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Sound Advice: The Golden Killer by Lioness

The Torontonian trio carve out their own identity on their full-length debut.

Toronto-based dance-punk trio Lioness didn’t change their sound on their full length debut, The Golden Killer. They’ve just made it more their own. Vocalist Vanessa Fischer, formerly of No Dynamics, still has a big, soaring, soulful voice, while bassist Ronnie Morris, formerly of controller.controller, still managed to make his instrument sound remarkably like a revving [...]

With a Rebel Yell, “BINGO!”

Thursday night, the Underground Rebel Bingo Club is bringing its interpretation of the classic game to Toronto.

Rebellions don’t usually involve a lot of rules. And though The Underground Rebel Bingo Club has a few for their late-night, gritty, dirty, heavy metal/rave/grunge basement-mashup parties, none of them have anything to do with bingo. That’s because the event—which originated in London, England, and is making its Canadian debut in Toronto on Thursday night—was [...]

NXNE: How To Go Punk/Heavy

Forget compasses, GPS, or helpful Sherpas. From June 13–19 this year, Torontoist is here to be your guide to everything NXNE. Fucked Up at a show last year. Photo by lanny’s pics from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Are acoustic guitars so sincere they make you want to friggin’ puke? Think rap is for Christmas presents? [...]

Toronto ♥s Metal

While there can be no doubt that Toronto loves metal in all its deliciously absurd incarnations, the genre has definitely had its share of ups and downs. In the 1980s through the very beginning of the ’90s, metal rode right alongside rock, fledgling commercial rap, and pop music, and was a viable arena (get it?) [...]

No Sleep ‘Til Don Mills

While metal lord Lemmy Kilmister publicly embraces Canada, he also rubbed a few bangers the wrong way when he mentioned in 1999, that he didn’t like Toronto because it was “full of ugly women.” Whoops. Unlike some other people though, he had the good graces not to let this slag slip at the show. Lemmy’s [...]