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Relive Sappyfest 2022 in Photos, Including Julie Doiron, Sook-Yin Lee and OMBIIGIZI
PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2022
In the depths of New Brunswick, Sappyfest 17 delivered another hearty dose of swamp magic in Sackville from July 29 to 31. We sent photogra...
Sappyfest Shares Expanded 2022 Lineup Featuring Julie Doiron, Tough Age, Steven Lambke and More
PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2022
Sackville's Sappyfest is returning for its 17th edition this July, and after announcing its preliminary 2022 lineup earlier this month, the...
Transmit Announces Toronto's Do West Fest Lineup with METZ, Sloan, Hot Garbage, Zoon, Breeze
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2022
Toronto's Do West Fest — formerly known as Dundas West Fest — returns to its in-person festivities this year, and Transmit Presents has ann...
Montreal's DISTORSION Festival Announces 2022 Lineup with Holy Fuck, Zoon, Pantayo
PUBLISHED May 19, 2022
Montreal psych festival DISTORSION has announced its 2022 edition, running from July 22 to 24 at l'Entrepôt 77. The Mothland-presented lin...
Wavelength Winter Festival Announces 2022 Online Speaker Series with Keynote Talk by Buffy Sainte-Marie
PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2022
Toronto's Wavelength Winter Festival — now in its 22nd year — is reshaping as an online speaker series for 2022, and today it's revealed th...
The Sound of December 2021: This Month's Essential Listening
PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2021
Very soon, many of us are going to start looking back to the start of the year as we evaluate the year's best music, but there's no need to...
Hot Garbage Free Fall into Electronic Psych Rock Experimentation on 'Ride'
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2021
The psych rockers of modern times are usually blitzed out, acid-taking, guitar-jamming bands that make music at an Adderal-abusing pace. Ju...
Toronto's DIY Music Scene Finally Bounces Back — Thunderstorm Be Damned
PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2021
The small crowd of Toronto music fans who were hoping to end their pandemic-induced concert hiatus last Saturday, August 28, were forced to...