Just because your on-stage persona shouts, screams, smashes beer bottles, and heads up a band called Fucked Up, doesn’t at all mean that you can’t have the biggest and most generous of hearts. The big, generous heart of Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham was on full display last week as his band put together two nights [...]

In today's Urban Planner: outdoor art and food stalls at the Distillery; international rap talents face off at World Domination 2; Sloan plays a free show at Echo Beach; Comedy Bar's Pilot Week continues; and the SummerWorks Music Series opens, along with many theatre shows.

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 Double Cross—or, as it’s being called, XX (as in the roman numeral for 20)—is Sloan‘s 10th studio album. The four-headed Toronto group formed [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. My Suicide, a film by David Lee Miller, will be part of the [...]

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. There might never be a eureka moment when a universally ideal digital-music model is agreed upon. Sloan doesn’t care. The release of their Hit [...]

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is without a doubt the film which we’re most looking forward to. Compared to the unremarkable Hollywood flicks we usually see in Reel Toronto, it is virtually a Platonic Ideal. Slashfilm scored the first official stills from the much-anticipated film, which has been getting great buzz already from the likes [...]

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. An impressive eleven releases (that’s excluding a live album, a trick live album, and greatest hits compilation) into their career, Sloan remains a mainstay [...]

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers. In a change that just might be the culprit for all the Wayfarers, Toronto’s film industry is shining brighter than it has in a while. As recently reported by the Star, Filmport, the almost one-year-old megastudio—still only in its first phase of development—is all but completely booked for production [...]

Photo of Sloan’s Patrick Pentland by David Topping. MUSIC: East-coast indie powerhouse Sloan headline the Mod Club‘s Canadian Music Week kick-off with Zeus and Will Currie and the Country French joining as the opening acts. For the second show tomorrow night Hexes and Ohs replace Zeus on the bill, making it arguably the show to [...]

Photo of Les Breastfeeders from lesbreastfeeders.ca Starting tonight, Canadian Music Week goes full-fledged—coming to every lounge, parlour, house, and palace near you. With nearly thirty gigs tonight, each showcasing three to seven acts (we’ll let you do the math), Torontoist has done the homework to help you narrow your overwhelming night down. But don’t give [...]