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...Or the end of an era as Hostage Life return and then quickly and mysteriously disband while on top of their game.

If you read only one album review this summer (where's your attention span?), make it this one, because if there's one local band you should listen to this year, it's Horses. There's no gimmick, no trend, no all-star roster here (how's that attention span holding up?)—just four dudes with heart, substance, stories, and balls. Their new EP, Brotherly Love, is available now through Juicebox Recording Co., and its roots-tinged, working-class earnestness is as authentic as it gets.

In the latest chapter for one of the area's longest-running bands, Teenage Head are celebrating the release of a new album this week with a concert on Friday at Jeff Healey's. Originally hailing from Hamilton, Teenage Head were one of the seminal bands at the infancy of the Toronto punk scene, along with bands like The Scenics, The Viletones, The Mods, and The Ugly. Frequently cited as Canada's answer to The Ramones—although their new wave and, at times, rockabilly sound was actually more like the Blasters—Teenage Head's reputation for wild live shows was never really successfully captured on record, so they never really achieved the commercial success they probably deserved. But they are forever tied to this city for providing several of Toronto's most notorious music-related incidents.

Photo by Caesar Sebastian.

Do you love the music of Daft Punk? Perhaps you hate it. Whatever your feelings on their music, we all know it's better without Kanye West shouting pointlessly over the top.

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. Punk Politico BY DZGNBOY...

Some musicians are professional wallowers. Others are professional romantics. And still others are professional fun-havers. Both Toronto's Spiral Beach and Brighton's The Go! Team fall into that last category—performers who embrace the sheer joy of performing. But more than that, they are young, talented, and famous, they know they are young, talented, and famous, and they're grateful for being young, talented and famous. Although Beach's Maddy Wilde and the Team's Ninja may strike diva...

A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night.

For his entry to Touch Up Toronto, Alden R. Cudanin sent us this photo of the south side of College just east of Bathurst from about 1920, doctored to include the now-ubiquitous iPod ads. Of course, back then, in addition to billboard advertising, Apple also targeted the ever-growing praxinoscope-owning demographic, their ads featuring shadowed men and women dancing the Charleston to the latest Gershwin (or, occasionally, Daft Punk) joint.

Canadian culture is very difficult to define. There are very few unifying traits that identify a person as a true Canadian. Sure, for the most part there's hockey and the fact that we're all polite, but even so, is that all it takes to make us a part of the "true north strong and free"? Well, according to a new documentary entitled Let's All Hate Toronto, one thing that brings all Canadians together is their hatred for Toronto.

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You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater.

Sometimes, on Torontoist’s laziest days, it will drag itself out of bed just long enough to flick on the BBC’s 6 music internet radio service, the BBC’s gift to the world’s fans of British indie music, to listen to the 6 music breakfast show, which for ages was almost always preceded by a Don Letts introduction, (if it wasn’t someone doing a bad impression of David Bowie doing the intro.) Which, to be honest, is probably the most exposure Torontoist has had to Don Letts.

Torontoist has two bloodshot eyes and two sore feet after last night’s Juan Mclean-James Murphy “secret” show. While it’s unclear if Juan Mclean goes by his album-name, The Juan Mclean, when DJing, it is clear that he has the shiniest head on the DFA Label.

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Three art heavyweights take Harbourfront by storm tonight, when they read from their comics and sketchbooks. Some interesting facts: Castrée's work comes with recorded music played by herself, Gary Panter once designed sets for Pee Wee's playhouse and Tony Millionaire has a children's book about sock monkeys. All three are worth a bit of your time and curiousity.

Phoenix will surprise you. This seemingly skipped over Parisian band are known to put on an amazing show and have the music to back it up. Phoenix are a synth-pop rock band that play a fairly eclectic range of music, but holding it all together are truly enjoyable well written songs. They are making their first Toronto appearance tonight at the Opera House and it hasn’t sold out yet. If you are looking for something to do tonight, get a ticket now.

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