Jesse Polowin
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Fringe Arts
Weekly Spins
Chicago three-piece Russian Circles return with their unique brand of intense instrumental music, one that runs the gamut of borderline-black metal to shoegaze-y ambiance, incorporating grumbling bass, walls of heavily-distorted electric guitar and pounding drums that would be an apt soundtrack for one’s descent to the underworld.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal’s Other Jazz Festival
With a host of local and imported talent, the OFF Jazz festival will be returning to Montreal this fall for its 12th annual edition.
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Fringe Arts
Jam at the End of Days
It was well past six o’clock on Judgment day, and the groove was just getting started at Wakefield’s Black Sheep Inn. Nothing provided a better soundtrack to the end of days than the Toronto-based modern jazz quartet Trace Element.