#Toronto music

[love-michael4ever]

❤️‍🔥 Victory Tour is just something els, BEAT IT always makes me hyped, such a powerful song

🎥 Toronto 1984

[flowersforaerith]

treehouse of horror @ tranzac (toronto, on) - june 8th, 2024

"mere mortals we leave": the farewell show of a perennial daydream

[thelensofyashunews]

TATE MCRAE RELEASES NEW SONG AND VIDEO FOR “It’s ok I’m ok”

Today, multi-platinum pop sensation Tate McRae releases her new song “It’s ok I’m ok” alongside the official music video via RCA Records. Written and produced with hitmakers Ryan Tedder (Taylor Swift, Beyoncé), ILYA (Ariana Grande, ROSALÍA) and Savan Kotecha (The Weeknd, Ellie Goulding), “It’s ok I’m ok” marks a new chapter for the star. 

Featuring an irresistible chorus, the pop-infused offering is accompanied by a killer dance visual. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis (Doja Cat, Charlie XCX) and choreographed by Sean Bankhead (Cardi B, Lil Nas X), the high-energy music video follows an unbothered Tate strutting through city streets. Her presence is both commanding and seductive, drawing you into her world without wanting to look away.

Tate adds, “I’m so beyond excited to share “It’s ok I’m ok” with the world and this new chapter of my music. This song is a byproduct of reflecting back on past relationships to now and how much I’ve grown and learned from them. It’s a playful take on knowing your worth and the all too relatable feeling of never wanting someone back.”

“It’s ok I’m ok” is the first taste of new music from Tate following her highly anticipated 2023 sophomore album THINK LATER which debuted at #3 in Canada. Steeped in pop appeal and infectious toplines, the album features the 5x Platinum single “greedy” which earned Tate #1 on the Billboard Canadian 100 chart, Global Excl. US chart, Spotify’s Global chart, and hit #1 at CA Top 40 and CA Hot AC. 

She’s currently on her sold out global ‘THINK LATER TOUR’ spanning 59-dates throughout Europe, UK, North America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. With a handful of shows left, this tour has already seen Tate play the biggest and most iconic venues of her career. Last month, she played her first headline show at Madison Square Garden. For more information on the Asia, Australia, and New Zealand shows visit HERE. 

[maybe-frog]

PLEASE does anyone have a video of Cavetown says “who here likes girls!!” In Toronto before playing ‘Fall in Live With a Girl’? That moment was really meaningful to me and I didn’t get a video of it.

[stickto-otherartists]

Camille Léon | The Garrison, Toronto 07.28.24

[stevieonfilm]

The Driver Era, Danforth Music Hall - August 8, 2022

[gettingmoneyontour]

the niche group of toronto/scarborough fans MOVED when they saw this

i was stopped in my tracks i was so confused

[azlyricsdotcom]

I Taste Blood // Ace Of Wands // Desiring (2023)

[goddessofsadness]

Check out Parachute Thieves on streaming services everywhere.

[angelz667]

if i posted my top songs atm would you guys pick your favs out of them?

[saladgold]

Summer ‘24

WATCH TILL THE END

[amadeus-lmao]

Seeing METZ live for the 3rd time tonight!!!

[flowersforaerith]

GUTMACHINE @ SIXNINEHAÜS (Toronto, ON) - October 11th, 2024

shot by VIDEOGIRL95

[thelensofyashunews]

LUBALIN ANNOUNCES "HAHA, NO WORRIES" ALBUM OUT DECEMBER 6- AND HER NEW SINGLE OUT TODAY

Today songwriter, producer, and long-time collaborator with 6-time JUNO winner Charlotte Cardin, Lubalin, shares his latest single, “bullet time”, a powerful blend of raw emotion, sharp lyricism, and unrestrained vocals.

After skyrocketing into TikTok fame at the end of 2020 with his “internet drama” parody videos and co-writing/co-producing much of Cardin’s JUNO Album of the Year winning 99 Nights record, Lubalin is coming into his own as a multi-talented solo artist.

Lubalin describes the track’s creative process, saying: “Charlotte Cardin, Jason Brando and I originally wrote this song while we were writing for Charlotte's album, 99 Nights. We actually wrestled with it quite a bit. We knew we had something, but we just couldn't get it to click, and in the end, it just didn't fit Charlotte's sound at the time, so we shelved it. Eventually, the sound started to emerge for this album. There's a lot of drum & bass inspiration, organic drum breaks, this sense of motion, chopped background vocals... it's very cool, but I also like things that are right on the edge of being cheesy. It's almost like ‘The Matrix’ soundtrack meets 2000s soft pop.”

On his forthcoming debut album haha, no worries, Lubalin blurs the line between child-like wonder and decidedly adult self-doubt. Mining an overlooked vein of experience, the everyday interactions and off-the-cuff communications we toss back and forth with little thought - presenting a series of emotionally raw but meticulously crafted observations with a wry sense of humour and a gleeful disregard for convention.

Blending pop-leaning drum & bass influences, 2000s-era electro-pop, indie, and alt. rock, the Montreal-based artist/producer juxtaposes urgent, often frenetic rhythms and vocal loops against deceptively laid-back vocals and instrumental tracks that rely heavily on the duality that informs his music and life.

[emo-and-emo-adjacent]

Oh, in Pine Point, it's deteriorating And your memory started fading So you called to let me know You said, "It seems like forever Since we've seen each other Where does the time go?"

[mywifeleftme]

101: Parts Found in Sea // Seat of the Writing Man

Seat of the Writing Man Parts Found in Sea 1984, Between

Named for a headline describing an airplane that crashed into the ocean, Parts Found in Sea were a mellow post-punk/college rock band that worked the Toronto club circuit hard throughout the 1980s before fading into obscurity. Their small catalogue (two EPs, an LP, and a live album) turns up around used shops in the GTA with fair frequency, and there are a few fond remembrances online from author/activist Cory Doctorow and the wonderful ‘80s indie blog Wilfully Obscure (which I was delighted to learn is still in business).

Parts are a very vibey band—meandering tempos, no hooks to speak of, plenty of glutenous bass to sway dreamily to. They’re not quite goth though—vocalist Steve Cowal is both melancholy and a poet, but seems like he would just look confused if you told him most people start bands to get laid. As Doctorow notes, most of Parts’ songs feel less like verse/chorus/verse/chorus affairs and more like a series of movements. It’s most notable on side-closers “Satellite” and “Body Sends Us,” which have jammy structures that give modest guitarist David Currie (not the former Ottawa Symphony Orchestra conductor, which, I know, you were thinking) a chance to scratch away at his instrument in the spotlight.

In retrospect, Parts Found in Sea sound like one of those transitional bands between European post-punk and the forthcoming wave of predominantly North American post-rock bands. If they’d come along a little later, they might’ve alighted on some ideas that could’ve expanded and abstracted their sound in interesting ways—but as it is, they left behind a catalogue full of pleasant surprises for aficionados of gloomy, thoughtful ‘80s alternative.

101/365