Agriculture played Toronto on an unusually mild day for early February. Dozens of heavily eyelinered, university-aged concertgoers stood chatting and smoking outside The Great Hall on Queen and Dovercourt, a refreshing sight after yet another brutal winter. The Great Hall is a rather unique venue: the Victorian building was built to house the YMCA in…
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I last covered a show for Demo in the dead of winter. It was January (awful) and I was stationed at the Rivoli for Exclaim!’s Class of 2026 (less awful). This time around, I was sweating buckets at St. Stephen-In-The-Fields-Church to cover day two of the second annual Loveless Festival. Hosted by Toronto’s Loveless Collective,…
The best part about shoegaze for a passive fan like me is that I have no fucking clue what the word itself defines musically. What started out as a belittling term for those who lovingly stared into the deep souls (soles) of their guitar pedals during shows became synonymous with music in the ‘90s that…
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Photos by Shayla Little Maclean. View the whole photo gallery here. Medieval Found Footage’s Abagnale is here, and it feels like the talk of the town across southern Ontario. The London, Ontario four-piece have spent the past five years growing into their own unique sound, and the culmination of all those years of work is…
Keep readingIn the past few years, I’ve been noticing a rising trend on social media centering on reviving the Riot Grrrl subculture. Examples of this range from the prevalence of viral audios which span new Riot Grrl releases such as “Wet” by Dazey and the Scouts to classics like “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre. Do teenage girls…
Keep readingHave you ever wondered what a vampire might listen to while driving down the highway after experiencing a heartbreak? Well, this is the article for you. Vampires and their narratives not only meet the theme of red through blood, but also through revenge, passion, monstrosity, anger, love, lust, desire, self hatred, and self-empowerment. To emphasize…
Loveless Festival took place on July 25-26, 2026 across Toronto. On July 25th, SWiiMS, Sullen, Basement Revolver, and Pony performed at Sneaky Dee’s while Seaver, Whisper Gang, Deer Fang, and Bonnie Trash performed at Monarch Tavern. Presented by Loveless Collective and shot by Henry Klein. Henry Klein – Instagram Sneaky Dee’s Swiims Sullen Basement Revolver…
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