Be a tourist in your own city.
The Drake Hotel 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto After ten years together, The Rest have parted ways as a band. Selfishly, I can’t help but wish I had discovered them sooner, having only experienced a small bit of that phenomenal career. The band is one of the most special groups I’ve come across throughout my … Read more
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been creating monthly Playlists of local music (and beyond) that have been the soundtrack to my tour around the city. I even got to bring my Playlists to life with the first I Heart Hamilton event, The Playlist 1.0. While getting nostalgic and thinking about the past twelve … Read more
Hamilton Music Awards McIntyre Performing Arts Centre 135 Fennell Avenue West This will definitely go down as one of my highlights of the year – the Hamilton Music Awards! I was so pumped to check out the show, especially with the amount of music-related friends I’ve made and featured over the course of the blog. … Read more
Supercrawl James Street North The event is a year in the making, some playfully dub it Hamilton’s Christmas, it gets bigger and better every year, and for the second year in a row it’s the most fun (and tiring!) event I’ve attended. SUPERCRAWL! As the 4th annual Supercrawl, this was the first that was expanded … Read more
James Street North Art Crawl Art Crawl gets bigger and better every month! The warmer months are the most fun for Art Crawl, and everyone was out and about, taking full advantage of the hot summer night. I also realized this was our second Crawl this year that fell on the superstitious Friday the 13th … Read more
Metric – “Youth Without Youth” [Listen] Can you read my mind? Read my mind? Follow along to the end of the song I’ve always been sort of a casual Metric fan, but I do really like their stuff; they never fail to grab my attention with the energy of their music. Pure rock’n’roll! And Canadian, … Read more
The Casbah 306 King Street West After handing in my last paper of the Winter term, I needed a bit of a breather from academia. With plenty of people to visit and things to do, I went back home to the Hammer to take a week off. Although my days were still filled with research, … Read more
Threshold Recording Studio 110 Catharine Street North Yet another occasion popped up during the course of the Tour to get festive – St. Patrick’s Day! Although I am a festive person, I can’t say I’ve ever really celebrated the green-hued, alcohol-fueled holiday. The grand opening of Threshold Recording Studio definitely set the bar for future … Read more