Photo by Sylvain Dumais from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Old people, prepare to get pissed off. SoundProof Magazine asked a whole bunch of Toronto bloggers—Torontoist's staff included—and asked them to make a list of their favourite Toronto albums ever. The results are in, and though 158 albums got votes (!!), the list is very recent-album heavy: Broken Social Scene's You Forgot it in People shoves some old dude named Neil Young out of the......

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......

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. Instead, what we do want to tell you about is the Toronto Public Library's stellar new local CD selection - the whole reason that the......

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: thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out......

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......

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. Tonight, controller.controller and From Fiction lead things off, Friday night belongs to C'mon and......

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 : WE MISSED METRIC LAST NIGHT! ARRRRRGGGGH. THE GUY WHO ARRANGED OUR TICKETS THOUGHT THE SHOW STARTED AT 1900H -- AND IT DID, THE NIGHT BEFORE IN OSAKA, WHEN METRIC WASN'T......

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. Laura Blue and Hugh Porter......

Neo-cons, hip-publicans, and compassionate conservatives alike can find sanctuary from the real world tomorrow night at Vice Record's label showcase tour. Headlined by Death From Above 1979, Vice Magazine is putting up their hipper-than-thou bucks for label mates DFA1979, the Panthers and Vietnam to tour North America in support of their new albums, stopping in Toronto at Lee's Palace. An appearance by Vice Magazine cohort Pat Buchanan is heavily rumoured, since Vice founder Gavin McInnes......

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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......

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......