If you think the holiday season's message of giving and charity and love is temporary, think again. Local bands have come together to produce the Friends of Bellwoods Compilation, which will raise funds for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Ex-Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger, The Paramedics (starring Bry Webb of the Constantines), Ohbijou and The D'Urbervilles will be playing the CD release party this Friday at Tranzac, where you can also pick up......

What everyone has been speculating for months has been made official. Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler a.k.a. Death From Above 1979 have called it quits. In a post on the group’s Myspace page, Jesse writes: thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out......

Toronto fashionistas behold: the new Death From Above 1979 scarf has arrived! The city's newest trend comes to us not via New York or LA, or even an episode of the O.C., but from the Toronto noise/metal band Death From Above 1979. Band members Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler have been spotted wearing the popular winter accessory on their current European tour, and have been credited with single-handedly reviving the scarf industry in North......