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Next Saturday, Toronto Poetry Slam brings you the last slam of the season, with some of the city’s brightest and wordiest battling it out for the last remaining place in the semi finals. Finalists will have a shot at the 2008 Toronto Poetry Slam Team, which competes at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and the US National Poetry Slam (this year to be held in Madison, Wisconsin).

For a Monday night show at the Horseshoe, there was quite a bit of enthusiasm for the excellent bill of The Rosebuds and Land of Talk. Even though the attendance was a little lacklustre, both bands gave inspired performances that provided for a strong double-bill of energetic rock that got the week off to a good start.

series buying up North America's oldest company?

Though they live deep in the heart of the "Red States," Raleigh, North Carolina's The Nein are making a habit of visiting the country described as "essentially Honduras." Signed to Hamilton's Sonic Unyon, the art-punk trio (and sometimes quatro) don't seem to mind Canada's progressive values and rampant dogsledding, as they play the Wavelength concert series this Sunday night at Sneaky Dee's and Tuesday at the Horseshoe. Catch the post-post punk band before they become the post-post-post punk band. Listen to Nein's "Handout" here and look out for the Nein debut album is due in stores in early 2005.

When Jeremy Hinzman signed up for the United States Army, it seems it did not occur to him that may have to go to war.