Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. The quick crush you’re going to develop on the Skeletones Four might surprise you. Hailing from Guelph but based in Toronto, the band’s proper [...]

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? [...]

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. It’s possible The Flatliners haven’t stopped touring, well, ever, and especially not since their excellent new album Cavalcade was [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. When Torontoist heard yesterday about this covers compilation, we threw all the other albums we were sifting through for review aside for another week. [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Though often hailed as one of the loudest live bands in the city, Metz is also quickly becoming known as one of the best. [...]

September 1 marked the first time in a whole decade that seminal sludge metal gods and grunge pioneers The Melvins played a gig in Toronto. It was a welcome return for local fans of the band, who for the past ten years have had to plot pilgrimages to far-flung burgs such as Buffalo and Detroit [...]

Kitchener’s Wayfarer brought their sweet Hot-Water-Music-esque dynamics to the Bovine, Wednesday, June 16. Photo by Nancy Paiva/Torontoist North By Northeast started last night! Sort of. The Wednesday schedule of the annual festival is not widely documented in weeklies, etc., as it’s mostly reserved for invite-only industry kick-off events or perennially hip big(ger)-ticket bands at big(ger) [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. It’s been a fast five years for 905 punks The Flatliners; between the skate-punk ska grit of 2005′s full-length debut Destroy to Create and [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. The only way to get even a tiny piece of Fucked Up‘s shockingly abundant (and mostly really rare) discography is to spend your life [...]

Ah, the Kathedral. For years, it’s been our city’s Freak Mecca. A place where leather-clad ruffians could go on a Wednesday night to hack a butt with a homeless guy, catch an offensively-named hardcore outfit, or act a fool in general. A local watering hole that mohawked miscreants could take refuge in and call home. [...]

Teenage Head lead singer Frankie Venom. Photo by Ross Taylor. The history of punk rock is usually dominated by the emergence of scenes in New York City and London. This makes some sense, given the significance of bands like the Ramones and the Clash, but it only allows a very black-and-white understanding of the period’s [...]