By Vanessa Markov http://www.oddballfest.com/ Funny or Die’s Oddball Festival passed through Toronto last night – the only Canadian date on the six week long comedy tour...
By Vanessa Markov Photos courtesy of Second City http://www.secondcity.com/ Having been a fan of live comedy since kindergarten, I both attempted and abandoned the notion of...
By Vanessa Markov Photos by Andrew Hartl Man…I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be at a Sublime show. Like so many diehard fans,...
By Vanessa Markov http://smashingsatellites.com/ Sal Costa is better known as the former guitarist of the now defunct Canadian rock band My Darkest Days, but that may...
www.awolnationmusic.com By Vanessa Markov Photos By Andrew Hartl AWOLNATION are too good for their own pace – that’s the only explanation I can think of for...
By Vanessa Markov https://www.facebook.com/Vanessa-Markov-662597610533757/ October 2015 Update: The attention and support this article has received has been ongoing and overwhelming to say the least. Due to...
Aluzion Reccords www.smashingsatellites.com By Vanessa Markov All it took to convince me to give former My Darkest Days guitarist Sal Costa‘s new project Smashing Satellites a...
www.xprime.ca Review by Vanessa Markov Photo by Gideon Greenbaum-Shinder I’m just gonna say it: Xprime are the best live vocal act I’ve ever seen, both with...
By Vanessa Markov http://jarekhardy.com/ Best known as a vocalist/guitarist in the beloved (and now veteran) ska-pop-punk-party band The Johnstones, you might have seen Jarek Hardy floating...
HBO Documentary Films Written and Directed by Brett Morgen http://cobainfilm.com/ Review by Vanessa Markov Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is a brilliantly successful attempt to get behind...
Review by Vanessa Markov Photos by Aaron Tamachi www.unisonfund.ca There is an endless list of reasons why the Unison Jam at The Phoenix Concert Hall this...
By Vanessa Markov www.sieraslave.com 2015 was going to be my first year off CMW, but I knew I’d end up catching a show or two along...
The CMW Show Everyone Needs to Know About By Vanessa Markov www.unisonfund.ca There’s a lot going on during Canadian Music Week (CMW2015) this year, with a lot of...
Review and Photo by Vanessa Markov https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTether/ There’s a new phenomenon in female-fronted bands lately, and it’s revolutionizing metal as we know it. The historically testosterone...
Red Bull Records http://awolnationmusic.com/ By Vanessa Markov I may be an overly emotional, hypersensitive, love seeking rock junkie, but there’s no need to make excuses. AWOLNATION...