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: Shad at Longboat Hall in Toronto (2022.06.16)

An emcee who loves basketball metaphors, Shad came up clutch in the 4th quarter of 2021 and hit a slam dunk with his seventh album, TAO. With COVID restrictions continuing to ease up, he’s been able to tour across Canada and parts of USA all spring, celebrating his new body of work with the fans,…

Concert Review: GZA at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto (2020.01.27)

Fresh off of the Wu-Tang Clan’s extravagant celebration for their 25th anniversary, including a massive world tour that had two stops in Toronto, the documentary series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men, and season one of the live-action TV drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga, it’s time we start celebrating the 25th anniversaries of those classic…

Review: Alternative Symphony Performing Dr. Dre’s 2001 in Toronto

… And we’re back! We celebrated the new year by counting down our top ten concerts of 2019, and are kicking off 2020 by celebrating the 20th anniversary of an all-time classic album. Released in November of 1999, Dr. Dre’s sophomore solo album, 2001, is a timeless masterpiece that elevated Hip-Hop culture to a new…

Concert Review: Rittz at Adelaide Hall in Toronto

  The last time Rittz performed in Toronto, he was very adamant with a club full of Strange Music fans about his plans to leave the label once his contract was up. In the year and a half that’s gone by, he’s since followed through with what he said he’d do, leaving the indie powerhouse…