Review by Mike Bax Photos by Tim Snow and Eva Blue The seventh presentation of Heavy Montréal once again managed to deliver on many fronts. While the attendance felt a bit less than last year, I think the festival’s expansion to three days as opposed to two and the fact that last year’s headlining draw…
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Edgefest Summer Concert Series TWO – TD Echo Beach, Toronto – Wednesday, July 29th 2015
Incubus, Deftones and The Bots Photos and Review by Mike Bax Originally just solicited as an Incubus show, Edgefest Series TWO got amped up a month after the concert announcement with the inclusion of Deftones and LA indie duo The Bots to the evening’s bill. No disrespect to Incubus here, but these three bands, along…
Edgefest Summer Concert Series ONE – TD Echo Beach, Toronto – Thursday, July 23rd 2015
Review and photos by Mike Bax Featuring Milky Chance, Elle King, X-Ambassadors (main stage) along with The Zolas, JJ & The Pillars, The Franklin Electric and Mickey Loves Mallory One of the best things about Edge 102.1 has always been their ability to showcase a diversity of up-and-coming talent alongside some of the established great…
The Tragically Hip – Fully and Completely – The Kitchener Auditorium – June 29th, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax If you grew up along the Toronto locale of Highway 401, and were weaned on the musical Kool Aid served by CFNY (The Edge) 102.1, you couldn’t go through the late 1980s and 1990s and not have some sort of exposure to The Tragically Hip. Love them, tolerate them…
Melvins – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto – June 22nd, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax The Hold It In 2015 Tour There’s really NOTHING like a Melvins’ live experience. Nothing! Regular members’ guitarist/vocalist Buzz Osborne and drummer/vocalist Dale Crover tend to tour with a rotating bassist, and Butthole Surfers’ Jeff Pinkus fills that position on the duration of this tour. Pinkus and Butthole Surfers…
Ministry – Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – June 17th, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “They know how many times you take a shit. They know how many times you wipe. They know how many porn sites you’ve visited. Watch Yourself.” Al Jourgensen Deemed the From Beer To EternaTour, this eight-week long Ministry outing was technically a bonus round of live dates from Al…
Anti-Flag – Bovine Sex Club, Toronto – June 4th, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax When this show was announced I immediately got excited by the prospect of seeing a band of Anti-Flag’s stature in a room the size of the Bovine. Everyone, the band included, knew the evening was going to be a sweaty mess, and THAT was what made it even more…
Elle King – The Drake Hotel, Toronto – June 3rd, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax An intimate evening of comedic sarcasm and dialogue from both Ria Mae and Elle King made for a spectacle that was very special for the attendants of her debut live performance in Toronto. This was (surprisingly) my first time at the Drake Hotel Underground. I knew it was small,…
Ride – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto – June 2nd, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax While some might say the definitive shoegaze-era band is My Bloody Valentine, I’d lean a little more towards RIDE myself. Mark Gardener, Andy Bell, Steve Queralt and Laurence Colbert, the Oxford quartet that produced an assortment of EPs and four commercial full length releases of such utterly sterling material,…
Mastodon, Clutch & Graveyard – London Music Hall, London – May 21st, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “Of all the shows on this six week tour, this one sold out first.” Neil Fallon, Clutch Yet another epic triple Mastodon bill, this one featuring a co-headlining set from Clutch, and my first look at Gothenburg’s Graveyard. Mastodon just may go down in history as a band hell-bent…
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