Category Archives: Rock, Alternative & Punk

Former Sepultura members Max & Iggor Cavalera brought their Return Beneath Arise Tour to The King Of Clubs in Columbus, Ohio for a sold out show on Friday night.

Avril Lavigne @ Scotiabank Center in Halifax

Approaching the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax there was no mistaking the crowd heading to the show. Many lined up around the corner eagerly awaiting to get in donned plaid skirts, fishnets, and fingerless gloves. As a twenty-something music lover I grew up listening to Avril and was surprised to see the age range in the crowd of passionate Avril fans.

Thursday night started off with a favorite of mine, The Beaches. The Toronto based rock band brings to the stage with lots of energy, and typically have on flashy outfits you can always count on them for a fast paced set filled with hair flips and high kicks. The crowd who were still mingling around when the set started quickly tried to find their seats once they could hear what they were missing and the arena filled up. The Beaches have a number of summer dates set for 2022 including festivals like Ottawa Bluesfest and Festival d’été de Québec in July, plus their “Future Lovers” tour stars in Toronto in August.

Avril kicked things off with balloons which have been a signature piece of the Bite Me Tour. The crowd took to their feet and kicked off the night with two songs from her new Love Sux album, Cannonball and Bite Me. Shooting off confetti and releasing large balloons, the audience was loving the show. The energy really kicked up when she jumped into throwbacks like What the Hell from her Goodbye Lullaby album. The show was high energy, filled with a balance of nostalgia and throwbacks with lots of new songs (2022 marks the 20 year anniversary of Avril’s Let Go album which has a number of well known hits including Sk8r Boi and Complicated).

This was the last stop on this leg of Avril’s Bite Me Tour, but she has more dates scheduled throughout the summer including Madison Square Garden in NYC Jun 28th and Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on July 6th. Avril will be touring well into 2023 globally and her full tour schedule can be found HERE.

Set List: 

Cannonball

Bite Me

What the Hell

Here’s to Never Growing Up

Complicated

My Happy Ending

Smile

Losing Grip

Love it When You Hate Me

Hello Kitty

Girlfriend

The Calgary Stampede is thrilled to welcome back the Coca-Cola® Stage for 2022! Reimagined in a new location on the southwest end of Stampede Park, the iconic stage will feature award-winning artists so you can sing and dance all day and all night long. The Coca-Cola® Stage lineup is always highly anticipated, and is headlined by a vast array of talent across many different genres.

Almost like they’ve been watching back-to-back hockey games, the 4 piece, Toronto-based, the all-girl band The Beaches set up shop for a doubleheader at Edmonton’s Midway in support of their 2021 EP: “Future Lovers”.

I was there to photograph their first show of two.

The British band Tear For Fears kick-started their Tipping Point tour at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio last Friday night.

The Pop-Punk Princess marks her return to Edmonton with a sold out show after 11 years.

Halestorm, Stone Temple Pilots and Black Stone Cherry performed at Kemba Live! in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday night to celebrate the 99.7 The Blitz 30th Anniversary Concert Series kick-off and it was a banger!

Platinum selling and Grammy Award winning musician Bryan Adams returns to Canada for a colossal coast-to-coast Canadian tour, in support of his 15th studio album, released in March 2022, aptly titled So Happy It Hurts.