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A chance brush with punk rock led Eamon McGrath to a career as a rough-and-ready troubadour

Our music columnist Sarah Liss has issues with this year’s '80s-centric Pride-performer lineup. Suffice it to say, she's not in the mood to Wang Chung tonight.

Speak of Trouble, Great Bloomers’ full-length debut, is a rollicking mess of saloon piano, cymbal crashes and warmly bubbling guitars wrapped around Sostomi’s sweet, questioning vocals. Though their music has an unbridled sense of playfulness, Great...

Songs From a Room make a window-rattling hard-rock racket

Megan Hamilton’s voice is what trips people up. It’s not that her singing is harsh, tuneless or even terribly idiosyncratic — quite the contrary. The Torontonian singer-songwriter is possessed of a rich, resonant set of pipes. Her vocals are husky and...