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Lavender Wild – queers music and arts festival – June 4, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, June 1, 2023

by: in Music, Queer, Toronto

Lavender Wild is a one-day queer music and arts festival taking place at RBC Echo Beach (909 Lakeshore Blvd West, Ontario Place) on Sunday, June 4, 2023 in Toronto. The outdoor music event will host an eclectic 2SLGBTQ+ lineup across two stages, with both domestic and international artists. Of all the shades of purple, lavender […]

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Queer/nonbinary synthpop project The Scary Jokes releases new album, Retinal Bloom

posted Friday, May 26, 2023

by: in Music, Queer

The Scary Jokes is the solo synthpop project of Pennsylvania-based queer / nonbinary musician, activist and visual artist Liz Lehman. Along with the release of album track “Magic Hat,” they have announced new Fire-Toolz produced LP, Retinal Bloom, out May 26 on Needlejuice Records. Like their band name, Lehman’s music hits an oxymoronic tone, with ethereal […]

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Love to Love You, Donna Summer – intimate look into the life of the Queen of Disco

posted Saturday, May 20, 2023

by: in Music, Streaming Online

Love to Love You, Donna Summer offers an in-depth look at the iconic artist. Following its world premiere  at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, this intimate look into the life of The Queen Of Disco will begin streaming on HBO in May. Shaped by Summer’s own reflections, the memories of close family, friends and […]

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Dolly Parton is a Rockstar – track listing for new rock album includes many great collaborations

posted Thursday, May 11, 2023

by: in Celebrity, Music

Dolly Parton has joined forces with some of Rock music’s most legendary artists along with today’s biggest stars for her first-ever Rock album, ROCKSTAR. The 30-song collection includes nine original tracks and 21 iconic rock anthems. ROCKSTAR is set for global release on November 17, 2023 via Butterfly Records with distribution by Big Machine Label Group […]

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The Sound Inside – everyone has a story, the question is how it ends – on stage until May 28, 2023

posted Thursday, May 11, 2023

by: in Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

The Sound Inside tells the story of Bella Baird, an isolated ivy league creative writing professor at Yale who begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic mysterious student named Christopher. As the two form an unexpectedly intense bond, their lives and the stories they tell about themselves intertwine in unpredictable ways, culminating in Bella making a […]

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Vivek Shraya tours Canada to support new release, ‘Baby, You’re Projecting’

posted Thursday, May 4, 2023

by: in Music, Queer, Toronto

Vivek Shraya, is touring a few select Canadian dates in support of her upcoming visual album Baby You’re Projecting, out May 12 via Mint Records. Produced by and co-written with frequent collaborator James Bunton (Donovan Woods, Ohbijou), it’s described as a break-up album that explores Vivek’s tenuous relationships with men.  The tour announcement follows the […]

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The Lost Weekend, A Love Story – May Pang documents her open relationship with John Lennon

posted Thursday, May 4, 2023

by: in Music, Streaming Online, Theatre

The Lost Weekend, A Love Story reveals a missing chapter in The Beatles’ canon: the passionate 18-month relationship between John Lennon and his assistant May Pang. The film uses never-before-seen footage and photos, including interviews with Julian Lennon, to paint a complex and moving portrait of Pang and the late Beatle. Billed as “a weekend […]

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Toronto’s queer “Witch Prophet” release new dreamy trip-hop album

posted Wednesday, May 3, 2023

by: in Music, Queer, Toronto

Toronto’s Witch Prophet have released a new album Gateway Experience, pulling us deep into her mind by questioning the connections with our brains, music, dreams, seizures, god and otherworldly abilities, The first single is the alternative RnB/hip hop track Energy Vampire, featuring Toronto based rapper DillanPonders, a deeply layered song about nightmares, beings that roam those […]

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Honouring Trans Musician Jackie Shane’s Toronto Legacy With Commemorative Plaque

posted Sunday, April 30, 2023

by: in Activism, Art, Music, Queer, Toronto

Fans and the public are invited to contribute to a fundraising campaign to celebrate and honour musician Jackie Shane with a commemorative plaque in downtown Toronto. Shane was a pioneering trans soul singer who packed nightclubs and electrified the Toronto music scene in the 1960s. This campaign seeks to raise funds to erect a plaque near the […]

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Placebo tour stops in Toronto April 27, 2023, with support from Poppy Jean Crawford

posted Thursday, April 27, 2023

by: in Music, Toronto

UK popsters Placebo are currently touring North American for the first time in nearly a decade, and Toronto fans have a chance to catch them April 27, 2023 at History Toronto, with not-to-be-missed opening act Poppy Jean Crawford.  Placebo released their latest LP Never Let Me Go back in March 2022 at which point they had […]

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