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Dedsec are at it again and there’s no telling where their wrathful arms might show up next. Last week, thanks to help from players on the Watch_Dogs Live mobile gaming app, they struck on TSN’s Off the Record, engulfing host Michael Landsberg with chaos and …
Mmmmm. Never tried their last brew but looking forwards to snagging one of these somehow. Call your LCBO in the name of the all mighty MASTODONNNNNN. MASTODON, which released a limited-run lager in 2009, is once again retuning to one of their favorite pastimes: …
Here’s a brand new music video from Australia’s Flume & Chet Faker to kick off their collabo “Lockjaw” EP. Shot in Brooklyn featuring b-boy Storyboard P. According to the label,
| “Having worked together on “Left Alone,” the plan for a collaborative release was hatched when they toured together on the 2013 Laneway Festival. Shortly after, the two headed to Narre Warren and Sandy Point on Australia’s South Coast for a four-day writing binge.” |
Sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from visitin’ down under, uhhuhuhuhuhh!
| TRACKLIST
A1. Drop The Game A2. What About Us B1. This Song Is Not About A Girl |
Boiler Room touched down on our first frigid Monday night of the season for a surprise show hosted by the inimitable Fritz Helder (Bathurst Bus Route reprezent!) featuring Egyptrixx, Basic Soul Unit, Nautiluss, Kevin McPhee, Bruce Trail and headlined by Martyn going back to back …
After a week of consistently busting at the seams and sold out shows at some of Toronto’s best live venues, the Red Bull Thre3style World Championship touched down at The Kool Haus Saturday night for an all-out DJ Hero-styled battle to determine whose beats reigned supreme. Four crowned …
This will go down in history…… Police Chief Bill Blair tells the public that they found two video files that are “particularly relevant” and “consistent with that which have been reported on in the media.”
EARTHQUAKES.
It’s quite astonishing that The Orb have been crafting groovy ambient tunes for over 25 years and are showing no signs of quitting. Dr. Alex Patterson has been known to tour solo but actual tours of himself with his partner Thomas Fehlman are more sporadic, …
“Toronto, can I get on top of you tonight? Toronto, can I make you come tonight? How about three times? Four times?” A packed Massey Hall screamed with ear-bleeding, hymen-busting (not that I’d know) strength in a resounding yes as Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, interrupted “High For …
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Any talk about Toronto nightclubs for EDM must be prefaced by the admission that EDM is a terrible umbrella acronym that encapsulates 30-plus styles of music into a palatable and sugary cereal-like mush of uplifting beats. At least electronica was a better descriptor as the a suffix gives the …