This concert was different from the ones I’m used to reviewing. For one thing, my birthday landed earlier in the week, and so this would be Day 1 of my birthday weekend festivities (Day 2 and Day 3 will also have concert reviews, stay tuned 🙂 ). This seemed like the perfect way to celebrate my…
Tag: Toronto
Concert Review: ¡Mayday! at Rockpile West in Toronto, ON
¡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…
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: 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…
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,…
Concert Review: Ghostface Killah at Rockpile East in Toronto/Scarborough, ON
Only a year after Ghostface Killah tore down the Kool Haus with five other Wu-Tang Clan members, he has returned to Toronto for a solo show. Ghostface is the one artist I’ve seen the most in concert, as I’ve seen him perform in all kinds of settings over the past five years. I’ve seen the…
Concert Review: Run The Jewels at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, ON
I told you so. Run The Jewels are back in Toronto, filling up an even bigger venue than the last time they were here (not counting the free show they had in Dundas Square during the NXNE Festival). They have released a new album that’s longer and could potentially be more successful than the first…
Concert Review: T.I. at Guvernment/Kool Haus in Toronto, ON
It feels like forever since I wrote a concert review. I wasn’t even planning on going to this show because the ticket prices were too expensive, and I haven’t really been a huge T.I. fan since around 2010; but by the luck of the draw, I was able to win some tickets the day before…
Concert (+Film) Review: Nas (Time is Illmatic) at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto
Nasir Jones is a man who shouldn’t need much of an introduction, as he is often regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time. I had previously seen him perform at my very first rap concert, the 2009 Rock The Bells Festival in Los Angeles with Damian Marley, and again at the 2011…
Concert Review: Tech N9ne at Rockpile East in Toronto/Scarborough, ON
I almost didn’t go to this show, partly due to a tight budget and also because I had already seen Tech N9ne perform just over a year ago (at the original Rockpile West). Luckily, one of the local opening acts was selling tickets at a discount, and I was in turn able to fit this show into…
Concert Review: J. Cole at Roundhouse Park in Toronto
J. Cole has had a lot of success in Toronto. Every time he came here in 2013, he sold out every show he did and had to do extra shows to meet the demand. While I couldn’t get into his one-dollar small-venue show last summer, I got to see him at his second consecutive sold…
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