On the first night The Killers played the Budweiser Stage in Toronto, there was a guy down front holding a sign that read (paraphrasing here) “Can I Play Drums for ‘Reasons Unknown.’” Nothing
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Now in its 16th year, Supercrawl is still a pretty fantastic free music festival. Hamilton music people do a great job staging this thing every year. Here’s the schedule for this weekend. FRI
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Billy McFarland, the convicted fraudster who spent four years in jail for the fiasco that was the Fyre Festival, is trying again with Fyre Festival II. Why anyone would trust this guy is
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The first Fyre Festival was such a scam and legal boondoggle that at least two documentaries were made about it and its founder, Billy McFarland, was sent to jail for fraud. Now that
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A couple of weeks back, there was an unexpected (benign yet illegal) incident with a drone during an Arkells show in Winnipeg that resulted in police action. It all ended quite amicably. But
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Oasis took a lot of stick when tickets for their reunion tour went on sale this past Saturday (August 31). About 1.4 million tickets were sold, but not without controversy. Dynamic pricing–a situation
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I first heard of Our Lady Peace when a shy bespeckled kid came into the radio station with a demo cassette, asking if I could listen to it. I’d remember that kid later
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All 1.4 million tickets for the UK/Ireland part of the Oasis reunion tour (yes, there will be more legs) dominated music news over the weekend because of (a) the huge demand and (b)
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At 9 am GMT, Ticketmaster began selling tickets to the 17 Oasis reunion shows in the UK and Ireland. The demand on the servers was intense and some error messages were returned and
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The general on-sale time and date for the UK/Ireland gigs on the Oasis reunion tour is 9 am GMT tomorrow (Saturday, August 31). But, as with all big concert tours these days, there’s
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Last fall, there was a massive celebration of Canadian music heritage at Massey Hall when 13 artists (Max Webster, Prism, April Wine, Chilliwack, Loverboy, and a ton more) were inducted into Canada’s Walk
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