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Photo by Sylvain Dumais from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

If you think the holiday season's message of giving and charity and love is temporary, think again. Local bands have come together to produce the Friends of Bellwoods Compilation, which will raise funds for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Ex-Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger, The Paramedics (starring Bry Webb of the Constantines), Ohbijou and The D'Urbervilles will be playing the CD release party this Friday at Tranzac, where you can also pick up a copy of the CD.

We realize that we probably talk about Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, way too much. So we're not going to talk about his free show on Saturday night at North York Central Library, also featuring The Creeping Nobodies, Hank, Ninja High School, and Bob Wiseman. Nope, not a word.

What everyone has been speculating for months has been made official. Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler a.k.a. Death From Above 1979 have called it quits. In a post on the group’s Myspace page, Jesse writes:

Last night, at The Worldwide Short Film Festival, Torontoist was lucky enough to catch Scene not Herd, a collection of 16 music videos assembled by journalist Sandy Hunter. Both the music and the quality and uniqueness of the submissions was absolutely incredible. There were a few big names (Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, The Go! Team, Death From Above 1979, Ladytron, and The Darkness), but plenty of lesser-known gems as well - just the right mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar.

Selling out a show is pretty impressive. Selling out four shows is definitely a sign you've arrived. Granted, local two-piece Death From Above 1979 did it in a smallish venue in their hometown, but it's still a feat. Starting tonight, DFA1979 will be taking over the Horseshoe for four shows in three nights, each show featuring a different formidable opening bill.

A friend of a friend of a second cousin of TOist, a Canadian in Japan, sends us this dispatch following the Cancontent mini-tour that shook up Tokyo last week. Note how capital letters are used to express disatisfaction over the show's early start time :

You’ve heard it here before.  You’ve read it in the New York Times and Spin magazine and countless other publications.  Montreal is where it’s at and the Arcade Fire is THE Canadian band.  Why even bother to offer an adjective, there’s just too many too choose from.  The critically-and-David Bowie-acclaimed Arcade Fire is “Canada’s most intriguing rock band,” as declared by this week’s Time Magazine’s Canadian Edition, on newsstands now.

An appearance by Vice Magazine cohort Pat Buchanan is heavily rumoured, since Vice founder Gavin McInnes is all best friends with the RW fanatic now. Buchanan was in fact spotted at the Houston, Texas stop of the trendy tour, singing along to DFA1979's "Black History Month". Of course, in keeping with Vice Magazine style guide, Mr Buchanan was being ironic.

Scott Kaija, guitarist

With the last Barenaked Ladies album, the city of Toronto has forever etched its name in annals music history. But besides BNL, this is a place that once saw Rick James and Neil Young bump out soul songs in Yorkville; that welcomed John Lennon's first solo concert; that was setting for more than one Mya video. Toronto is a city so steeped in music history that it would be outright irresponsible for the Torontoist to ignore this musical heritage. As such, each mercredi, or Wednesday, the Torontoist will offer some links to (legal) downloads or just info on our Toronto-centric music picks. Jam!

Toronto fashionistas behold: the new Death From Above 1979 scarf has arrived! The city's newest trend comes to us not via New York or LA, or even an episode of the O.C., but from the Toronto noise/metal band Death From Above 1979. Band members Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler have been spotted wearing the popular winter accessory on their current European tour, and have been credited with single-handedly reviving the scarf industry in North America. Check the new video for the single "Romantic Rights" here.