Tonight, the Horseshoe Tavern plays host to the Pitchfork/Secretly Canadian Indie Rock Triple-Header. This is a chance to see three awesome bands you've probably never heard of... but who everyone will be talking about in a few months. If you want to get ahead of the curve, read on. San Francisco's Birdmonster headline the night. Their sound is giant. Their guitarist famously declared: "Our main goal is to rock so hard one of us faints."......

Pants off, dance off. Indie exotic dancers (as opposed to exotic indie dancers) have probably been around for a while (didn't Nathalie Portman play one in Closer?), but it's still interesting to hear that dancers at the North Toronto boutique erotique Mystique Lounge are now entertaining to the sounds of Bloc Party, Arcade Fire and Franz Ferdinand. (Not all independent artists per se, but still falling under that catch-all phrase, "indie") And it's not Mystique......

The WSFF's program of not oft seen music videos is always a good time, even if it's not always true - it can be a bit annoying to pay good money to see Franz Ferdinand's latest onscreen, when you have indeed seen it on Much ad nauseum. But, for the most part, Scene Not Heard offers up little seen gems. This year, we're curious about Howie Beck's video. To wit: 'A nebbish dance floor neophyte......

On Saturday TOist enjoyed the warm weather with a stroll through Yorkville where we saw man-about-town Stephen Dorff at Hemingway’s.  Toronto Star’s resident star watcher Rita Zekas also spotted Stephen with his new girlfriend Pam Anderson, again in Yorkville, this time outside of Café Nervosa.  He's in Toronto filming the new flick, .45, with Milla Jovovich and Andie MacDowell.  After a tiring day of people watching and celeb spotting we headed over to local jeweler......

Brit-pop has officially become a legitimate cultural subset in Toronto. The Anglo-affectionate crowd already has several successful music nights (Dance Cave, Labyrinth Lounge, or anything involving DJ Mark Holmes), clothing stores (FCUK, Vespa, anywhere that sells Ben Sherman), and now a publication. UKULA, the brains behind the monthly DJ night at Andy Poolhall and a weekly set next door at Ciao Eddie, have compiled a nice looking website and matching glossy magazine. In it's first......

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