Featured Photo: Feura (left) performs on the Main Stage on day three of Gussapolooza 2026. Photo by Joe Taylor. Aug. 23—Cookstown, ON. Sunday at Gussapolooza began under grey drizzly skies, with the campsite still carrying the evidence of Saturday’s downpour. Yet the...
AUG. 15th – Toronto's hip hop and jazz community had quite the treat towards the end of the summer, when genre-fusing and sound-defying Brownman Electryc Trio performed at My House. The swanky bar and lounge hosted the trio, led and founded by...
Sept. 13 – Cookstown, ON. Each year, hundreds of musicians, artisans, vendors, and creators come together for the Gussapolooza music festival. This year, Blast Toronto was on the scene to cover the bands and to take part in their "creator convention," which brought...
Sept. 15 – Last weekend, Jojo and I had the pleasure of attending Gussapolooza 2024, up in Cookstown. It was a weekend packed with fantastic, varied, and talented bands, who each brought their A-game to the stage. As I prepare our review of the festival, I want to...
Welcome to the 3rd in our new weekly-ish series on the weekend nightlife in Kensington Market. Every weekend, I head to Kensington Market and walk down Augusta Ave and the nearby area to hear what’s playing from the numerous bars and clubs in the area. – Lawrence...
The first of the Kensington Dispatches, a new weekly column by Lawrence Belanger, Contributing Editor
