Concert Reviews

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  Slipknot / Volbeat / Gojira / Behemoth

  Budweiser Stage, Toronto ON, August 20

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

  "We've been at this for 20 years! It hasn't always been easy, but looking at all of you here tonight, I can safely say we'll be doing it fo...

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  Monolake

  MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

  Staged in a posh custom-built pyramid, Berliner Robert Henke's Monolake opened MUTEK's 20th anniversary with the kind of ambitious multisen...

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  Tamayugé

  MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

  Taking the stage in matching blue sack dresses, top knots, creepers, hoop earrings and oversized glasses with pom-poms fixed atop them, loc...

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  EXPANSYS

  MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

  Gabriel R. Drapeau and Guillaume Sauvé capped off the first night working like painters at easels from behind their modular units, tweaking...

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  Shawn Mendes / Alessia Cara

  Canadian Tire Centre, Kanata ON, August 18

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2019

  In the pop music world, word is that Shawn Mendes has been known to put on one of the most electrifying live performances around, eschewing...

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  Beast Coast

  Echo Beach, Toronto, ON, August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2019

  Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane! Nah. It's Joey Bada$$ and the Flatbush Zombies rapping their capes off while soaring, flipp...

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  Beck / Cage the Elephant / Spoon

  Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON, August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2019

  Beck and Cage the Elephant are a generation apart, but they both got their big break with postmodern mashups of slide guitar and hip-hop, s...

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  Fiver Turn 'Audible Songs From Rockwood' Into a Theatrical Production

  Summerworks, Toronto, ON, August 10

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2019

  Simone Schmidt has transformed their 2017 album, Audible Songs From Rockwood, (released under their Fiver moniker) into a stark, affecting...