more by Cory Perla
[TRIBUTE] Last month, Buffalo-based 1990s cover band Kurt and the Loders tackled the heady music of Radiohead, but this month they’ve got their sights set on the perhaps more instrumentally complex music of Tool, again. And they’re looking forward to it.
[PUNK] What we need right now are more bands like Downtown Boys. “A wall is a wall and nothing more at all!” lead vocalist Victoria Ruiz sings on the band’s latest album, Cost of Living, released this month on Sub Pop records.
[DISCO] “Record stores can’t save your life, but they can give you a better one,” poet Nick Hornby once said.
Three weeks out from Night Lights Music Festival and the Mayor of Fun is day dreaming of jam bands and LED lights.
[KANYE] For some, any amount of Kanye is too much. For others, no amount of Kanye is enough. If you belong to the latter group then this is for you: an All Night Kanye Party.
[HOUSE] Pyramid returns to the Gypsy Parlor with a couple of Toronto house music DJs for this month’s event.
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] In a recent profile on the artist, LA Weekly called Drezo “the antithesis of EDM.” Which basically means that, though the artist has a keen ability to read a crowd, he’s still going to do his own thing.
[FESTIVAL] For the first time in 12 years, Slyfest—the annual world music and percussion festival held by the Sly Boots School of Music—will feature a DJ as a headliner. But not just any DJ, but DJ Logic.