Results tagged “emilyhaines”

Isn't a fantasy supposed to be unrestrained? A wondrous, strange imagining? It's doubtful that Metric named their new album, Fantasies, out today on Last Gang, with an intended tongue in cheek, but indeed what we get is a collection of bland, mediocre songs that don't offer anything new and don't really take us anywhere.

As part of our ongoing commitment to being the media outlet of choice for all things Emily Haines, Torontoist offers the following web page, which reveals a previously unknown chapter in the career of this popular Canadian musician.

We're a little late with this week's music listing--blame the election! Er, okay, maybe someone just got immersed in learning a bit of Flash and let it slip. It won't happen again.

i (heart) music has just released their list of the 33 hottest bands in Canada for 2006, as selected by a more than forty Canadian music bloggers (including yours truly, current Torontoist contributor Carrie Musgrave, Said the Gramophone, former Torontoist contributor Frank Yang from Chromewaves, and lots of others). We don't mean to gloat, but it looks like we're still the best city for music in the country.

Save Our St. Clair, the group that fought against the St. Clair right of way has reared its head again. The group has backed four candidates whose wards run along the route of the right of way. Three of them are incumbents (Palacio, Nunziata and Michael Walker). John Sewell who's running against the right of way's strongest defender Joe Mihevc gets a strong thumbs up from SOS.

Think you're the world's biggest Metric fan? Here's a rare chance to prove it.

If you're a listener to the CBC Radio 3 podcast then you already know about their free ticket giveaway. On Oct. 1st at the Kool Haus Radio 3 will be presenting See Vous Play, a cross-Canadian showcase of independent music featuring The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Emily Haines and the Soft Skeletons, Les Trois Accords, and Les Breastfeeders. The best part it's all free. So no, Ticketmaster won't be screwing you over on this one.

Looking to check out some live music this week? Here's your listing of what's happening around the city between August 7-13.

We want to wish the women (and men) at Shameless magazine a happy second birthday. Over the last two years the mag has been nominated for two awards by the UTNE reader and even voted the best magazine by Now magazine. They've gotten mixed tapes from Emily Haines, doled out advice, interviewed some of the best female comic book artists, and taught girls that mainstream culture's ideals of beauty aren't the be all and end all. They also throw really fun parties.

Hands up: how many of you saw the MMVAs on Sunday? Yeah, didn't think so. Now, some of you might actually be interested in what happened so we give you this blow-by-blow written by the National Post's Aaron Wherry on his blog pop (all love). A few items of interest:

Places you might find Emily Haines and her trademark short-skirt:

Sadly, Torontoist has learnt through comments on this here blog, stille post and a not working website that the Ear to the Ground Fest won't be happening.

Looking up Emily Haines' miniskirt is now a university-sanctioned frosh week event. At least that's implicit in the big Ryerson University frosh event this year. The 'little college that could' throws a surprisingly capable frosh week party tomorrow night on the Island, with the aforementioned miniskirt and her band Metric, as well as K*Naan (pronounced KAY-nawn), Funkadesi amongst others.

Japan will get a dose of Cancontent this weekend, when Broken Social Scene, The Dears, Stars, Death from Above 1979 and Metric drop in on Osaka and Toykyo for a mini-tour called "Canada Wet." Why is the tour called Canada Wet? We cannot tell you. Perhaps Emily Haines plans to throw out a case of bottled water, in keeping with her behaviour at the Mod Club show, when a crowd-pacifying maneuver was required. Wet or dry, the concert is a hard-slogged venture, come to fruition thanks to Nori Tsuzuki, a Japanese music promoter who has been trying to get such a show on since participating in a CMW panel in 2004. From Jam Canoe:

"We were confident that the market was ready for the name of 'Canada' and have decided to use the name everywhere to prove our vision. We feel that the people in the industry was not ready to use the name 'Canada,' but not the audience. With all the incredible buzz going on with Canada Wet, we think we have successfully changed the image of Canada and Canadian music in our market."

The Year that Was: We won't presume to have seen it all, or read it all, or eaten it all. And so, a digested list of good things that happened in and around the GTA and the universe this year. Okay, in and around this year.

Often referred to as the Broken Social Scene babes (of which Feist is included), Emily Haines of Metric and Amy Milan of Stars are indeed scorching hot. However that is not the issue here. The constant recognition of their natural, milk-fed beauty shouldn't trump the importance of their musical contributions to our fair city, or their actual music. So Torontoist will have to drool over the two in a later post. (This will be necessary since Chart Magazine dedicated a whole issue to Emily Haines's hotness, unfairly ignoring the hot Amy Milan).

Tonight, though, there are cinematic options aplenty. From Scorcese, (always an Oscar Bridesmaid, never a bride...until now?), and from two dynamite duets: Jeunet and Tautou, and Haines and Maddin. They sound like ice dancing pairs.