Virgin Fest ’08: Final Lineup

Shaping up to be an amazing weekend on the island. Here are the new bands just added. SEPTEMBER 6th The Kooks The Fratellis Against Me! MGMT Shudder To Think Airborne Toxic Event SEPTEMBER 7th Silversun Pickups The Wombats Danko Jones Sons and Daughters Robyn

thoughts from an old man on vfest

From the top of my head….. -some festivals are really about standing in lines…. waiting to just stand in other lines… -there is such thing as a $3.50 bottle of water and a $6.00 can of budweiser –MIA is sexy –Bjork is phenomenal. Highlight of the saturday performances. As well, each of her songs are […]

V-Fest III: Burtch’s Take

Apparently I have procrastinated in posting my thoughts on the Virgin Music Festival from this weekend past. Chris has left me with the opportunity to post about the Dears, the Hidden Cameras, and Eagles of Death Metal. Lets get to it shall we? The Dears put on exactly the show one would expect of a […]

Canadian Music Cafe

Check out this event happening right now in Toronto. The Canadian Music Cafe is a series of daytime showcases at the Rivoli intended to program live music events for film people attending the Toronto International Film Festival. Supported by a slew of different organizations and repping artists/bands across all genres, its a real opportunity to […]

V-Fest continued

Good: Muse is a phenominal live band. They had the biggest crowd for their set, probably because Starsailor was their competition playing on the other stage. Pumping out great new tunes like ‘Starlight’ (who was playing the piano on that one?) and ‘Supermassive Black Hole’, the crowd approved and showed their affection by jumping up […]