Spoon have made only one big misstep in their ten-plus years of recording albums: Gimme Fiction. The 2005 album, a follow-up to 2002's absolutely brilliant Kill the Moonlight, marked a step backward for the band's music and a step forward for its accessibility––an album of decent, friendly, straightforward, catchy, and ultimately forgettable rock songs, an album able to retain the band's old fans while hooking tons of new ones. Gimme Fiction––save for (pictured) lead......

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! Flurries. A couple moments of spring now buried in another few days of snow. Torontoist longs for the days of summer and streetscapes such as the one above taken by avp17. Strolling along the bustle of West Queen West,......

At the end of the second verse of one of Bright Eyes' new songs, "Reinvent The Wheel"—a eulogy for a dead musical idol, possibly Elliott Smith—lead singer Conor Oberst laments to his fallen hero that "you never understood what we loved you for." Coming as the line does in the song, with guitar chords and drums emphatically struck together to highlight Oberst's voice and the backing vocals, the moment is both uplifting and tragic, a......

If nothing else, we like two things at Torontoist: the TTC, and bands about spoons. But before there was Spoon, one of the best bands currently making music (and certainly the best one out of Austin, Texas) there was The Spoons, a new-wave band coming straight from the hip and edgy streets of...Burlington. The band enjoyed some short-lived success in the 1980s, especially on the college circuit, and fizzled out as the decade came to......

In the year that the popularity of the ringtone might have outweighed the popularity of the single, Toronto-I-S-T comes up with the top ten songs that mattered in 2005. 1. Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - "Welcome to Jamrock" Called "the reggae song of the decade" by the New York Times, "Welcome to Jamrock" is the cross-over hit that shouldn't be: Unlike his contemporaries, Marley the youngest didn't have to employ an RnB hook from Beyonce......

I'm *sixeyes. I'm back. And Torontoist is sick of radio. The kind of crud that gets played on the type of stations that advertise themselves as 'Music for the Workplace'. Celine Dion (a little restraint please), Christina Aguilera (a lot of restraint, puh-leeze), Shania Twain ("Don't", that's the name of the song... so Torontoist has got to say... Please, please, please... doooooonnnnn'tttttt) and ("It only hurts when I'm Breathing"... then doooooonnnnn'tttttt)... Torontoist could go......

A look at some choice live music going down over the next week: Sunday nights are turning into the nights for rock in Toronto. Case in point, this Sunday you can either catch Austin's indie gods Spoon at the Opera House with the UK's The Clientele to promote their latest platter, Gimme Fiction. It's an interesting pairing - following up The Clientele's gentle chamber pop with the lean rock attack of Britt Daniel and co.,......

It's a question that comes up on almost a nightly basis: Where can athletic supporters hear the best whorish pop and classic hip-hop? Well, consider tomorrow night a no-brainer. Several Eye writers, including but not limited to Dave "D-Mo" Morris, will be playing an athletic supporter-centric mix of Run DMC, J.Timberlake, Spoon, Serge G., X-Tina, tatu, Public Enemy, De La Soul and so much more. Starts at 8PM TOMORROW night at a little place we......

Either every concert in Toronto is sold out, or is over-crowded with passive-aggressive scenesters who ask for cigarettes all the time. Come on! Cigarettes are so bad for you. Mixtape: 1. Dresden Dolls - "Girl Anachronism" These people are opening for the Nine Inch Nails in May. Get tickets here, if so inclined. 2. A Northern Chorus - "The Shepherd The Chauffeur" Opening track of Can-heroes' new album. 3. Spoon - "Turn Camera On" or,......

Last week, Torontoist was criticized for the inclusion of an Ol' Dirty Bastard song for the second time in the short run of our mixtape series. If this were a few years ago, Torontoist would have probably responded to the fairly legitimate beef by posting only ODB Mp3's today. But that was us then. Now, we take a cue from the populist French leader Jacques Chirac and take a more diplomatic approach to the problem.......