Lineup announced for Toronto’s All Things Go festival
If we’re brutally honest, the Toronto area hasn’t been a good place for staging festivals. There are a couple of exceptions (Boots or Hearts, a couple of EDM events), but
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Basia Bulat, Whitehorse, Joel Plaskett among those joining Peterborough Folk Festival
Canada’s longest-running free folk festival is gearing up for its 36th year, bringing together great artists and musicians for a long weekend of great times. This year’s Peterborough Folk Festival,
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There’s a Netflix documentary on the Astroworld festival tragedy
On November 5, 2021, Travis Scott was the headliner at the Astroworld festival in Houston. Before his set was over, dozens were injured and ten people lost their lives. This
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Here’s the preliminary lineup for the 2025 Burlington Sound of Music Festival
Burlington, Ontario, Sound of Music is one of Canada’s great (mostly) summer music festivals. Set for June 12-15, this year’s lineup features Big Wreck, David Wilcox, Steven Page, Junkhouse, Julian
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Massive Attack is staging a gig tomorrow that they hope will change the world
Massive Attack cares greatly for the future of the planet, so they’re trying something pretty ambitious. Tomorrow (August 25), they’re holding an all-day gig called Act 1.5 in Bristol, England.
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Thousands of Billy Talent fans stormed the fences at a concert in Niagara
Over the Canadian August long weekend, Billy Talent played a free show in Port Colborne, Ontario, as part of a festval called Canal Days. About 10,000 people were expected. That’s
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This is the DUMBEST piece of merch I’ve ever seen. It’s not even close.
There are too many stupid people on this planet with too much damn money. (I’m looking at you, you inbred, overbred Silicon Valley tech bro poodles). You know the kind
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Ottawa’s CityFolk lineup has been announced
[Ottawa is one of the few Canadian cities than seem to be able to reliably stage summer music festivals. Along with Bluesfest in July, there’s the CityFolk Festival. Correspondent Ross
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Here’s the final lineup for the 2024 CMW Festival
Canadian Music Week (CMW) is set to start in Toronto on June and continue until the 8th. The lineup for the accompanying music festival has been announced. Here’s the poster.
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There’s a new alt-rock summer festival for Ontario
Outside some small feisty events, Ontario has been something of a dead zone for summer rock festivals. That’s changing with Republic Live. They’ve announced a new festival called All Your
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Uncharted: Music and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 011: The Truth About the Rolling Stones and Altamont
By 1965, change was in the air. A new generation of young people was coming of age, and they did not want what their parents did. Theirs was the counterculture,
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