With their "Long Live The Black Parade" tour, My Chemical Romance delivered an elaborate and entertaining exploration of authoritarianism. The post Review & setlist: My Chemical Romance skewers fascism at Fenway Park appeared first on Boston.com.| Boston.com
Laus Polyphoniae 2025Ars Antiqua – Ars Nova – Ars SubtiliorPolyphony from the age of cathedral builders (1140-1440)Antwerp, Flanders22 August – 31 August 2025 Laus Polyphoniae is the annual festival organised by AMUZ (Flanders Festival Antwerp), dedicated to the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance era. Since its inception in 1994, the festival has grown to … Continue reading Laus Polyphoniae 2025, Antwerp| Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +
International Young Artist’s PresentationLaus Polyphoniae 2025AMUZ, Antwerp. 23 August 2025 The annual International Young Artist’s Presentation (IYAP) is a coaching and presentation scheme promoted by AMUZ (Flanders Festival Antwerp) and the Musica Impulscentrum. Its aim is to help promising young musicians “grow into tomorrow’s stars”. Six young early music ensembles are invited to three days of coaching by early music specialists … Continue reading IYAP 2025: Internationa...| Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +
The Doobie Brothers returned to a familiar stage Tuesday night as they kicked off their Walk This Road tour at Pine Knob Music Theatre. With a career spanning more than five decades, the Rock and [...] The post The Doobie Brothers Kick Off “Walk This Road” Tour at Pine Knob appeared first on 519 Magazine.| 519 Magazine
Abel Tesfaye came home this weekend, and Rogers Centre felt every bit of it on Monday night. The second of four sold-out shows proved why The Weeknd has become one of the few artists who [...] The post The Weeknd’s Homecoming Marathon: A 40-Song Odyssey Through 15 Years of Stardom appeared first on 519 Magazine.| 519 Magazine
Jeff Dunham rolled into Caesars Windsor on July 26 like a one-man circus with a trunk full of troublemakers, delivering exactly the kind of gleefully inappropriate comedy that has made him one of North America’s [...] The post Puppets, Politics and Parenting: Jeff Dunham Lights Up Caesars Windsor appeared first on 519 Magazine.| 519 Magazine
Jerry Seinfeld transformed the OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino into a laboratory of laughter on July 25, showcasing exactly why he remains comedy’s most reliable architect of the absurd. The 69-year-old comedian bounded onto the [...]| 519 Magazine
Oxford early music dayContinuo Foundation & Oxford Festival of the Arts, Linarol Consort of Viols, Bellot Ensemble, Sir Nicholas KenyonGrove Auditorium, Magdalen College. 12 July 2025 As part o…| Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +
Melomania Bojan Čičić & Stéphanie BrochardOxford Festival of the ArtsFestival Hall, Magdalen College School. 10 July 2025 melos = music | mania = madness It was Goethe who suggested that “Music is liquid architecture and Architecture is frozen music”. Something very similar could be said of the link between dance and music. From medieval times up … Continue reading Melomania: Bojan Čičić & Stéphanie Brochard| Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +
Beethoven’s 5thAcademy of Ancient MusicLaurence Cummings, David Blackadder, trumpetAcademy of Ancient MusicBarbican Hall. 27 June 2025 Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt: Telemachus on Calypso’s IsleHa…| Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +
“Weird Al” Yankovic transformed Toronto’s Budweiser Stage into a multimedia comedy carnival Wednesday night (July 9), delivering a performance that redefined what a concert experience could be. The master parodist’s Bigger & Weirder 2025 Tour [...] The post “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Bigger & Weirder Tour Proves Why He Remains Comedy Rock Royalty appeared first on 519 Magazine.| 519 Magazine
As the sun sets over Detroit’s iconic skyline, the stage is set for an electrifying night at Caesars Arena, where hip-hop history is ready to unfold. Tonight, the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, the East Coast titans [...] The post Wu-Tang Clan Proves They’re Still Untouchable in Explosive Detroit Performance appeared first on 519 Magazine.| 519 Magazine
Kelly Hansen, Luis Maldonado and Geordie Brown gave the crowds at Caesars Windsor a night – and a narrative – they’ll be talking about long after the tour buses cross the Ambassador Bridge. This wasn’t [...]| 519 Magazine
Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle Saturday, 7th June 2025 On the Saturday of the Soundle Festival my body clock ignored how tired I was from the previous day of travelling and concert going, so it blithe…| T P A
Mozart 250: 1775The Mozartists, Ian Page, Rachel PodgerWigmore Hall. 18 June 2025 Photo: The Mozartists Haydn: Symphony No. 66 in B flatMozart: Violin Concerto No.2 in D major, K.211 Symphony in D …| Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +
Picture this: Motley Crue’s Vince Neil cancels, leaving promoters scrambling and fans grumbling, but sometimes the rock gods smile down with unexpected gifts. Enter Sebastian Bach, swooping in like some leather-clad superhero to save the [...]| 519 Magazine
More than five decades after three cousins from Fort Payne first picked up their instruments, Alabama proved Thursday night at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor that legends don’t fade — they simply refine their craft. [...]| 519 Magazine
Twenty-three years after “Complicated” first crashed radio waves, Avril Lavigne proved she could still uncomplicate a room full of devoted fans at Canada Life Place on June 3. The pop-punk princess delivered a career-spanning performance [...]| 519 Magazine
Watching Teddy Swims live was a little like watching someone crack open their ribcage and hand you their heart – his May 21st stop at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheater was a lesson in vulnerability and [...]| 519 Magazine
I’ve always taken pride in discovering artists before they became mainstream – whether it was Rex Orange County before “Sunflower,” Sun Room before their “Outer Banks” tik-tok campaign, $uicideboy$ during their 2015 release of “Kill Yourself part IX: The Soul Seek Saga,” or Wallows in 2018 upon the release of the “Spring” EP. Some might...| The University News