’re to believe David Lynch’s concept that you can’t create – or create well, let’s say – when suffering, the idea of the divorce... -
Toronto’s most Toronto band, The Sadies, talk Toronto
THE SADIES with BLUE RODEO at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Thursday (February 2), 8 pm, all ages. $59.50-$79.50. ticketmaster.ca. The Sadies’ musical history is so... -
Neil Young’s Peace Trail goes off the beaten track, veers toward cheesiness
Neil Young’s 37th studio album, Peace Trail, does a good job of confusing and bewildering listeners with its barely realized songs. Most of it meanders... -
Ones to watch: The best of M for Montreal
The 11th edition of M for Montreal stormed the streets of Quebec’s hippest city last week, and there were more than a few acts that...
