Toronto

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  Thurston Moore Band

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  A five-song set from the Thurston Moore Band drew largely on their well-received 2014 LP The Best Day, which was a little bit ironic since...

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  Motörhead

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  September has been a rough month so far for the Motörhead camp, with cancelled shows and questions surrounding the health of Lemmy Kilmiste...

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  Lucinda Williams

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  Somewhere around 3 p.m. the sky opened up over the little snatch of grass down at Toronto's Fort York and it looked like the rest of the da...

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  Cake

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  Like most people, I haven't paid any attention to Cake since the early 2000s. But since for a while there in the mid-to-late 1990s they wer...

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  Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  I just don't get Edward Sharpe and his Whole Shtick.   The headliner, Alex Ebert's psychedelic big band took the stage at 9:30 p.m. to rapt...

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  Drive Like Jehu

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  Seminal '90s post-hardcore unit Drive Like Jehu proved that their years spent apart have done nothing to slow them down or hinder the amoun...

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  Safe To Say

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  Safe To Say set the pace for Riot Fest in a big way, opening the day with a grimy, tight and larger-than-life sounding set. Incorporating a...

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  Weezer

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON, September 19

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

  Fervent cheers and hands shaped in an array of Ws erupted from the eager crowd as Weezer emerged from billowing clouds of fog on stage and...