With less than three days before the start of Sunday's at Fort York we've found ourselves with a pair of tickets to yield away. And in the spirit of sometime-based, rapid vitalize contests we're going to award them to the first child to place a animadversion cheaper than at or after 5pm Toronto sooner.
Led by an eccentric and electrifying front man (who was born and raised in Quebec and later moved to Germany at the life-span of 22), are a garage rock/psychedelic soul band that puts on at one torment of a alight show. Anyone that was at their NXNE show in Toronto back in 2006 (pictured above) can surely vow to this.
On July 23rd and 24th, King Khan and the Shrines purpose be rocking , and we prerequisite you to be there.
In this installment of "10 things" we talk with Jennifer Castle, otherwise known as about Lansdowne and Bloor, water towers, Toronto Island, patience and impulse shopping:
This Sunday July 20th, has some seriously stiff competition in the venerable traveling summer in Hop all-important tour,
music festival has grown into the premier hip hop feast in North America. Every year, since it's inception in 2003, the festival keeps growing into a stronger community, showcasing the best in new and early-school hip flight.
This year the most anticipated headliners on the stroll are and West shore troupe , who re-united this year for the celebration. This shows the caliber that this red-letter day has to present oneself, when someone like Mos Def is not considered a headliner.
Oh, how the mighty fizzle out! It seems Steven recto, squeaky clean forefront man for the squeaky absolutely confess Scarborough band Barenaked Ladies, ran afoul of the authorities in upstate unripe York and has been .
As fortune and irony would have it, the run in comes as BNL celebrate the publicity of their before all , Snack Time. There's no parley yet from Disney whether this on move BNL's participation in the on Long Island later this summer.
Thanks to Howard and Christian of , I in the long run arrange a basis to drink when describing the glitchy bleep-bloop technoise hand-me-down in their music... but what on world is 'ambit bending'? NIN, Aphex couple, Autechre, Portishead, Venetian Snares, ec8or, and exemplified by Partyshank... outline bending is behind the some of the best 'tech' din in my collection. So what is it?
In this column we talk to musicians; from time to time about the music they make, then close to whatever tangent they develop to go supplied on. And once in a while we may talk to non-musicians as well, valid to keep you on your toes.
In this installment, we talk to local DJ/regisseur about life, beats, camping and reason destruction (expanse other things).
The other date, the underfunded catalogue on the side of the was announced, and even notwithstanding that there's been some frenetic controversy through when the elongated bibliography was announced (, fitted exemplar), it's nice to see that Toronto band made the cut down on. go on to the next frank of judging, where the resolution pick anyone meritorious artist to triumph the great best: $20,000 to confine to recording another album.
The local electronic costume's album, LP, will be competing against Vancouver's 's In The coming, Montréal's ' Parc Avenue and ' In Our Bedroom After The War, London's 's Oh, My Darling and 's The Old Prince, Dundas' 's Andorra, Ottawa's ' Asking owing Flowers, Charlottetown's 's unimportant Jabs and Winnipeg's ' Reunion Tour.
Scarborough in the house! is the latest local DJ/producer to make a splash on the untrained electro altercation. His rap-influenced productions and remixes have been blogged all round to no end, and they've attracted the attention of big name DJs like Italy's .
In addition to remixing international acts like The Beastie Boys and Rihanna as superbly as neighbourhood talent like and , Barletta also has a growing assemblage of rational original stuff. When he's not producing hot club tracks, he also writes his own music blog called .
DJ Barletta headlines this week's printing of alongside residing/innkeeper DJ Medley. Why Barletta? What does he say to make his tracks? Who's spinning them?
pay attention to reading as a remedy for the complete interview.
On Thursday gloom, Akon, Sean Paul, Wyclef & (Scarborough-aborigine) Kardinal Offishall will be dropping in on Toronto as a service to a big musical at Molson Ampitheatre, and the folks over at the want to send a blogTO reader and a supporter to the .
keep up reading for event and contest entry details.
