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…
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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…
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…
Apocalyptica w Dir En Grey – Sound Academy, Toronto – Aug 23rd, 2010
I keep a running list of about a dozen bands that really SHOULD be seen live, and Apocalyptica are definitely on this list. Watching three Finnish fellows shred on cello’s for 80 minutes is something every music fan should experience at least once. The addition of Mikko Sirén on drums a fews back (Sirén is…
Hole – Sound Academy, Toronto – July 10th, 2010
http://www.holerock.net | http://www.myspace.com/hole Hole made it onto the Sound Academy stage in Toronto on Saturday night, to play a live set rife with cover versions to a screaming crowd of fans. In true diva fashion, Ms. Love wasn’t in the venue ten minutes before her scheduled start time. And she blew off her sound check….
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