Performing tonight at The MOD Club is Australia’s gorgeously enchanted, lushly tuned Sia - full name, Sia Furler. Her name may not be familiar to most but her incredible vocals undoubtedly will. She’s earned much recognition from singing backing vocals on a few Zero 7 tracks a couple years back and more recently Torontoist’s favourite HBO series, Six Feet Under used her song Breathe Me in the very final scene of the series closer.... [continue]

Graffiti is a sore subject for city officials and with good reason considering Torontoist would also like to preserve the integrity of the city’s buildings and streetscapes. Being an artist herself however, Torontoist feels that urban street art is so special and authentic to each city and would rather embrace this medium than discourage it, as long as everybody’s views are being respected. Berlin, Germany is well known for its amazing graffiti culture and... [continue]

MTV has been live in Canada for just over 24 hours and Torontoist’s immediate response is yawn. Obviously, it is still very new and we should allow them time to work out the kinks, like replacing their version of “hip” Vjs for one (a few of 'em pictured here). Torontoist will honestly say that based on the quality of their marketing across the city and on television there is potential for good things but do... [continue]

Thus far, rock photographer Andrew MacNaughtan has had a gorgeous and enviable career in photographing Canada’s hottest musicians. Torontoist is sure you are all familiar with his photographic work as he’s captured the likes of K-OS, The Tragically Hip, Avril Lavigne, Sam Roberts (pictured here) and Chantal Kreviazuk over the years. For his latest show "Art Gives Hope: A Decade of Music Portraits" he’s compiled and donated his favourites of the past ten years and... [continue]

Torontoist had heard for a while that MTV Canada's arrival was fast approaching which got us thinking about what MTV’s presence will mean for Canada’s own MuchMusic. Apparently, CTV is required to operate this station under a Talk TV license; therefore, more lifestyle programming and little focus on actual music and videos. So it would appear Much will keep its core audience and the two networks will have little to battle over. Right? Well, who... [continue]

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