Articles by Max Mertens

Tuxedo

Tattoo, Toronto ON, May 1

PUBLISHED May 2, 2015

When some movie executives decide to inevitably reboot The Wedding Singer, they should get the members of Tuxedo to portray Adam Sandler's...

Jazz Cartier

Marauding In Paradise

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2015

"My life's been a flight with a lot of delays."   These are among the first words uttered by Jazz Cartier on "Guardian Angel," the opening...

Travi$ Scott / Metro Boomin'

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, March 10

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2015

Several hours before Travi$ Scott and Young Thug were scheduled to perform at the Danforth Music Hall, Toronto hip-hop fans were dealt some...

Heems

Eat, Pray, Thug

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2015

No one should be surprised by the scarcity of guest spots on Heems' official debut album, Eat, Pray, Thug. While his previous releases as p...

Heems Reveals the Personal and Political Direction of 'Eat, Pray, Thug'

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2015

Heems was a member of Brooklyn alternative hip-hop group Das Racist, started his own New York-based label Greedhead and had an accomplished...

Open Mike Eagle

A Special Episode Of

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2015

With last year's Dark Comedy, Open Mike Eagle established himself as an affable journeyman, a high plains drifter scrawling his raps on com...

Fabolous / Dej Loaf

Kool Haus, Toronto ON, January 22

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2015

For the final hip-hop show before long-running Toronto venue Kool Haus closed its doors for good, Fabolous might have seemed like an odd ch...

Cam'ron

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, August 17

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2014

Rarely do rappers get a second chance like Cam'ron. The 38-year-old Harlem emcee (née Cameron Giles) rose to prominence in the early 2000s...