¡Mayday! is currently on their Future/Vintage Tour to promote their upcoming album of the same name, due to be released August 21, 2015 via Strange Music (check the new single I covered on Ambrosia For Heads). More importantly, they’re on their first ever tour in Canada, starting out west in Vancouver and travelling east to…
Category: Concert Reviews
Concert Review: Shad & Ty Dolla $ign at the 2015 NXNE Festival in Toronto
Oh, the controversy surrounding this concert. Where to begin… North By Northeast, or NXNE for short, is an annual music festival that brings hundreds of artists to Toronto every June. There are many wristband and ticketed concerts put on throughout the city during the one-week festival, and it’s all capped off with a set of free, public concerts…
Concert Review: System of a Down at The Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto
I know. This is a Hip-Hop blog, and on a night where Shad was performing for free at Burlington’s Sound of Music Festival, and Dipset‘s reunion tour was supposed to reach Toronto’s Sound Academy (cancelled due to border crossing issues), I decided to branch out and cover a Heavy Metal concert instead. I don’t listen to a lot…
Concert Review: Raekwon at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, ON
Toronto is getting a lot of love from the Wu-Tang Clan in 2015, as we’ve already had two shows from Ghostface Killah (one with BadBadNotGood and one with GZA & Cappadonna), and now get to see Raekwon the Chef. 2015 is also a big year for Raekwon, as he is set to go on tour in the U.S. with…
Concert Review: Non Phixion at Rockpile West in Toronto, ON
Non Phixion is a group from Brooklyn, New York consisting of MCs Ill Bill, Goretex, Sabac, and DJ Eclipse, and they’re currently on their 20th Anniversary Reunion Tour. Although the group was formed in 1995, their debut album, The Future Is Now came out in 2002, and it’s the only album of theirs I’ve heard. The…
Concert Review: Ghostface Killah, GZA & Cappadonna at The Opera House in Toronto
We started 2015 off with Ghostface Killah and BadBadNotGood at The Opera House, and just as he told the crowd at that show, we’re right back here again to start the second quarter of the year with Ghostface at the same venue. Rather than bringing his Sour Soul collaborators BBNG, Ghost has brought some Wu-Tang Clan…
Concert Review: Shad at Massey Hall in Toronto
Arguably Canada’s best MC, Shad is back with another big-time event: a concert at the revered Massey Hall to celebrate 10 years of being a professional artist. Shad has come a long way; using the winnings from a talent competition to record his debut album When This Is Over in 2005, winning a Juno Award…
Concert Review: Logic at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto
Logic is a newer Hip-Hop artist from Maryland, USA, who is on his Under Pressure World Tour to support his major-label debut album of the same name. I have reviewed Under Pressure before, and while it did have its flaws, Logic shows enough upside and potential as an MC to spark my interest. He also…
Concert Review: PRhyme (Royce Da 5’9″ & DJ Premier) at Tattoo in Toronto
After forming a group and releasing one of the best Hip-Hop albums of 2014 just a couple months ago, Royce Da 5’9″ and DJ Premier have gone on tour together to promote their PRhyme album. While this is their first album working together as PRhyme, Royce and Premo are both legends in this genre, each having been…
Concert Review: Talib Kweli at Rockpile West in Toronto
About a year and a half since his last show in Toronto, Talib Kweli has returned, this time for a small-venue concert at Rockpile West. This would be my fourth time seeing Talib Kweli perform, and each time has been slightly different. I first saw him at my very first rap concert, the 2009 Rock…
Concert Review: BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah at The Opera House in Toronto
Don’t you just love it when something great happens that you didn’t plan for, and it fits perfectly with everything else going on in your life? That’s exactly what happened here, as this isn’t even one of the four shows I said I had planned in my previous blog post, but it came together at…
The Top 10 Concerts I Attended in 2014
I’d like to thank everyone who’s supported this blog and anyone who has ever read any of my articles! This is the first full calendar year I’ve had SYpherSights running, so this time I have concert reviews written for every show on the list. While I couldn’t attend every single hip-hop show in the city,…
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