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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'velvetrevolver'

March 30, 2005

The Blue Jays are playing their Grapefruit League home finale against the Philadelphia Phillies today. Opening Day starter and former Cy-Young award-winner Roy Halladay will take the mound in this 1993 World Series re-match. With their season beginning in Tampa Bay this upcoming Monday, there are various questions regarding the Jays in 05. Of utmost importance to their fortunes this year is the needed return of both Halladay and outfielder Vernon Wells to their 2003......

Continue Reading "Jays are Ready to Rock"

January 7, 2005

80's pop-rockers INXS are looking to Toronto for a new lead singer. Famous for their inspiring hit single "Beds are Burning" and recent blockbuster "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?", the Austrailian band will hold public auditions for a new vocalist in Toronto - eight years after their original lead singer Michael Hutchence committed suicide. The talent search is part of yet another Mark Burnett-infested reality show, arrogantly titled Rock Star. Much like The Apprentice,......

Continue Reading ""INXS Idol" or "Who Wants to be Scott Weiland?""

November 22, 2004

After the current retro 80's fad dies down, Torontoist believes the next hype decade will naturally be the 90's. But for everyone to start wearing flannel and be nostalgic for Mudhoney and Candlebox, those bands have to first stop touring. This week Toronto welcomes two such alt-rock holdovers in Frank Black and the Pixies and Slash in his G'n'R type-band Velvet Revolver. Even though Black Francis is overweight and bald, and Slash can no longer......

Continue Reading "Here Comes Your Band"

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