posted Thursday, May 7, 2015
Building on the success of last year’s WorldPride 2014 Human Rights Conference, Pride Toronto announced “Pride and Prejudice: Human Rights in the Pan Am Region” today. The 2nd annual human rights conference will be held Saturday June 20, 2015 at University of Toronto’s University College. In 2014, over 500 activists from over 50 countries participated […]
posted Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Casey: Today I have Michelle Bensimon from the Montreal-based band, Diamond Bones. Often described as “Electronic Tribal Space Rock”, Diamond Bones has gained a strong following in recent years throughout Canada and the United States. We’re very exited to have Michelle with us today. Welcome Michelle! Great to have you joining me on The Sonic […]
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In “My Body is Yours”, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male―a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
For many of my peers who are part of the early-1980s’ Millennial generation (or Generation Y), the name Mavis Staples may not be one of instant recognition. I suppose for various reasons this is understandable with the rather large chronological gap between the height of The Staples Sisters’ popularity and the 1990s musical culture of […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Pride Toronto has announced Scarborough native David Furnish as the 2015 Grand Marshall, and he will be leading the Pride Parade on Sunday June 28, 2015 along with International Grand Marshall Celina Jaitly from India. Pride Toronto annually selects an International Grand Marshall (IGM) who acts as an ambassador to represent global LGBTTIQQ2SA communities during […]
posted Friday, April 24, 2015
Casey: Today on The Sonic City we have a very special guest, director Maya Newell of the recent documentary film Gayby Baby. As an award-winning filmmaker, Newell’s recent project has provided an intimate look into the lives of four Australian families. While each of these families are immensely unique in their goals, dreams, and day-to-day […]
posted Thursday, April 23, 2015
Pride Toronto are slowly announcing their line up of entertainment this year via social media, as opposed to the more traditional way of press releases. As well, it was just announced that Pride Toronto are officially partnering with The 519 to present the popular DJ-driven Starry Night at Green Space fundraising event this year. Here […]
posted Sunday, April 19, 2015
Today I have Julie Brown with us; the singer and lead guitarist of the Queens, New York-based classic rock band, Chaos and Lace. Welcome Julie! Great to have you joining me on The Sonic City. Casey: Tell us a little bit about your musical influences, your band, and its history. Julie: I pretty much picked […]
posted Saturday, April 11, 2015
The Sonic City chats with a very special guest internationally renowned singer-songwriter Matt Gold. As an openly gay artist, Matt has forged a career in the music industry, rising to the Top of the Adult Contemporary music charts of Amazon and the FMQB. With enthusiastic reviews from The Mirror and The Huffington Post, Matt’s career […]
posted Monday, March 30, 2015
When I had the opportunity to see Los Angeles based band The Muffs this past weekend, I was rather excited. The band had their heyday during the 1990s, and as someone who was born in 1984 and lived though a 1998-2003 era of music during high school, I always felt that I grew up through […]
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