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A day late this week, but when you see the crazy number of new shows recently announced, you’ll understand why. With so much variety, there should be something for everyone coming up in the next month or so. Due to the large number of show listings, there will be no links this week (hey, it takes a LONG time to link up this stuff, my friends).

It's that time again. This week will reflect some of the older fat men who came into Mississauga for two excellent shows this week. And for no particular reason, there are more videos too.

It was a lean, mean and ruthlessly efficient Pixies that opened up a two-night stand at Arrow Hall last night - okay, maybe Frank Black Francis wasn't quite so lean. A long time coming – more than seven months since the shows were announced and tickets went on sale – the sold-out crowd of 9,000 composed of equal parts present-day indie kids and aged hipsters was pretty damned anxious by the time their heroes finally took the stage just after 9.

After the current retro 80's fad dies down, Torontoist believes the next hype decade will naturally be the 90's. But for everyone to start wearing flannel and be nostalgic for Mudhoney and Candlebox, those bands have to first stop touring. This week Toronto welcomes two such alt-rock holdovers in Frank Black and the Pixies and Slash in his G'n'R type-band Velvet Revolver.