[Thanks to Mindy Wu for all of this. – AC] Earlier this year, when the announcement of Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars’ ’All The Feelings Tour’ came out, I was waiting breathlessly
Read MoreWith the US midterm elections coming up next month, Tom Morello organized a festival featuring some of his best friends. The goal? To encourage Americans to vote and hopefully tip the polticial scales
Read MoreBack on December 1, 2024, I traveled to Las Vegas to see one of U2‘s shows at The Sphere. In the audience that night were two other bands: Depeche Mode (they were playing
Read More[This is all from Ming Wu. – AC] The last time I saw the American punk rock band Gogol Bordello was at the Toronto Urban Roots Festival in 2014. They were so great
Read MoreAfter getting hammered for the way tickets were sold to the 2025 Oasis reunion tour, organizers of the 2027 tour vowed things would be different. This time, you had to register in advance
Read MoreYou know that an event as big as Back to the Beginning, the final show for Ozzy and Black Sabbath back on July 5, 2025, had to come with a documentary. And it
Read More[A final report from Zachary Resnick and Ross MacDonald. – AC] The final night of 2026’s City Folk Festival in Ottawa saw legends of punk and rock take to the main stage for
Read MoreWhen the NFL season opened in Seattle with the Seahawks playing the Patriots in a Super Bowl rematch, Soundgarden was the halftime entertainment. But for whatever reason, NBC refused to show the performance,
Read More[This one was all Ross MacDonald. – AC] Saturday brought some cooler temperatures to Ottawa and night four of CityFolk Festival. Fortunately, the forecast changed from rain, and the skies were clear all
Read MoreAll the members of U2 were students at Mount Temple Comprehensive High School in North Dublin. It was on a hallway bulletin board that 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr. posted a notice saying that
Read MoreIf you recall, the whole Ed Sheeran/Macklemore fiasco began when Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of both the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, objected to Macklemore’s pro-Palestine comments from the stage over
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