There are tons of great music docs on right now at Hot Docs. It’s one of the best film festivals around, and this year they’re showing some love to music.
From The Socalled Movie (“If Woody Allen and Lil Wayne had a love child it would be Josh Dolgin…”), to Listen To This, an excellent film about a music program at an inner-city Toronto elementary school.
Check out this list of hot music docs (on the Hot Docs website).
Well the Cancer Bats certainly have come a along way from their DIY shows down in the Adrift Clubhouse. This Sunday they hit the big time opening up for Billy Talent at the Air Canada Center.
The lineup also includes fellow Canadian heavy hitters Alexisonfire, and America’s favourite punk-rock cowboys Against Me! All together this should make for one of the loudest shows the ACC will see this year.
Tickets for the show are still available through ticketmaster.ca, but for the best view show up early and pay extra for something on the floor. See you in the pit!
Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, the latest materpiece from Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn, will have its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival on April 29th at the Winter Garden Theatre. The film questions why one of the greatest selling bands of all time never got the respect from critics they deserved.
McFayden and Dunn are the metalhead duo behind some of Canada’s most successful music documentaries. They’re company Banger Films burst onto the scene in 2005 with the smash success Metal: A Headbangers Journey, and they’ve since been the kings when it comes to hard rock documentaries.
Hot Docs is still over a month away, but tickets for screenings are already online, and for a show this big you can’t afford to leave it to the last minute. Until then, get your Rush fix from City Sonic, and we’ll see you at the festival.
With Canadian Music Week now over it’s time to check out some of the amazing foreign artists who come play in our city.
This Friday and Saturday you can catch critically acclaimed Mugison at the Drake Underground. This guitar plucking genius comes to us all the way from Iceland, but recently finished a set of shows in Boston, MA.
Often compared to Beck, Mugison has a style all his own and puts on a show that must be seen. Tickets are only $5 and the doors swing open at 8pm both nights.
328 bands down, only 372 left to go. The first two nights of Canadian Music Week have been incredible and tonight promises even more.
Tonight there’s another great set of lineups full of Canadian talent. Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt is putting on a solo show live at the Music Gallery between Julie Fader and Eastcoster Postdata.
Also playing shows tonight are Our Lady Peace with the first of two back-to-back shows at Massey Hall. Bedouin Soundclash hits the stage of the MOD Club at 8:50pm, legendary Canadian bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur is playing the Chart Attack Showcase at the Horseshoe, and the amazingly talented Catl are starting things off at the Silver Dollar tonight around 7:30pm.
All tickets and details can be found through the festival schedule of the CMW website.
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