Asleep at the switch during the dawn of Napster and viciously retaliatory in the years that followed, the music industry hasn’t done itself any favours over the last decade. In an effort to maintain a business model that is no longer relevant, the “Big Four” music behemoths have attempted a slew of marketing tactics, from [...]

Apple advertises its 8 GB MP3 player––some device called the “I Pod Mini”––as having enough capacity for 2,000 songs. Rogers, on the other hand, is marketing its 8 GB Sony Ericsson W580i MP3-playing phone as having the capacity for 10,000 songs! 10,000! That’s no problem if you like all your music under a minute and [...]

There are more ways to walk and discover this city than just following the city’s Discovery Walk maps. There are an increasing number of guided audio tours that you can download from the Internet and pack into your digital music player before heading out on your expedition. One audio tour company, City Surf, has several [...]

To some people, Groundhog Day is a silly little day where some rodent-like critter gets 15 seconds in the news cycle to flip a coin and tell us if there’s going to be a short summer or not. Or for some, it could be all about the 1993 classic starring Bill Murray about a crazy [...]

Everyone likes free swag, and we happen to have quite a bit of it lately. Our latest offering is for tickets to see Chicago buzz band The Changes, along with +/- and The Sharp Tongues this Wednesday at Sneaky Dee’s. Yes, we know that the show is technically free, but hey, this guarantees you’ll get [...]

Friday, we caught the 9:15 pm show of Mutual Appreciation at the Bloor Cinema. Shot in grainy black and white, we follow the story of Alan, a musician who’s just relocated to New York from Boston. He’s finding his way in a new city with the help of his old friend Lawrence and Lawrence’s girlfriend [...]

In response to the collapse of an overpass in Quebec, the provincial and municipal government will look at overpasses in this province. They reassure us that none of this province’s overpasses have the same design as the one in Quebec and are regularly checked. Just hours after thousands of people stumbled home after looking at [...]

An officer was shot at earlier today which prompted a manhunt in Etobicoke. Police kept a nearby school and community centre closed for safety reasons. A retired gang cop points out that Toronto had a number of great anti-gang units which were dismantled a decade ago. He argues this is one of the reasons the [...]

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we’re not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don’t sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn’t like your address. Not even Metro can save you [...]

In the year that the popularity of the ringtone might have outweighed the popularity of the single, Toronto-I-S-T comes up with the top ten songs that mattered in 2005. 1. Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley – “Welcome to Jamrock” Called “the reggae song of the decade” by the New York Times, “Welcome to Jamrock” is the [...]

Ah the holidays! A time when we can be together and share links. Here it’s not so much sharing as providing. So: - Pork Busters is an attempt answer to Siri Agrell’s aching question: “Are Canadian Bloggers Pussies?” Here, there is a blog-wide attempt to uncover useless programs within our government. - Said the Grammophone [...]