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Bjork @ Echo Beach, Toronto (July 16, 2013) 3 Aug 2013 | 08:52 am
Bjork @ Echo Beach, Toronto: photo by Michael Ligon Bjork. Echo Beach. Warm summer night. The all-female Icelandic choir Graduale Nobili. Tesla Coil. Video projections. Starfish. Landscapes. Thi...
Eleanor Friedberger, Teen @ Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto (June 5, 2013) 2 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
Teen: photo by Michael Ligon Let's time warp back to the beginning of June when a NYC double-bill took over the Horseshoe Tavern, with the Brooklyn-based band TEEN opening for Eleanor Friedberger....
Toronto Urban Roots Festival @ Fort York Garrison Common (July 6 & 7, 2013) 21 Jul 2013 | 02:44 am
Frank Turner: photo by Michael Ligon I'd already started the first two days of TURF missing the first openers each day and the weekend was no different. I didn't have the motivation to start the l...
Toronto Urban Roots Festival @ Fort York Garrison Common (July 4 & 5, 2013) 17 Jul 2013 | 02:07 am
Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura: photo by Michael Ligon The inaugural Toronto Urban Roots Festival, TURF for short, had a successful first run about a week and a half back down at Fort York G...
Smokey Robinson @ Toronto Star Stage, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto Jazz Festival (June 21, 2013) 3 Jul 2013 | 09:52 am
Smokey Robinson: photo by Michael Ligon When Martin Fry and Mark White of the UK pop band ABC released their hit song "When Smokey Sings" (a tribute to the Motown living legend Smokey Robinson) bac...
Review - NXNE (June 15, 2013) 2 Jul 2013 | 12:02 am
On this fine Canada Day I thought take some time to get up my last slice of NXNE reviews for Saturday June 15. After taking some time out from NXNE for a relaxing afternoon set from Sarah Haremer who ...
Sarah Harmer (Luminato Festival) @ David Pecaut Square, Toronto (June 15, 2013) 27 Jun 2013 | 09:52 am
Sarah Harmer: photo by Michael Ligon Sarah Harmer: photo by Michael Ligon Sarah Harmer: photo by Michael Ligon While the kids were probably living it up on Bruise Cruise on Saturday June 15th...
Review - NXNE (June 14, 2013) 23 Jun 2013 | 09:23 am
Friday night of this year's NXNE was relatively a light one for me as it turned out. I'd already decided that I'd brave the crowds down at Yonge Dundas Square for Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden and...
Review - NXNE (June 12-13, 2013) 22 Jun 2013 | 04:08 am
NXNE is in the books for another year and it was one of the more spontaneouos ones I've had in years. I bumped into some familiar faces along the way, but didn't seem many of you. It seems, by the loo...
Summer Festivals 2013 - Riot Fest 18 Jun 2013 | 09:10 am
As the buzz of NXNE has now worn off, there are many more Toronto summer music festivals to look forward to and the most recent announcement and perhaps the most exciting for some is the reunion by Mi...
