The Pixies and Toronto have had an interesting relationship this summer. Back in June, the band was meant to open a big outdoor show for Rob...
I just don't get Edward Sharpe and his Whole Shtick. The headliner, Alex Ebert's psychedelic big band took the stage at 9:30 p.m. to rap...
Like most people, I haven't paid any attention to Cake since the early 2000s. But since for a while there in the mid-to-late 1990s they were...
Somewhere around 3 p.m. the sky opened up over the little snatch of grass down at Toronto's Fort York and it looked like the rest of the day...
Framed by Toronto's perpetually under-construction Gardiner Expressway, The Sadies took to the South Stage at TURF as men on a mission. The...
Don't bother telling the crowd gathered to watch Alejandro Rose-Garcia that the man better known as Shakey Graves isn't a headliner. Judging...
The Built To Spill set at TURF was a tale of two bands; the one you got to see really depended on the song. Hitting the stage in a black t-s...
The tireless Jon Langford (billed as "Jon-Boy" for this set) opened up the sunny day with a straight-up bat-shit idea: blues-rock numbers ha...
We arrived a bit late to catch Caitlin Rose, despite heavy rushing and some light tugging on my five-year-old's arm. But we got there in tim...
I brought my young family to a rock festival. Or, more specifically, I brought my young family to a roots festival. I am not entirely certai...
Coming out on stage with an umbrella that he theatrically put away to indicate that the rain had finally stopped, Belle and Sebastian's Stua...
