Carol Off smiles on a b-boy in the CBC atrium during the Hip Hop Summit On Friday, the CBC’s week of Hip Hop Summit events culminated in a day-long celebration that included a breakdance battle, marketplace, concert screening, and art show, while pillars of the community waxed philosophical in panel discussions in the Glenn Gould [...]

A 2007 art installation by Iain Baxter&; photo by Mr Kevino from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Whatever the exact opposite of being on a roll is, the CRTC has spent the last month doing just that. Proposing to lower the standards which prohibit false or misleading news didn’t get as much attention as their plan [...]

The MMVAs have always been a spectacle. As the younger sibling of other awards shows—MTV’s, for example, or pretty much anything else—there’s a hokey, outlandish nature to this traffic-snarling block party that smacks of overcompensation, with its bursts of glitz and a campy VJ yammering the stuff of your typically over-ambitious party host. And that [...]

Jacob Hoggard’s tweets on Friday night. When the power clicked off around downtown on Friday night just after 10 p.m., Jacob Hoggard, lead singer of Hedley, was dancing across a brightly lit stage in the middle of the intersection at Queen Street West and John Street, doing a soundcheck for this Sunday’s MuchMusic Video Awards. [...]

Is there a television station less bland than MuchMusic nowadays? Once upon a time, MuchMusic was fresh, low-tech, and spunky. (Yes, we can call the old MuchMusic “spunky” with a straight face. This was a different era, when spunky was actually good.) Okay, we admit that Torontoist has written about MuchMusic sucking previously, so this [...]

Fucked Up win the 2009 Polaris Music Prize (!!!) “Did they say Joel Plaskett?” Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham giggled, half-delirious with genuine shock and excitement minutes after he and the rest of the band (drummer Jonah Falco, guitarist Mike Haliechuk, bassist Sandy Miranda, guitarist Josh Zucker, and guitarist Ben Cook) accepted the 2009 Polaris [...]

You’ve got to hand it to a woman who can look at footage of herself from the mid-1980s and unabashedly proclaim: “Yeah, I guess I was pretty hot.” Back in the day when the cassette tape reigned supreme, Erica Ehm was making a name for herself as MuchMusic’s (and Canada’s) first female VJ. Working in [...]