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Fucked Up, Tokyo Police Club to Perform "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 144 Times

Nostalgia for Nirvana's Nevermind is understandably high right now in the music world, as 2011 marks the landmark rock album's 20th anniversary. In celebration, artists everywhere are paying their respects to the record and its songs in their own ways.  read more

Netflix Hires Actors for Canadian Launch, Gets Caught, Sort of Apologizes

Netflix has apologized for hiring actors to appear at the launch of their new Canadian branch in Toronto....  read more

NXNE 2010: Six Reasons Why You Should Wish You Were Here

I'm not one to gloat, but it is hard to restrain a feeling of contentment as Day One of Toronto's NXNE gets underway. Hopefully, dear reader, you're right down the street about to get in on the action too. In case you're not, here are a few reasons you should wish you were....  read more

Broken Social Scene Prep Film Following Reunion Show

Somewhere between laying down tracks for their new album, promoting the book that chronicles their history and hitting the summer festival circuit, Broken Social Scene found time to reunite in full on stage Saturday night, at a free concert at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre.Leslie Feist, who also recently performed a few dates with Wilco, including Late Night with David Letterman on Tuesday night, joined bandmates Emily Haines, Amy Millan, Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Andrew Whiteman and Justin Peroff on stage July 11 for a rare large-scale reunion. ...  read more

First rock concert for deaf people to be held in Toronto

Remember that scene in Mr. Holland's Opus where Richard Dreyfuss is singing John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy" to his son Cole? It's the one where sign language interpreters stood on stage and large speakers filled the concert hall so the hearing impaired could feel the vibrations of the music. At that time (early 1980s), the most a deaf person could do to feel the power of music was to let the vibrations and beats coming through a speaker travel through his or her body....  read more