After being hotly anticipated for months- at least by stores- All Hallows' Eve is finally here. If you're at all concerned, the so-called North American Halloween Prevention Inc. has released a charity single, "Do They Know It's Halloween?" (It's really a spoof of the well-intended-but-slightly-patronizing "Do They Know It's Christmas?") It features a slew of Canadian musicians, including Arcade Fire, Buck 65, Sloan, Feist, and Wolf Parade; even better, all proceed go to UNICEF.......

Torontoist has lots going on this weekend - Juelz Santana on Friday (wardrobe: tuxedo), Lady Sovereign on Saturday (wardrobe: hoodie) but this weekend officially starts tonight with Islands at the Drake (wardrobe: Starbucks t-shirt). After ex-Unicorns Nick Diamonds and J'aime Tambeur reminded us of the importance of benefit songs at Halloween, their first headlining Toronto show sells out. Is this because we loved The Unicorns that much? Or because Do They Know It's Halloween was......

As featured in the Toronto Star and the New York Times, and just in time for the howl-iday weekend, it's the Islands-as-Geldof benefit CD, Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? There's no real analysis needed here, so here you have the basics: The Islands are two individuals from the Unicorns, who wrote the song to counter the absurdism of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The track and its four versions feature impressive-slash-slightly unnoticable contributions by David......

As the title of this post suggests, there are a number of pressing items regarding Mint Record's The Organ. They are as follows: 1) According to Chart Magazine, bassist Ashley Webber has left the band. Also according to Chart, The Killers are "the next big thing." Rumour has it that Organ's 604 label boss Chad Kroeger will be taking up bass for the band. 2) Organ lead singer Katie Sketch is featured on a......