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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July 25th, 2026 marked my second year attending Loveless Festival, and I found myself in familiar territory. Rather than ricocheting between three places, I parked myself by the left corner of the stage at Sneaky Dee’s and prayed that the ever-buckling floor held out for the night. While the festival as a whole is marketed…
Toronto quartet Mad Iris have been staples in the scene since before I even moved to the city. They were on my radar in my early days of writing for Demo, and they’re impossible to miss if you’re a fan of local live music. After steadily releasing singles since 2024, the band are finally coming…
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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…
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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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