Photos: Local Natives at Danforth Music Hall
Local Natives’ spring tour kicked off with a bang as the indie rock laureates retraced every echelon of ‘Hummingbird’ and ‘Sunlit Youth’.
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Photos: Bring Me The Horizon, Underoath at Ricoh Coliseum
Bring Me The Horizon’s “American Nightmare Tour” — with Underoath and Beartooth — nearly left Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum in shambles.
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Photos: The Flaming Lips at Rebel Toronto
Wayne Coyne and co. made it weird at REBEL Nightclub as their ‘Soft Bulletin’-heavy set came close to creating a stellar-mass black hole.
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Photos: Tennis at The Horseshoe Tavern
Tennis’ return to Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern felt like a beautifully rendered rift in time as it dug into ‘Yours Conditionally’, ‘Young & Old’ + more.
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Photos: Little Simz at The Velvet Underground
Little Simz’s pre-SXSW warmup was a lesson in hustle and escapism as the 23-year-old unraveled ‘A Curious Tale’ and ‘Stillness In Wonderland’.
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Review: Hater – ‘You Tried’
The Malmö, Sweden outfit go for broke on their debut — sticking lovelorn indie pop to A+ rifts of Jefferson Airplane and post-punk revival.
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Photos: Noname, Ravyn Lenae at The Phoenix
Chicago poet/emcee Noname wrapped up her “Telefone Tour” with a Chi-Town only showcase that finessed in colour and rhyme.
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Tennis: Solitude And Sonic Landscapes
The Denver indie-pop duo talk to Leah Beresford about ‘Yours Conditionally’, facing fears, and adding a sense of self to romantic love songs.
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Photos: Every Time I Die at The Opera House
ETID’s long-awaited return to The Opera House underlined ‘Low Teens’ and a mind-numbing collection of one-offs and inescapable chaos.
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Photos: Thundercat at Danforth Music Hall
Stephen Bruner’s marquee set at the Danforth Music Hall touched on ‘Drunk’, ‘Apocalypse’, and libido-heightening covers of George Duke.
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