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Attention GenXers: there’s a new way to tickle your nostalgia bone that doesn’t involve watching VH1 I Love The ‘90s reruns. Enter Weezer – The 8-bit Album, a free covers compilation released by netlabel Pterodactyl Squad, which features songs by yesteryear’s favourite nerd-chic rockers recast using the same blips and bleeps your Game Boy used to make during all those sleepless Tetris sessions. Boasting a first-rate lineup of today’s brightest chiptunes maestros (including Toronto’s own PDF Format), the album’s been making big waves across the interwebs, banking mentions on numerous widely read blogs (including Weezer’s).

FILM: BAFTA award-winning director Rex Bloomstein's new documentary, An Independent Mind, is having its North American premiere this evening at Innis Town Hall. The film investigates freedom of expression today, sixty years after its enshrinement in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The screening is presented by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression along with Hot Docs and The Walrus. After the film, there will be a panel discussion on the limits of free expression with John Miller, professor of journalism at Ryerson; Frank Addario, a media defense lawyer; Mary Deanne Shears, former managing editor of the Toronto Star, and Carol Off, who co-hosts CBC Radio One's As It Happens. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), 6:30 p.m., $10 ($8 for students).