Appropriately dubbed the At It Again Tour, Oddisee and his band Good Compny are back to doing what they do best. Having embarked on their first major tour since COVID-19, they’ve been hitting the road across USA and Canada throughout November and December, and have a European stretch of the tour lined up for next…
Category: Concert Reviews
Concert Review: Method Man & Redman at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (2022.11.05)
Canadian fans of hardcore and classic Hip-Hop are in for a treat this November, as the iconic duo of Method Man & Redman have embarked on a 5-city tour across the country. Kicking it off in Montreal the previous night, this show in Toronto would be just the second stop of the tour as they…
Concert Review: Tech N9ne at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto (2022.10.02)
It’s a new chapter in the lengthy career of Tech N9ne and his record label Strange Music Inc. For years Tech N9ne has been known for griding out an almost never-ending tour schedule, constantly being on the road directly reaching his fans worldwide and putting on one of Hip-Hop’s most incredible stage shows with his…
Concert Review: Coast Contra at The Drake Underground in Toronto (2022.09.27)
There’s a new Fantastic Four team-up making waves in Hip-Hop’s underground. Consisting of the bilingual, Columbian-born Rio Loz, the high-energy Philly native Eric Jamal, and the twin sons of west-coast rap legend Ras Kass, Ras & Taj Austin, the group known as Coast Contra have been building a buzz online and have now been able…
Concert Review: Russell Peters’ Old School Mixtape Live in Toronto (2022.09.24)
The annual Just For Laughs Festival has returned to Toronto, bringing some of the world’s most prolific comedians to the city over the course of ten days. Along with its usual string of comedy shows taking place throughout the city, the 2022 edition of JFL would also introduce its inaugural Street Festival for the weekend…
Concert Review: Wu-Tang Clan & Nas at Budweiser Stage in Toronto (2022.09.04)
When I was a writer at AmbrosiaForHeads.com, we used to curate and host an annual tournament-style bracket called Finding The GOAT, where millions of the world’s most dedicated Hip-Hop heads would vote to determine the Greatest Of All-Time (GOAT) in certain categories. During my time there, I got to see the fan-voted tournament lead to…
Review: Styles P & Friends – “Good Times” 20th Anniversary Show in NYC (2022.08.18)
This may be a Canadian blog focused on Hip-Hop concert reviews in Toronto, but sometimes I’ll be out traveling, and if there’s a piece of Hip-Hop history taking place, I try to make it a point to go see it. While spending some time in New York City, I found that Styles P was putting…
Concert Review: Conway The Machine & Friends at Drumwork Fest in Buffalo, NY (2022.08.13)
Through persistence and hard work, Conway The Machine along with the whole Griselda family have become the most successful collective of Hip-Hop artists to ever come out of Buffalo, New York. Going from flooding the underground with several mixtapes and albums released independently through Griselda Records, to signing to Eminem’s Shady Records for both his…
Concert Review: Young Money Reunion at Budweiser Stage in Toronto (2022.08.06)
After testing positive for COVID-19, Drake’s October World Weekend had to be cut short with the main event being postponed. We saw him host a historic celebration of classic Canadian Hip-Hop and RnB with the All-Canadian Northstars show last week, and the Chris Brown & Lil Baby performance at Budweiser stage proceeded as planned. The…
Concert Review: Drake + All Canadian NorthStars at History in Toronto (2022.07.28)
With many music festivals making their return to Canada in 2022, after the COVID-19 pandemic shut them down for two years, it’s no surprise that Drake is bringing back his OVO Festival to Toronto. Now in its tenth iteration, Drake put a twist on his annual homecoming party to celebrate the milestone and instead made…
Concert Review: Nas at Toronto’s Festival of Beer (2022.07.22)
After being postponed two years in a row from the COVID-19 pandemic, Toronto’s Festival of Beer makes its triumphant return in 2022, bringing one of music & beer fans’ most beloved summer events back to Bandshell Park. The weekend-long festival is known for bringing hundreds of breweries from around the world to taste samples from,…
Concert Review: Rage Against The Machine at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto (2022.07.21)
The Rage Against The Machine reunion tour is finally here, bringing with it the band’s first concerts in Canada in well over twenty years. Dubbed The Public Service Announcement Tour, the reunion was first announced in 2020, when the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among others, sparked mass protests worldwide and brought back…
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