In celebration of 60 years and counting for the local, legendary Horseshoe Tavern, Joel Plaskett Emergency will be performing six consecutive shows this week beginning Monday, each day playing in chronological order an album in their discography of full-lengths. After seeing its days as a blacksmith shop, a strip club, and of course the host of some of the most legendary first time Toronto performances including Willie Nelson, The Talking Heads, and Neutral Milk Hotel,......

As long as there have been cowboys, there have been gay cowboys. Now that we consider it, Torontoist isn't sure there are any real cowboys any more (well, other than those ones). But if living in Toronto teaches you only one thing, it's that there are gays; gays who want their dress-up parties. This Thursday marks the second appearance of the amazingly-named Steers and Queers, a quarterly queer country night at the Dakota Tavern.......

When the February blahs inevitably morph into the March mehs, what one needs is a solid dose of music that forces you to pull up your bootstraps, literally and figuratively. In the last several years, country music has increased in popularity: biopics of its more notable innovators are almost always hits, and judging from a cursory glance at how much cowboy boots fetch at vintage shops, the tipping point has already happened. Some might attribute......