Majical Cloudz bring brooding sound to NXNE for Saturday gig at the BLK BOX By: Nick Krewen Music, Published on Fri Jun 14 2013 Sparse has rarely sounded so satiating. Of the numerous adjectives used to describe the brooding, intense music on Majical Cloudz’ new full-length platter Impersonator, its relative lack of instrumentation and arrangement has drawn the most attention when garnering praise from music critic circles. CBC…
Canadian Music Week: The White Buffalo in town for Great Hall gig Folk and country singer has had six songs featured on hit TV show The Sons Of Anarchy By: Nick Krewen Special To The Star, Published on Wed Mar 20 2013 If you’re a fan of The Sons Of Anarchy, you’re probably aware of The White Buffalo’s music. The California native, who is also known as Jake Smith…
Canadian Music Week: Hard work paying off for Rah Rah Regina indie band pushing its third album The Poet’s Dead at CMW Thursday By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Wed Mar 20 2013 For its pair of Canadian Music Festival appearances at Lee’s Palace and the Church Of The Holy Trinity Thursday, Regina’s Rah Rah will be down a man. When contacted at SXSW last week,…
Musician’s creation, the guit-steel, lets him stand out amid sea of talent at Toronto fest. Junior Brown and his guit-steel are guests of the Sleepwalk festival By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Wed Oct 31 2012 When the second annual Sleepwalk Guitar Festival convenes at the Great Hall from Nov. 2 to 4, there will be plenty of six-string pioneers but only one inventor in…
Entertainment / Music Toronto’s Aubrey “Drake” Graham gets hometown hero’s welcome at Molson Amphitheatre Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Mon Aug 06 2012 The one question on everyone’s minds as the lights went down for rapper Drake’s main set of his third annual OVO Fest was how was he going to top himself this time? For the first hometown celebration of October’s Very Own, christened for the…
