On February 11, 302 Lounge hosted part of the Eat Your Art Out, Judy Garland Queer Arts Festival. Among the featured performers that night were Tovah, Jeans Boots, The Seahags, Jeremy Lane and Cidne Treen. The five-day festival was an initiative of The Avenue Community Centre in partnership...

Editor’s note: Yeah, yeah, this is being posted almost a week late. Some of us are still nursing hangovers from last weekend. Blarf. Weekend in Review part two of two. After racing up to Broadway from the Village Guitar & Amp Co. party, Amigos was already packed and buzzing. As it turns...

Editor’s note: Yeah, yeah, this is being posted almost a week late. Some of us are still nursing hangovers from last weekend. Blarf. Weekend in Review part one of two. After a particularly delicious-but-debilitating night sampling beer from local brewer Paddock Wood’s 1,000 Monkeys stout...

I could gush on and on about how d.b.s. is one of my favourite bands of all time. How they not only influenced my band but who I am today. I could rant on about how their artwork is permanently inked on my back and how crushed I am to have missed their final show. But instead I’ll just...

The Band Swap challenge: 35 musicians (give or take, am I right?) are randomly assembled into seven bands at a swap meet, where they are assigned four cover songs. Each band then has 24 hours to master their songs – or figure out some way to butcher them completely and appropriately. Here is...

You can see a lot of weird shit at an electronic show — raver girls with glow-in-the-dark hula hoops, dudes puking on other dudes in line for the bathroom and the guy at the urinal next to you who is almost always trying to sell you pills. With that said, Snowbomb featuring Deadmau5,...

One of my first jobs was a fry cook at a fast food restaurant. As part of the humiliation for earning $4.85 an hour for scraping gunk out of vats of scalding oil and neatly arranging bacon on hamburgers, I was given a uniform to wear. A saucy pair of stiff, navy blue pants complimented the...

You could hear the soft tapping of socked feet at a warm and lovely ‘haus’ show on Monday as the Karpinka Brothers and Oldseed christened Sheena Miller’s new pad, hosted of course by viveMusic. This was my first house show, and as awkward as I can be sometimes, I didn’t feel...

So a bunch of stuff happened, including The Seahags at Louis’, Friends Electric and Feral Children at Amigos, New Jacobin Club at The Fez, Barcamp (tech conference that devolved into a keg party) and The Decentralized Dance Party! Special thanks to Jane for the Angry Teeth Freakshow...

Continued from Part 1 found HERE. One of rock and roll’s greatest traits is its primal tiger swagger, a spiky pompadour greased with sweat, black leather, rebellion and pee. Tellingly, get too close to the animal and it will take a swipe at you. B.A. Johnston’s show at Amigos on Saturday,...