Toronto’s Diamond Rings threw himself a triumphant little CD release party at the Garrison on Tuesday night. What started as a seeming alter-ego side project to his frontman duties with his once–main squeeze, the (long overdue for a second album) post-punk quartet D’Urbervilles, has transformed into a full-fledged force, and it’s been nothing short of [...]

From March 10 to 14, Torontoist is covering the crap out of Canadian Music Week, with daily concert and film previews, reviews of the latest action (both here and via our TOist Live Twitter account), questionnaires with your favourite and soon-to-be-favourite bands and industry stars, and more, maybe. Handsome Furs. Photo by lenehan from Flickr. [...]