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Some good news for this lot yesterday, as the Canadian parliament voted to let’em stay.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Shinny is an informal game with very few rules, the only ones being that there’s no body checking, and the puck stays on the ice, since players are not wearing equipment. An infamous shinny story in the city comes from the tourist city hall skating rink, where shinny is not allowed.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]