Review and Photos by Mike Bax Zakk Wylde, a man who apparently can’t sit still, performed three days in a row in Montréal over the weekend. Zakk was booked in to play Heavy Montréal on Saturday as Black Label Society and then again on Sunday performing material off his more sombre release Book of Shadows…
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Heavy Montréal – August 6th and 7th, 2016 – Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal
Review by Mike Bax The best European Metal Festival that is not in Europe. There was no other place in North America offering such a diversified mix of European and North American metal this year than at Heavy Montréal. Put on by Evenko and presented by Molson Canadian, Heavy Montréal attracted more than 30,000 festivalgoers to…
Rammstein w Gojira – Festival D’été de Québec, July 17th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Rammstein kehrt in Quebec in glorreiche Art und Weise!! It’s been 6 years since Rammstein performed the Québec Festival D’été. They returned this year in a much similar fashion to their 2010 appearance, performing the final night of the 2016 festival with Gojira opening the evening this time around….
Interview with Herman Li of Dragonforce – June 30th, 2016
Interview and photo by Mike Bax http://www.dragonforce.com twitter.com/DragonForce http://www.facebook.com/dragonforce Already in the studio working on their follow-up to Maximum Overload, the mighty Dragonforce on July 22nd will release a double disc retrospective of their earlier material, entitled Killer Elite – The Hits, The Highs, The Vids. It will be a 22 track set clocking in…
Duran Duran w Nile Rodgers and Chic – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto – July 13th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax For anyone that arrived late and missed Nile Rodgers and CHIC perform an hour long set of some truly amazing live music, they might not have understood Simon Le Bon’s introduction when Rodgers joined the band on stage to perform ‘Notorious’ and ‘Pressure Off’ mid-way through Duran Duran’s set….
Steel Panther w Diemonds – Maxwells, Waterloo July 12th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “G-O-L-D D-I-G-G-I-N-G W-H-O-R (awkward pause) E” Sung by EVERYONE in the room at Maxwell’s Michael Starr, Satchel, Lexxi Foxx and Stix Zadinia brought their signature brand of Los Angeles glam metal to Waterloo last night for a sold-out performance of epic sing-along proportions. Waterloo was the first show to…
The Balconies video Interview – Toronto – July 5th, 2016
The Balconies interview Liam Jaeger and Jacquie Neville Fred Hamilton Park, Toronto – July 5th, 2016 Interview by Mike Bax thebalconies.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBalconies/ https://twitter.com/TheBalconies
Interview with Priya Panda of Diemonds – July 5th, 2016
By Mike Bax Lead Image photo by Nikki Ormerod There’s a few bands in Toronto that I consider to be a must-see good time, and I consider Diemonds one of them. A five-piece band almost a decade into their career, I got turned onto the band when they opened a Steel Panther show in Toronto four…
Hollywood Vampires – Casino Rama, Orillia – July 8th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax “This is why we don’t own nice things.” Alice Cooper to the crowd after Joe Perry shattered his guitar over one of the speakers at the front of the stage to end off ‘My Generation’. Named after Cooper’s 1970s musicians drinking club The Hollywood Vampires, Frontman Alice Cooper along…
The Balconies – Mod Club Theatre, Toronto – July 5th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax One of my favourite things about living close to Toronto is the easy exposure to a plethora of brilliant musicianship that seems to bleed out of the city’s every nook and cranny. Take The Balconies for instance – a totally energetic and lightning-charged local band that deliver the goods…
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