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Makesi Arthur Remembered by His Fellow Comics
Paying tribute to the performer who died suddenly this week, at the age of 29. It’s 10 p.m., and the Groove Bar on the Danforth (“the farthest east in Toronto I’ve ever come to do comedy,” more than one comic tells us) is steadily filling as stand-ups keep arriving, coming from sets in other bars and “rooms” around the city. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Cults by Little Girls
Little Girls explore the seedy and sinister side of new wave on their latest EP. It’s been a summer of growing pains for Little Girls, Toronto’s fuzziest one-man bedroom band. First Josh McIntyre, the project’s sole proprietor, parted...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Action Makes by Action Makes
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
It’s about damned time. After a procrasturbatory four year wait, local garage-rock rapscallions Action Makes have finally dropped their debut album. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: A Country Blues Christmas: The 2010 Zunior Holiday Album
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city's most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we've heard in Sound Advice.
Earlier this month, Zunior Records released...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: False Flag by The Mark Inside
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
The Mark Inside are a born-again rock band. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: The Weight's on the Wheels by the Russian Futurists
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city's most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we've heard in Sound Advice.
The homemade nature of Matthew Adam Hart's...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: O by The Flowers of Hell
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
In an age of nanosecond attention spans, it takes a lot of cojones to release an album that requires the patience of a Buddhist monk. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Shakespeare My Butt by Lowest of the Low
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city's most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we've heard in Sound Advice.
A healthy sign of a true classic album...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Dog's Blood by Alexisonfire
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
As part of their ongoing quest to break...Show More Summary
Urban Planner: November 16, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Special Affections by Diamond Rings
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city's most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we've heard in Sound Advice.
After the success of last summer's "All...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: All The Things We've Been Told by the Modern Superstitions
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city's most notable new releases and brings you the best or sometimes just the biggest of what we've heard in Sound Advice.
Much has been made of the just barely out-of-adolescence make-up of of the majority of the members of Toronto's Modern Superstitions. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Page One by Steven Page
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
On the former Barenaked Ladies frontman’s...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Hooded Fang Album by Hooded Fang
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
We know what you’re thinking: "Oh great,...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: A Swedish Love Story by Owen Pallett
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city's most notable new releases and brings you the best or sometimes just the biggest of what we've heard in Sound Advice.
As if we could have asked anything more of Owen Pallett after he gave us Heartland earlier this year. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Pot Calls Kettle Black by Small Sins
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
Thomas D'Arcy has always been somewhat...Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Our Favourite Songs
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
When Torontoist heard yesterday about this covers compilation, we threw all the other albums we were sifting through for review aside for another week. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: When The Night Comes In by Art of Fresh
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
Why hip-hop duo Art of Fresh aren’t bigger in Toronto is a real head-scratcher. Show More Summary
Sound Advice: Lights From Paradise by Quest For Fire
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
Quest For Fire's music may fall underShow More Summary
Sound Advice: Negative Space by Metz
Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice.
Though often hailed as one of the loudest live bands in the city, Metz is also quickly becoming known as one of the best. Show More Summary
