Concert Reviews

Freak Heat Waves + Brazilian Money + Phern + Holding Hands @ Drones Club

August 11 2015 // Zakary Slax // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Date attended: August 2, 2015
Photo: Mike Wright

The evening began at 10:52 with a mad dash to the dépanneur. Missing the 11 o'clock cut-off for beer would be a critical mistake for deadbeats like us attending a BYOB show at the Drones loft, and indeed a devastating blow was dealt upon reaching the corner of Belanger and St. Dominique. How could this be, it's only 10:55!? But wait there is hope! If we sprint we can make it to the dep on Mozart! The length of Jean-Talon market felt like miles as we raced against time, only to be twice defeated, greeted by the sign: FERMÉ. What a caloric expenditure for naught, and why the early closure? Because it is Sunday?!

Primus & the Chocolate Factory @ Metropolis

July 27 2015 // Idle Matt // Magazine // Concert Reviews

"Primus Suce!"

Primus & the Chocolate Factory @ Metropolis July 15, 2015 - Presented by Greenland Productions & Evenko

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of The Grateful Dead

July 13 2015 // Robert Portnoff // Magazine // Concert Reviews

The Cineplex movie theatre at the AMC Forum 22 was filled with Deadheads on Sunday, July 5th for the simulcast of The Grateful Dead concert in Chicago. The sixty or so fans were joining, if not in person then in spirit, with the 71,000 in attendance at Soldier Field for the final night of the Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of The Grateful Dead tour.

NXNE 2015 - Heems + Raz Fresco + Bishop Nehru @ The Drake Hotel Underground

June 26 2015 // Julie Zenderoudi // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by Say Media

NXNE Toronto - June 18, 2015

Heems

Counting Crows + Twin Forks @ Metropolis

May 21 2015 // Andrew Wieler // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Friday, May 15, 2015 - Presented by Evenko

The Cat Empire + Current Swell @ Metropolis

April 17 2015 // Carmen Rachiteanu // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by Evenko and Greenland Productions

Carmen from Plebeian Pleasures (Mondays 11 AM) reviews the frenzied night.

The Cat Empire killed two birds with one stone on April 11th, as they offered a second sold-out and stunning performance at Metropolis. Actually, forget "performance". It was a party.

Enslaved with Yob @ Foufounes Électriques

March 30 2015 // Angelica // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by Greenland Productions

Winter drags on in Montreal, and yet the spring touring season has begun. Over the next few months, bands from around the world will stream through our city and make the emergence of the grey tidal wave of trash buried under the ice a little more palatable.

Torche + Nothing + Wrong @ Bar Le "RITZ" P.D.B.

March 26 2015 // Idle Matt // Magazine // Concert Reviews

I've seen Torche twice before. The first time opening for Boris in 2008 (touring for Meanderthal), and the second time opening for Corrosion of Conformity (touring for Harmonicraft). So when I heard that they were finally headlining a local show, I was beyond excited.

Behemoth + Cannibal Corpse @ Metropolis

March 10 2015 // Sean Z. // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by Evenko

I went to go see Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth: A sordid tale

Napalm Death + Voivod + Exhumed + Iron Reagan @ Club Soda

February 16 2015 // Sean Z. // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by Extensive Enterprise

Loud Guitars with a Feeling

The New Pornographers @ Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre

February 10 2015 // Marilla Steuter-Martin // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by Evenko

I fell in the love with The New Pornographers when I was twelve years old. I was an awkward pre-adolescent with truly, utterly terrible taste in music. But then I discovered the Vancouver-based indie rockers and their 2003 sophomore album, Electric Version, and I knew I found something special.

Samson and Dalilah by Camille Saint-Saëns

January 26 2015 // Erica Bridgeman // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Presented by l'Opéra de Montréal

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Samson and Delilah, a brief summary of the story as presented in the opera will precede the review of the show:

Act 1 – A Square in Gaza
The Hebrews are being held in slavery by the Philistines. Samson, bestowed with incredible strength by God, encourages them to have faith in their God and hope for the future. Abimélech, governor of the city, arrives with guards to mock, discourage and oppress them. Samson beats Abimélech in a fight and encourages his people to revolt. They win and the High Priest of Dagon (one of the gods worshipped by the Philistines) is angered.

Mayhem + Watain + Revenge @ Club Soda

January 26 2015 // Sean Z. // Magazine // Concert Reviews

A Steady Whipping Motion

GWAR @ Corona Theatre

December 18 2014 // Angelica // Magazine // Concert Reviews

GWAR You Experienced?: A GWARticle


Sawborg Destructo taunts the crowd with his saw. Photo by Idle Matt of Radio Fun.

Devin Townsend Project @ Club Soda

December 9 2014 // DJ Spacepirate // Magazine // Concert Reviews

So the Devin Townsend Project was in town on December 1, and I'm sorry to say that if you missed it we are no longer friends. It was way past my bedtime and so I didn't even stay for Animals as Leaders, but you have no excuse. Monday is the new Thursday, after all. In any case, I got what I came for, but now I face a mild dilemma. As the guy who got in trouble a couple months back for overplaying DTP's latest issue Z², it'll be hard for me to write this without it coming off as a love letter, so fuck it. Committing to the form.

Dear Devin Townsend, 

Hevvy Devvy!

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