Forget compasses, GPS, or helpful Sherpas. From June 13–19 this year, Torontoist is here to be your guide to everything NXNE. Tona and Saukrates at the Manifesto Festival. Photo by b-real from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.   HOW TO GOHIP HOP   HOW TO GOPUNK   HOW TO GOSOLO   HOW TO GOBIG TICKET Fed [...]

Performers at the CBC’s Hip Hop Summit concert gather for a group shot after the on-stage love-in on Tuesday. Photo by Alexis Finch/CBC. One might expect a CBC-run hip-hop show at the Glenn Gould Studio to be the fun-times equivalent of a sit-down rave. The Mothership’s announcement it would host the Canadian rap concert to [...]

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. First there was Run-DMC and Aerosmith. Then there was Public Enemy and Anthrax. And now, finally, Toronto’s got its own high-profile, unlikely hip hop [...]

In today's Urban Planner, Daniel Lanois talks up his Nuit Blanche project, soccer's on the Bloor's big screen, Fado Performance brings Singapore to town, Fu-GEN Theatre wants your peepers, and K'naan and Shad headline the Small World Music Festival.

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. So, when Shad didn’t win the Polaris Prize on Monday night, we were like, “Whaaa?” But now, after watching [...]

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. You know what? Just give in to this. Hawksley Workman‘s latest album Milk is packed tight with shimmering synths and glossy guitars, its electro-pop [...]

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. “Maybe I’m not big ’cause I don’t blog or Twitter / Dawg, I’m bitter.” In the opening line of his recent single, “Yaa I [...]