In today's Urban Planner, experts debate a controversial hip-hop compendium, a cornucopia of theatre and music, and the Elephants in the Room dress up for the Winter Formal Crapshoot cabaret.

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. Zeus plays the Mod Club tonight. Photo by Kieran Roy, courtesy of Canvas [...]

From March 10 to 14, Torontoist is covering the crap out of Canadian Music Week, with daily concert and film previews, reviews of the latest action, questionnaires with your favourite and soon-to-be-favourite bands and industry stars, and more, maybe. Fucked Up. Photo by lanny’s pics from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It’s that time of year, [...]

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 Zeus released their Sounds Like Zeus EP as a teaser to their upcoming full-length, it was an immediate hit and maybe even a [...]

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. Zeus has just blown our minds. Using stop-motion animation—a technique as comfortingly nostalgic as their warm and familiar classic [...]

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. We’re the first to admit when we’re slow to catch onto something, and especially if it’s something this good. Now that we’ve taken a [...]