Festival Recaps

At Music Waste 2023, Vancouver's DIY Scene Continued to Shine Despite All Odds

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2023

Celebrating their 29th year, Music Waste returned to the DIY venues of East Vancouver Thursday, June 1 to Sunday, June 4 for another year o...

Toronto's lavender wild Was the Sapphic Super Bowl

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023

Toronto's inaugural sapphic Super Bowl, lavender wild, arrived at RBC Echo Beach in the nick of time, with the first weekend of Pride Month...

Relive Spring Reverb 2023 in Photos, Including Dizzy, Zoon, Status/Non-Status and More

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023

For the second year in a row in downtown Kingston, Spring Reverb brought a whirlwind of kinetic energy from June 1 to 4, ringing in the new...

FIMAV 2023 Balanced Music, Magic and Melancholy

PUBLISHED May 22, 2023

Though the COVID masks were mostly history and the advertised slate of artists were all in attendance, the lead up to this year's FIMAV was...

Rolling Loud Toronto Was for the Children

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2022

After a summer of anticipation, the first-ever Rolling Loud in Canada has come and gone, and like the end of summer, it resulted in a mixed...

Relive Supercrawl 2022 in Photos, Including the Dirty Nil, OMBIIGIZI and Lido Pimienta

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2022

Like many festivals, Hamilton, ON's Supercrawl enjoyed a glorious comeback in 2022. After going the livestream route in 2021, the festival...

Manifesto Festival's Sweet 16 Was a Fitting Celebration of Their Devotion to Community — Headliner Drama Be Damned

Budweiser Stage, August 12

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2022

Following a rough weekend for events in Toronto, Manifesto delivered a successful festival, despite it not being the show they initially pr...

Drake, Nicki and Wayne's Young Money Reunion in Toronto Was Worth the Wait, Despite Some Missing Pieces

Budweiser Stage, August 1

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2022

The Young Money reunion show in Toronto — as part of Drake's October World Weekend concert series, and co-starring Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayn...