We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyway, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In other......

This Thursday night sees Toronto being graced with a performance at Trinity-St Paul's Centre by one of the finest singer/songwriter/guitarists on the face of the earth, Mr Richard Thompson. Since emerging onto the scene in the 1960s with British folk revivalists Fairport Convention, Thompson has consistently turned out masterful and wholly underrated albums of dark, character-driven songwriting and inhumanly good (but never ostentatious) acoustic and electric guitar work. Practically the very definition of a cult......

This week features a pretty packed schedule of excellent shows for your club-hopping pleasure, all no doubt hoping to take a bite out of the back-to-school entertainment budget of returning students. One of the most anticipated of which is the arrival of Sufjan Stevens and his band of Illinoisemakers, at Trinity-St Paul's Centre on Saturday September 10 with their tribute to the Prairie State. The second entry in his ambitious plan to salute all fifty......

Torontoist will take some time off from long-weekend drinking and head to church. Not to atone for his sins, of which there are plenty, but to check out what the independent literary artists of Toronto have been cooking up while squirelled away in their basement apartments, lofts and bedrooms over the winter at the Small Press Book Fair. Publishers such as Coach House, No Media Kings and Porcupine's Quill will be there and journals/zines and......