posted Monday, November 23, 2020
With unfettered access to the Zappa family’s vault, Alex Winter’s Zappa explores the mammoth career of legendary Frank Zappa. He’s been called a rock iconoclast and a guitar god, but Frank Zappa was also a composer whose music defied categorization. With archival footage, Zappa explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away […]
posted Friday, November 20, 2020
The TIFF 2019 favourite film, SOUND OF METAL, is about a heavy metal drummer whose life is upended when he loses his hearing. Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and Lou (Olivia Cooke) live together, two nomads traveling gig to gig on an endless American tour. Their music is loud, frenzied and passionate, until one day Ruben is overwhelmed […]
posted Wednesday, November 4, 2020
When a naive pre-med student named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home and meets an elderly Cuban jazz musician named Luis, she discovers that music triggers Luis’ memories and uses it to break him out of his dementia, and to create moments of lucidity and joy. At the heart of THE […]
posted Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Queerantine is a one-of-a-kind, weekly music video showcase highlighting artists across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, airing on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. EST, presented by musical artist Kisos. Each week host Kisos sources 10 visuals, that he and a co-host can spotlight and react to live on Twitch while interacting with and inviting an engaged audience […]
posted Saturday, October 3, 2020
Nothing could stop Inside Out from celebrating their 30th anniversary, not even a pandemic! To kick off this special commemorative year, the festival presented Stardust, a film that chronicles the escapades of David Bowie‘s first visit to the United States in 1971, a trip that would go on to inspired the invention of his iconic […]
posted Friday, October 2, 2020
Following the sold-out run of their innovative and inspiring summer concert series Porchside Songs – which brought leading musical theatre performers to porches and front lawns across Toronto – The Musical Stage Company have announced the dates and line-up of performers for the first-ever digital edition of their annual signature concert event, UNCOVERED. Spotlighting iconic songs with wildly imaginative […]
posted Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The first queer global streaming TV network, Revry, honors National LGBT History Month in October with the premiere of the 5th annual QueerX festival, taking place Oct. 1–31. Celebrating LGBTQ+ music, film, politics, and culture, the festival–which has been touted as the queer SXSW (Billboard, Flaunt Magazine)–will take a unique approach to its screening and panel […]
posted Saturday, September 26, 2020
Venus Fest is pleased to announce this year’s digital edition to take place September 28- October 2. Hosted by the iconic Canadian Broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee, the festival will once again showcase music, art and a series of online panels and mentorship sessions geared towards supporting women and non-binary artists and arts workers, all offered free to the […]
posted Friday, September 25, 2020
Recently, composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland releases his first new piece of music in over 15 years. The new single, “River Dreams” will appear on his forthcoming album, Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland out now via Transgressive, the new label home for both Glenn’s catalogue and future recordings. This is simply amazing. The vocal range, lyrics, and composition […]
posted Friday, September 18, 2020
For the first time on screen, I AM WOMAN tells the inspiring story of singer Helen Reddy, who wrote and sang the song “I Am Woman” that became the anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s. The film is a story of fearless ambition and passion, of a woman who smashed through the patriarchal […]
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