Dundas Square gets a lot of flak for being a cold and soulless expanse of commercial neon and grey granite, and in a new music video for local singer-songwriter-producer Colin Munroe, it still is! But in this case, it's appropriate for his fantastic cover of Kanye West's mediocre "Flashing Lights" track.
Why is it so few Getting Up Festival write-ups avoid using the word "bling"? It's neither funny nor cute, and distracts attention from a rare Toronto appearance of Nas (a man who predates the word by over ten years). This weekend's Getting Up Festival was unquestionably Toronto's biggest-ever hip hop and hip hop culture showcase, and perhaps need more recognition for that. All references to "bling" aside, clothing designer Mark Ecko put his money where his musical tastes are to bring the best of the mainstream rap to the city for a trial-run of the gigantic festival at the Dock's. Fortuitously, the originally overpriced $70 tickets were slashed in half to provide the Torontoist Club a chance to get out to Getting Up. Here's what we saw:
Edgewater Hotel Sign Comes Down
If You Tweet It, He Will Come
Historicist: "The city that nobody loves"
Vandalist: My Dog's Name Is "Shadow"
Todd Barry a Not-So Excitable Boy
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