Today, The Scream celebrates the art of the grant, The Flaming Lips battle the pink robots, To Kill A Mockingbird hits the big 5-0, the Gladstone's new art exhibit is super gay, and Tonto's Nephews are back together again.

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. Indie rockers Spoon will be playing the Sound Academy tonight alongside Deerhunter and [...]

On a particularly desperate TV day, try tuning into The Main on Food Network Canada, and you might find yourself wondering why the hell Spoon licensed their song “I Turn My Camera On” to be used as its theme. And then you’ll realize that—gasp!—it isn’t a Spoon song at all, just a song with pretty [...]

Spoon have made only one big misstep in their ten-plus years of recording albums: Gimme Fiction. The 2005 album, a follow-up to 2002′s absolutely brilliant Kill the Moonlight, marked a step backward for the band’s music and a step forward for its accessibility––an album of decent, friendly, straightforward, catchy, and ultimately forgettable rock songs, an [...]

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! Flurries. A couple moments of spring now buried in another few days of snow. Torontoist longs for the days [...]

At the end of the second verse of one of Bright Eyes‘ new songs, “Reinvent The Wheel”—a eulogy for a dead musical idol, possibly Elliott Smith—lead singer Conor Oberst laments to his fallen hero that “you never understood what we loved you for.” Coming as the line does in the song, with guitar chords and [...]

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 [...]

I’m *sixeyes. I’m back. And Torontoist is sick of radio. The kind of crud that gets played on the type of stations that advertise themselves as ‘Music for the Workplace’. Celine Dion (a little restraint please), Christina Aguilera (a lot of restraint, puh-leeze), Shania Twain (“Don’t”, that’s the name of the song… so Torontoist has [...]