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Frank Doris continues to mine his experience accrued over 50 years of playing in bands, offering insight into brand identity, having a set list, and playing music you don’t like for the sake of entertaining the crowd!
The ported, two-way, CA$ 6000/pair standmount Yamaha NS-800A oozes quality—it’s hefty, feels impeccably built, has a curvaceous body, and comes with big, robust binding posts that feel like iron door knockers between your fingers. It also comes in a beautiful black finish, said by Yamaha to be the same signature gloss finish used on the…
As we mark the bicentennial anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, imagine the scene: a packed theater in Vienna, the audience on edge, and Beethoven himself, nearly deaf, standing tall on stage. This wasn’t just another symphonic debut; it was the musical equivalent of a revolution. Premiering on May 7, 1824, the Ninth…
One of the highlights at this year’s Toronto Audiofest was the launch of the album Of the Bird, Flying, the new release by Montreal band G!ve.
The Toronto Audiofest 2023 had everything you could wish for in an audio show: great gear at all price-points, a communal and jovial atmosphere, overall good to great sound, friendly banter with peers or friends made on the spot, solid visitor traffic but not overcrowded, and plenty of coffee for dudes like me who were…
On the cusp of being 240 seasons each, the guys can still rock.
Richard Reed Parry talks to PMA Magazine’s Mark Lepage about family, punk, and Arcade Fire. “I realized early on ‘I’m not like these other kids’,” Richard Reed Parry says. No. “They were not getting up at 5 a.m. on May Day morning to dance around the maypole and sing as the sun rises.” Yep, that’s…