Kincardine-born, Mississauga-bred, Toronto-based, and Berlin-bound, Joel Gibb is the musical and managerial head of The Hidden Cameras, the fantastic and always well-populated music collective whose members have included Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Reg Vermue (Gentlemen Reg), Laura Barrett, Maggie MacDonald (Republic of Safety), Dave Meslin (founder of the Toronto Public Space Committee), Bob Wiseman, Steve Kado (founder of Blocks Recording Club, member of Barcelona Pavilion and Ninja High School), Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say......

Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras (top) and Torquil Campbell of Stars (bottom). Photos by David Topping. Finally, a Frosh Week concert worthy of U of T. After years of mediocre bands, increasingly-irrelevant bands, or good bands who underperform, the university brought Stars and the Hidden Cameras to campus for a free concert for students. Loaded with alumni, both bands played better than anyone could've expected for a free show, with the Cameras' ecstatic......

For a band with an entire album named for Mississauga, The Hidden Cameras and Toronto sure haven't seen much of each other of late. Friday night at the Phoenix was the band's first full-length show within the GTA's walls in almost a year, the too-long hiatus forced by (pictured) lead man Joel Gibb's Berlin exile; as he goeth, so goeth the band. Live show as interactive spectacle has always been the motif at Cameras shows,......

Who Is DJ Cyber-Rap? Depending what circles you run with, this question may have been nagging you for quite some time. If you’re a member of Stillepost, the message board that plays hosts to almost all of Toronto’s scenesters, you’ve known about DJ Cyber-Rap since 2005. That’s when the 59 year-old widower (born Robert “Ronald” Marie MacDougall) first started posting in the Toronto forum of Stillepost from internet cafes, using painfully effortful internet jargon in......

Photo of the Hidden Cameras' frontman, Joel Gibb, from The Music Gallery, April 2, 2006. The new Hidden Cameras album, Awoo, has leaked, well before its August 18th release date. There are two reasons that you, the average Torontoist reader, should care about Awoo and the Hidden Cameras: the album is really good [refer below to point #1] and Mississauga kindof sucks [refer below to point #2].......

Starting next Tuesday and running for five nights, The Hidden Cameras will be putting on a special series of shows in conjunction with the Toronto Dance Theatre at Harbourfront, entitled "In The Boneyard". Head Camera Joel Gibb gave Pitchfork a sneak preview of what to expect from the performances, which will begin with the Cameras providing musical accompaniment for the dancers but trading places as the show progresses. All new music was written especially for......

Maggie MacDonald is a busy woman. As one of the most visible members of the Hidden Cameras, MacDonald is often seen on Toronto's stages bopping along to Joel Gibb's catchy anthems to enemas, fear of commitment and golden showers. MacDonald also plays in a number of other bands in the city including the Dating Service and Republic of Safety. So it's not like she needs another project on her plate. So Torontoist was pretty surprised......

"So I said to myself, 'If they can do it with a photograph, why can't I do it with a bar of chocolate?'" - Willy Wonka And if he could do it with a Wonka bar, why can't Robert Kennedy do it with Joel Gibb and the The Hidden Cameras? Following up last night's Hidden Cameras show, their biggest Toronto club gig to date, Toronto's evil evil gay-folk-church-pop 15-piece gets split up into millions of......

Can I call you Jens? Thank you for playing one of the best Wavelength shows I've ever seen. You and your ukelele charmed us all. Soldiering on despite a high fever, that's dedication and we hope that you feel appreciated. You mentioned that you wanted to stay in Toronto, well we'd love to have you. We seem to lose musicians to bigger glitzier places like New York, and Paris and Berlin. Think of it as......

A brief overview of Toronto music happenings finds some exciting and some not-so-exciting news. Aw yeah. - Dizzee Rasclat Bumbal Squat is coming out with new sneaks. Unfortunately they are Nikes. The up side is he will be at the Opera House on April 28. - Hipe-with-an-'i' NYC band The Bravery make their T-dot debut on April 13. - The RZA is rzarecting the Wu ideology for a new book, Wu-Tang Manual: Enter the 36......