posted Monday, September 30, 2019
NY-based experimental artist and producer Dandelot (DON-de-loh), aka Kevin Shoemaker, has released his new single and video for “Tutu”. Merging a bouncy hip hop beat with a classically influenced piano loop, “Tutu” is an upbeat, catchy tune that channels Dandelot’s experience as a classically trained ballet pianist in New York. The visual doubles down on the ballet theme, featuring three […]
posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019
ScrapFest is a multicultural, immigrant friendly indie music series showcasing alternative artists with varied geopolitical backgrounds and a common outsider perspective. The platform seeks to bridge cultural differences by showcasing artists with a shared queer inclusive narrative. Actually, we just want to have to have fun. “Live loud queer and proud. The future is in full […]
posted Friday, September 20, 2019
I chatted with Sharon back in 2015 when she was releasing her album Perfect Stranger. I right away liked this energetic passionate artist. Sharon Pereira is a 22-year old singer, songwriter and recording artist based in Malta. Having performed in many different venues all her life across Canada, the UK, and Malta, she has developed […]
posted Thursday, August 29, 2019
For the upcoming issue of AutumnPlay, I spoke with Thom Fitzgerald who was in LA working on his upcoming film, Stage Mother, which stars Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, and Adrian Grenier among others. The plot follows a conservative church choir director who inherits a drag club in San Francisco started by her deceased son, from whom she was estranged after he came out as gay. “Even […]
posted Friday, August 9, 2019
Aaron De Sousa is a singer and songwriter whom I worked with on a very special event in memory of those in our community lost at Pulse/Orlando. We filmed “Cuarenta y Nueve” (49 in Spanish) a very special episode of the community talk show that I host “On the Couch” at Glad day Bookshop, and […]
posted Tuesday, August 6, 2019
If you took all the best of the We’re Funny That Way Festival, you’d wind up with something very close to Tom Hearn’s latest offering, SLANG, a queer solo sketch comedy tour. Original over-the-top stand-up monologues, hyperbolic sketches, and satirical parodies all written by Tom Hearn, whose character impersonations are as funny as they are […]
posted Monday, July 15, 2019
Music documentaries always provide a great insight into some of our favourite artists, not only behind the scenes of the music industry, but often into the private lives of the musicians themselves. Here are three new flicks that go back several decades, preserving history that some may have forgotten, and others may never have even […]
posted Friday, July 5, 2019
If you haven’t heard of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, then hand in your gay card. The film is a hilarious adventure of three drag friends who hop aboard a battered old bus bound for the Australian Outback to put on the show of a lifetime. Their epic journey is a heart-warming story of self-discovery, […]
posted Friday, June 28, 2019
Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. Jack Malik, played by Himesh Patel (BBC’s Eastenders), is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, […]
posted Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Toronto-based art collective Mondo Forma and Universal Music Canada are excited to announce that The Funhouse, an immersive, experiential art maze inspired by music and created in collaboration with some of Toronto’s most exciting artists, will open Sat., June 1 at 101 Lisgar St. (just north of Queen St. W.). The project will feature site-specific works from noteworthy Toronto-based visual artists like Broadbent […]
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