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MUSIC: Tonight, head out to the Danforth for what will likely be one of the best shows of the summer (sorry, Dave Matthews Band). Final Fantasy is playing!!! He's joined by the similarly electroclassical Nico Muhly, along with experimental musician Doveman and indie acoustic singer Samamidon, who are all visiting us from New York. Just yesterday, new tracks from Final Fantasy's two upcoming EPs were released to Zoilus and Stereogum, and they are predictably awesome; we cannot encourage you enough to go tonight. Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth Avenue), 8 p.m., $20.

As the subject for a serious music book, Céline Dion––amazing or not––seems like an odd choice. In the latest book in the 33⅓ series, however––a series which typically looks at albums like the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds or Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures or the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.––Carl Wilson, probably Toronto's pre-eminent music critic, takes it upon himself to "[strive] to understand Céline's global popularity," in the process "fac[ing] the question of what drives personal taste––and whether it's possible to change it." Wilson, needless to add, is a brave, brave man.

What Going Great was most known for in later years, however, was its hosts. The entire run was helmed by Chris Makepeace, 1980s Meatballs and My Bodyguard teen heartthrob (and brother of our Panoramaist contributor Tony), with additional reporting duties by Megan "Anne Of Green Gables" Follows and Keanu "Blue Pill/Red Pill" Reeves.

Over the past month, Hillary Clinton has been on the hunt for a campaign song, with her "exploratory committee" website inviting her followers to vote on a winner. Finalists included born-and-bred American bands like U2 and Shania Twain, as well as tried-and-true musical legends like Smash Mouth. This morning, however, the winner was announced. And Hilary Clinton's 2008 campaign song is...that Céline Dion song from that Air Canada commercial! It's such a good song it didn't even need to be on the ballot to win!

Hot off their recent Polaris Prize nomination, Malajube used the momentum to pack Lee's Palace on Saturday night with rabid (mostly French) fans and those curious to see what all the fuss is about. They certainly didn't disappoint, and even with much of the crowd not understanding the lyrics, the catchy hooks managed to get many people dancing (gasp!) and yelling all sorts of things at the band in franglais.

I'm *sixeyes. I'm back. And Torontoist is sick of radio. The kind of )... Torontoist could go on, but that would be redundant (but it does feel good). Yeah, Torontoist just noticed that all the c.r.a.p. referenced was female... oh, but there are some 'males' who terrorize radio as well. Tim McGraw ("Live Like You Were Dying"... this is Celine Dion on steroids... not an improvement), Daniel Powter ("Bad Day" or is it "Had A Bad Day"... whenever he unleashes one of his oooooohowwwooohowww's Torontoist has to think, 'Oh, so that's what a squirrel sounds like when it's run over). There are many more, it's just that Torontoist doesn't recognize who these guys are and therefore can't make fun of them.

Excuse the lateness of this post - the Live 8 announcement was this morning - but we've been working on calming ourselves down all day. The jaw-dropping news of a lame-centric Live 8 concert left us in a state of speechless, head shaking shock. After throwing a few chairs and kicking a few garbage cans, we decided that Live 8 might be the worst concert ever held on Canadian soil. Here's our exasperated reaction:

When Air Canada sought out a spokesperson for their flight back into the black, they were looking for the musical equivalent to airline food. Or the musical equivalent to those uncomfortable pillows. Or those cheesy headphones. At any rate, they got Celine Dion. Last August, Air Canada inked a much publicized deal with Dion to act as the airline's Official Voice - that's voice, and voice only. Air Canada thought it more prudent not to purchase rights to Celine's face. So, in true diva fashion, the resourceful Dion strutted over to American Airlines for a promotion in their entertainment magazine. And really, you can't blame the girl for getting her earn on. She has made more than $77 million in ticket sales alone this year, and there are still plenty more major airlines out there who would love to use her attractive French Canadian grill to sell tickets.

But back to Parrish's inflammatory parliament turn. Torontoist agrees that there's much to fear in four more years o' Bush, but Ms. Parrish could have been a little more mindful of the 51,000,000 Americans who voted for Kerry. And she is an MP. As the pseudo-journalistic riffraff that we are, Torontoist feels comfortable shouting the occasional html invective. But we're not MPs. And we don't hurl our opinions in places where they can wreak havoc on International diplomacy. Except maybe that time we started yelling anti-Bush slurs in Texas.