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k-os: Not Your Typical Rap Show
April 5, Danforth Music Hall By Clark Kingsbury The first thing to remember about Canadian musician k-os: he’s not a rapper. I mean, he raps, and he has identified himself as a rapper in the past, but rapping is such a small part of his musical arsenal that it would be a disservice to cling to that label. And when he arrives at the Danforth Music Hall April 5th, patrons should expect far more than a typical rap show. k-os, whose name plays on the acronym K.O.S. (Knowledge Of Self), has been floating around the Canadian music scene for well over a decade now. In the early-to-mid-nineties he released a…
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A Little Help From Friends
An Inspirational Response to a Tragic Fire By Clark Kingsbury The crowd is impossibly cool. A colourful mix of fashionable young men and women are packed into a tiny, three-storey house on Bathurst Street, just north of Dundas Street West, in downtown Toronto. The cover is $20 for all you can drink beer, dirt cheap shots, and a revolving door of live bands and DJs playing from a small homemade stage in the house’s living area. There’s only one bathroom, so many of the young men are darting in and out of the house to relieve themselves. It is hot, almost unbearably cramped, and incredibly festive. People are laughing, hugging…
