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Iggy Pop and the Stooges Display Their 'Raw Power' at NXNE

If there's a world record for biggest mosh pit in a town square, Iggy Pop and the Stooges might have just broken it in Toronto Saturday night. Headlining a free outdoor concert as part of NXNE, the Detroit punk legends attracted half the city (OK, more like 10,000) to downtown's Yonge-Dundas Square for a ferocious 90-minute show. The surrounding ...

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Zola Jesus Takes Her Dark Music to Bright California

There are good reasons the press keeps calling Zola Jesus a Goth. Her musical musings are pitch-black unsettling, eerie lo-fi atmospherics created with minimal synths and drum machines that echo the cold melancholy of Joy Division. And her operatic voice sounds like the second-coming of Siouxie Sioux. But the gloom of her recent recordings 'The ...

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NXNE Festival: 10 (Other) Fun Things to Do in Toronto

With more than 650 bands playing over five evenings, North By Northeast will keep you very busy late into the night. But visitors to Toronto can fill their days with cheap tourist adventures in this clean and compact city. Here are 10 suggestions for fun times out and about that are worth setting your alarm clock for. Climb the ...

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Adult. Premieres Short Horror Film

Detroit synthpunk duo and budding filmmakers Adult. have announced the release of the second film in their 'Decampment Trilogy': the Midwestern horror short 'Traditions.' But the scariest thing for fans may be that they will probably never see it. Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus like to keep their films under wraps even after they've wrapped ...

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Justin Rutledge Tests Out Lyrics on Facebook

Many acts road test new material on stage before going into the studio. Toronto singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge had another idea: he posted sample lyrics from his new album, 'The Early Widows,' on Facebook. As he was writing, snippets and sketches of ideas would be posted as status updates for friends and family to comment on. "Sometimes I ...

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MGMT Discuss Brian Eno's Sorcery, Sarcastic 'Congratulations'

The word is out on the new MGMT album. Responding to the leak of 'Congratulations' (due out April 13), the band posted a stream of the entire thing on its official site. Now the world can hear that Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden haven't totally lost the plot, they're just following some winding roads. The nine tracks of summery psychedelia ...

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Gemma Ray Fights Laryngitis, Covers Etta James and Mudhoney at Canadian Music Fest

When your voice is shot from trans-Atlantic jetlag and a cold virus, your guitar gear was partly damaged en route and the howling rain is keeping the audience away, what's a girl to do? If you're England's Gemma Ray, then you sing the blues. The Jimmy Page-approved femme fatale is appearing solo at Canadian Music Week / Canadian Music Fest in ...

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