Dive Bars If you love dive bars, the Hard Luck Bar is amongst one of the coolest in the city.Like most bars these days, it is a hit and a miss for the size of the crowd. Weekdays can be a tough spot to fit and Thursday is tricky because people don’t want to go into...
Rock and Roll
Indigenous and Imperial
Being a music magazine means we are always looking for something new to talk about. In this case we have a new series of musical events that could be happening in Downtown Toronto later this year. I went to the Imperial Pub last Friday to watch an indigenous Rock band...
Playing the Classics with Albert Lee
Jan 25th. - I had the pleasure of going to Hugh's Room Live once more to experience rock and pop music history in person. This time, it was for a performance by English guitarist Albert Lee, an accomplished performer with a resume of some big names across a wide range...
Call of the Wild
If you don’t know who Bywater Call is yet, you should. This is a band reaching for the new level of success, and in my humble opinion will reach it. They just released their third album called Shepherd and played their last two intimate and sold out shows of the year...
Monkeyjunk brings the blues at Hugh’s Room
Oct. 16 – MonkeyJunk's performance was one bluesy night at Hugh's Room, nestled on Broadview Avenue in Toronto's East Side. Between the headliners and the opening performance, it was an evening steeped in soulful tunes and swampy blues. Opening the night was Keith...
The Show that never should have happened…HAPPENED!
A few weeks ago, The Mip Power Trio was setting up a show at the Dakota Tavern with Saltwater Hank, who was coming in from Prince Rupert B.C. The Dakota shut down due to an ownership transfer and the show was cancelled. What are we going to do about Saltwater Hank?...
Midweek madness on Queen Street!
If I had an opinion on the Toronto music scene today, one of those thoughts would be we are way too conservative about going out and enjoying every day of the week. Toronto has amazing music everyday of the week and yet we wait until the weekend to see live...
I heard it through the Grapevine Part 1
This content was borrowed from Deadline.com and Gettys Image Jerry Miller of Moby Grape Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesJerry Miller (https://deadline.com/tag/jerry-miller/), one of the most influential musicians in the San Francisco music scene of the 1960s, died...
I heard it through the Grapevine Part 2
I wanted to add my story to the loss of Jerry Miller and how it has impacted the future. Lately over the last few months, I have been working with a man named Norman Evans. He has been managing Don Stevenson who was the drummer for Moby Grape. The reason for this...








