Iraq War Resisters.
Some good news for this lot yesterday, as the Canadian parliament voted to let’em stay. Read More
The Youth of Today
Ireland’s Answer to Kid Sister? photo credit: Dublin Street Blog Lots of startled pissing and moaning on the Irish Bog o’ Sphere this week, as the young musos once again get startled that there’s a crop of little shitehawk neon dabbling hipsters tearing up behind them. One of the commentariat at On The Record described how “if I go to a show abroad, there’s a much wider spread of ages.” It’s very true, you... Read More
Metropolitan Morons Podcast
Driven by the example and antics of our friends in the Suburban Super Heroes, three Soundtracksforthem personal in an active service unit in Toronto, dusted off an old computer mic and prepared these fragments of audio for a hostile internet. Discussion runs from police raids on Toronto clubs and the super club Circa, to the general Queen West “thing.” There’s also rants on a Street Fighter revival, the state of the Gaybourhood,... Read More
Free Chicken Legs
Do a clickity clak on the above for more… Walking down the block for my morning coffee in Tim Hortons a few days ago, I came across this insane line up winding about two streets up, wrapping itself around a church. Of course, given that the area’s know as little Portugal, I seized on the idea that there must be some sort of religious festival on and the local Catholics were getting well into the spirit of it. But no. A Portuguese... Read More
Gig Reviews: Crystal Castles and DJ Sega
photo credit: Jalapeno It was quite by accident that I found myself dragged along to the home coming gig of Toronto’s Crystal Castles on March 29th last. It’s been quite some time since their supposedly accidental release blew up all over Myspace. And apart from enjoying one or two of their remixes, especially of that Klaxon’s track – I’d diverted my eyes from anything carrying their rather obscured visages. Apparently,... Read More
Theatre Review: Disco Pigs In Toronto
photo credit: rofanator Quite a few years ago, the extent of my access to “under ground” culture came in morsels through the magazine racks of Eason’s dominated news agent chains. Still, there was always goodness to be found in the racks of other cut throat bookstores that pop up to profit from over stocks and cheap rents in vacant small town shopping centre units. One play that continuously made its way on to the bargain... Read More
A Pair of Skates, A Stick and Shinny
photo credit: Banff Lake Louise I started playing hockey this year, or rather shinny. Shinny for beginners, just to be precise. People show up, they throw their sticks in the middle of the rink and once split up in two groups, one lucky team gets to be team hi viz. I don’t believe through the whole season we ever kept track of the score. But believe me, you keep track of your own. Although once I was told I got a hat trick and stared back... Read More
Fake Pharma Ads Get Toronto Curious.
Over the last week or so, fake pharmaceutical ads for a drug styling itself “Obay” started jumping up across Ontario. Immediately the mind starts springing with”hey its corporate a rip off of Shepard Fairey (aka OBEY).” But no it wasn’t. With the transit commission and the ad regulatory body refusing to budge and give up the ghost of who was doing the advertising, it was left to the Torontoist to suss it out. Read More
Fresh Drop The Lime
Plenty of props goes to the Toronto based blog and promo crew Curb Crawlers, over there you’ll typically find local DJ Sek One dishing out the wobbly goodies with steady chunks of MP3 fibre. Usually Curb Crawlers are the sorts that bring through anything in and around Trouble and Bass to Toronto, recently that’s meant Passions and some months ago Drop the Lime. I caught Sek One Djing at a Knifehandchop show recently, an other wise very... Read More
Toronto Burns While I Fiddle With WordPress
As I was sitting in, going bleary eyed, starting routinely through lists of Word Press plug-ins and template hacks – a mega fire was blazing about fifteen or twenty minutes walk away from where I live. It was such a strong fire it consumed a whole city block. A friend said it had something to do with a crystal meth factory in an old second floor ware house going up, but the fact that this happens just shortly after the whole Queen W and Bathurst... Read More
