Concert Reviews

Osheaga 2023 Brought Out the Heavy Hitters

PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2023

Born from the heyday of Montreal's mid-aughts indie rock scene, Osheaga has, over the past sixteen years, transformed into a genre-spanning...

Toronto's New Friends Fest 2023 Celebrated the Subversive Force of Community

PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2023

Started in 2017, New Friends Fest  — Toronto's preeminent (post)hardcore, punk and screamo festival — held its fourth, devastatingly loud i...

Relive Sappyfest 2023 in Photos, Including Mother Tongues, Witch Prophet, Matty Grace and Aquakultre

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2023

Sappyfest returned to Sackville for its 18th season this year, pulling another flurry of magic and mayhem from across Canada from August 4...

Hillside's 40th Anniversary Edition Was a Testament to the Festival's Staying Power

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2023

Hillside Music Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary at Guelph Lake Conservation Area in 2023, and with this edition came another year's...

Fall Out Boy Were Unimpeachable in Toronto

Budweiser Stage, July 30

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2023

To a person of a certain age, Fall Out Boy are an institution of teenage angst, a band that belongs on the Mount Rushmore of 2000s pop-punk...

Mdou Moctar Was Triumphant in Toronto

Phoenix Concert Theatre, July 25

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2023

A beaming grin of gratitude shone on Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar's face whenever he roamed the edge of the stage at Toronto's Phoenix Conc...

Le Festif! Brought Rural Quebec to Life Yet Again in 2023

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2023

I had almost no clue what to expect going into my first-ever experience at Le Festif! in Baie-Saint-Paul. Located an hour and change east o...

Avenged Sevenfold and Alexisonfire Fed on Nostalgia in Montreal

Bell Centre, July 22

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2023

If there are two bands that can pluck you out of reality and drop you back into the weirdness of the early to mid-2000s, it's the Californi...