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The top 5 nightclubs for EDM in Toronto

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…

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Blundstones F/W 2013

Rugged Australia requires rugged boots. Blundstone boots.  Formerly only available in  neutral tones like their Classic Black, Steel Grey or  Rustic Brown, the originally steel-toed crap kickers have expanded into the two-tone territory with line definition on the soles for…

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Filippa K F/W 2013

Scandinavia’s Filippa K may not be as well known in Canada, but back in the frozen norths of Europe, they even have their own vintage stores.  Makes sense since they’ve been around for 20 years. This F/W Men’s season introduces…

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15th Annual Powerball

A lackluster, art lacking, rained out, 15th Powerball anniversary doesn’t mean it should fall short of a few trainwrecks and babely motor cycle wipe outs. Feast your pretty eyes.  

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James Perse Boutique – Yorkville “Launch”

James Perse has been steadily building his brand of ultra-comfortable LA-styled pima cotton chic basics across North America since 2003, but his presence is fairly new in Canada.  I was at the Toronto store “launch” last month. I say “launch”…

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Bloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix – BlogTO

If you were looking for vitamin rich vegetables at the Phoenix when the Bloody Beet Roots rolled through town, then you had come to the wrong place. If you had a hankering for big, bloody, over the top beats, however,…

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Natasha Kudashkina “DOTS” show @ Cabal

  Natasha Kudashkina is an award winning visonary artist/body painter/tattoo artist and doer of many things! Check out some shots from last Friday night’s art show. In 2011 she placed second at the North American Body Painting Awards in Dallas,…

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Pedestrian Sundays return to Kensington for 10th year – BlogTO

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years that Kensington Market has been closing off its major arteries on the last Sunday of the summer months from May to September, allowing music-food-and-fun-loving pedestrians to roam wild and free….

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Electric Island turns on for Victoria Day techno party – BlogTO

The Toronto Island has had a long history of music festivals, from Toronto’s first Love Ins with the Mariposa folk Festival in the late 60s to most recently Virgin Music Fest in 2009, but the island’s been relatively quiet since….

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Rewind: Toronto’s Jungle Scene In the Late 90s – BlogTO

  Summer 1998 was a time in Toronto’s history when our town was a mecca on the North American party map. Hordes of loved-up music fans would flock from all over the continent to experience up to 5,000-strong warehouse parties…