Review and photos by Mike Bax Red Fang with support from Torche and Whores. A cool club that holds just under 300 patrons. A relatively easy drive. Sign me up. Red Fang, along with Torche and Whores are currently entering their last week of U.S. tour dates together – ending on December 17th with a hometown…
Category: Gallery Concert Review
Animals as Leaders – The Opera House, Toronto – November 28th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Performing to an utterly sold out venue this evening, instrumental three piece prog wizards Animals As Leaders dominated the stage performing a dozen songs from their four studio albums. Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes and Matt Garstka released The Madness of Many a few weeks prior to this show, and…
Metallica – The Opera House, Toronto – November 29th, 2016
Review by Mike Bax Photos by Aneil Singh metallica.com twitter.com/Metallica http://www.facebook.com/Metallica When touring Ride The Lightning, Metallica played their first Toronto show at The Concert Hall (The Masonic Temple) on January 19, 1985 – a 1200 capacity auditorium. This evening’s Opera House show, with a posted capacity of 950 (680 Main Floor and 270 Balcony),…
Carcass w Deafheaven & Inter Arma – Dallas Night Club, Kitchener November 24th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Praise the music gods for routing this tour through Kitchener! I was thinking exactly this thought as I watched two security guards prop themselves against the edge of the Dallas Night Club stage in a reverse push-up position, their legs butted up against the support rails of the security…
CRX – The Great Hall, Toronto – November 14th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax CRX is the less obvious (but in my opinion, far superior) side project that has spun out of New York five-piece garage rockers The Strokes. Formed by guitarist Nick Valensi, the band features Ralph Alexander of The Dose, Richie Follin of Guards, along with Darian Zahedi and Jon Safley…
Epica – The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – November 6th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Epica returned to Toronto last night to perform a majority of material from their fantastic new album The Holographic Principle, performing 15 songs over the course of an hour and fourty minutes at The Phoenix Concert Theatre. This tour brought Fleshgod Apocalypse, The Agonist and Atmora along for the…
Dirty Heads – The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – October 23rd, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Things I learned tonight: 1. Dirty Heads have a huge, dedicated following. 2. The band’s young, prominently female fan-base are all lookers and seem to enjoy copious amounts of liquor. 3. The band can indeed perform really well live, many of their songs sounding better and heavier than their…
Gojira – Rebel, Toronto – October 20th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Earlier this year, Gojira unleashed their heaviest, and best album to date – a beast of a disc entitled Magma. This evening’s performance at Rebel (formerly Sound Academy) was Gojira’s first stop in Toronto showcasing this new material live, the band playing 50% of the album this evening. There’s an…
Symphony X – Mod Club Theatre, Toronto – October 3rd, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “It’s Monday night, right?” Russell Allen – in disbelief to the screaming crowd before their encore. There was lots of live music to choose from this evening in Toronto. Sigur Ros was playing a sold out Massey Hall, Adele was playing a sold out Air Canada Center show and…
Ash – Mod Club Theatre, Toronto October 1st, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax If there was a running theme for this weekend’s Ash performance, ‘Old Is New’ would definitely suffice. For this early Saturday night Toronto performance from Ash we got their 20+ year-old debut album 1977 performed in its entirety. From Kestrels, we got a slathering of post-modern material harkening back…
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