Photo by Jeff Croft. Since The Beastie Boys dropped an album last year, their resident DJ Mix Master Mike has had some time to fill. The turntablism legend and three-time winner of the DMC World DJ Championships will be spinning a set at This is London on Wednesday night. Undoubtedly, he will bust out a crazy scratching display like this one from his appearance at Republik last September. Indie-electro dance nights are a dime......

Sunburned, gaunt and greviously underslept, the average Torontonian party-goer is in rough shape this week after the World Electronic Music Festival, or WEMF 2007 this past weekend. To nobody's surprise, WEMF isn't dead, international trance DJ Ryan "OS/2" Kruger isn't retiring and the image of thousands of ravers from the city camping in an Ontario field for three days is seemingly burned into Toronto's collective tube. It is estimated that over 5,500 people, mostly......

Say what you will about Maestro Fresh Wes and his infamous sacroiliac, but Toronto has never held down any sort of thriving hip hop scene. Save for K-oS and Brassmunk, local talent hasn’t made much of an impact outside of MuchVibe. There was that Snow song 10 years ago, but it’s widely accepted that he was embarrassing. And don't even TALK about Choclair or Kardinall Offishall as purveyors of the art form in the......