On Thursday night at the Silver Dollar, Jay Reatard's show got ugly. The Memphis band's shows usually do, but almost never like Thursday's: Reatard punched a patron who climbed on stage square in the face and angrily packed up his gear (video above), before Dan Burke, the Dollar's legendary and notorious booker, hopped on stage himself, delivering a tirade against Reatard ("fuck this American...that's fucking pussy shit"). On his blog on Friday, Reatard recapped......

When local promoter Dan Burke so unabashedly declared “less drugs, more shows” as what he looks forward to for this calendar year, no one believed the drugs portion of that resolution—but Friday is reason to start believing the show portion. Friday night will gather many to the Silver Dollar to celebrate the CD release of local experimental composer Katie Stelmanis. Widely recognized for her contributions to all-female baroque rockers Galaxy (R.I.P.) and alt-gospel howlers Bruce......

Tokyo's Zoobombs played their final show last night at the Silver Dollar after playing five shows in Toronto in the last week. Organized by the infamous Dan Burke, the shows were an effort to attract industry interest in the Japanese band without any help from the industry at all. In a direct offensive against last week's CMW festival, Burke's aim seemed to be to have a successful slew of shows with the same band "without......

"I'm Dan Burke and I decide who rock stars are!" said an inspired Dan Burke as he trolled up and down Augusta on Saturday night, handing out flyers. The former Maclean's journalist and daring club promoter was getting the word out for his anti-Canadian Music Week shows when he ruffled someone's feathers - or more likely, someone ruffled his. The exchange was difficult to hear, only that he called one woman a "cunt" and moved......

The Adam Brown, lynchpin of the Montreal independent music scene, played to an ever-rackety crowd at the regular Sunday night Wavelength show at Sneaky D(is)ees. Evidence of this racketiness were the numerous crowd-surfers, stage-joiners, and sold-out The Adam Brown CDs. The group, becoming something of a sensation around Toronto, had ran out of copies of their Even the Skies are Blue before even taking the stage - a bit of a rarity at Wavelength.......

Torontoist has written about upstart U of T publication the Naive Journal before, and remembers being impressed by the publication's attempts to look at an overexposed topic (i.e. homelessness) with fresh eyes. The Naive's next issue, the zine's fourth, explores the well-travelled ground of the consumer/anti-consumer debate. The editors at the Naive Journal recap some of the debate's feister contests like U of T alumnus turned globe-trotting anti consumerist documentary maker Naomi Klein vs. cheeky,......