CMW

Canadian Music Week Gets M.I.A., City and Colour, Tegan and Sara, Neko Case, Television for 2014 Edition

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2014

Once again, Canadian Music Week will be bringing more than 1,000 acts to Toronto for a massive festival in 2014. The initial wave of artist...

Chloe Charles

El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

There was a palpable buzz in the air as singer-songwriter Chloe Charles and her band, among them a violinist and cellist, made the final ad...

Shout Out Out Out Out

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

The two drum kits, two bass guitars and collection of eight synths strewn across the Horseshoes Tavern stage served as fair warning to the...

BadBadNotGood

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

Despite a few years of collecting famous followers and co-conspirators like Frank Ocean, Tyler, the Creator, Pharoahe Monch, and Wu-Tang pr...

Savages

Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

Savages lose a mark for slightly mushy sound on the denser cuts, but as half-hour, pre-debut sets go, the UK post-punks' second Toronto sho...

Donovan Woods

Central, Toronto, ON, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

It doesn't take a feng shui expert, an engineer, or even much of a pragmatist to point out that tables at the rear of a small music venue w...

Light Asylum

Wrongbar, Toronto, ON, March 23

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

In music festivals, as in ketchup, patience is a virtue. Playing the midnight slot of CMW's penultimate night, Brooklyn duo Light Asylum dr...

Persian Rugs

Rancho Relaxo, Toronto, ON, March 22

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

The draw for a lot of bands at Canadian Music Week is the promise of industry bigwigs catching your set and launching you to superstardom....