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Win and Regine of The Arcade Fire: photo by Michael Ligon Review to come. Photos: The Arcade Fire, Janelle Monae, The Sadies @ Olympic Island, Toronto (August 14, 2010) MySpace: The Sadies MySpace: Janelle Monae MySpace: The Arcade Fire

Traditionally the Saturday night of NXNE has always been my favourite night of the festival. Over the past several years at least it seems I'd been kicking off my music activities earlier in the day either by checking out afternoon sets at Yonge Dundas Square or seeing music film during the NXNE film festival. However, then news of seminal indie band Pavement 's reunion tour coming to Olympic Island on June 19(the Saturday night of NXNE) was announced and I had to make a decision whether it'd be Pavement or NXNE for me. Adding to the [...]

Broken Social Scene is setting out on a world tour starting June 18 in Toronto at Toronto Island and they're bringing The Sea and Cake with them for the majority of their fall dates. Expect Sea and Cake and Tortoise member John McEntire to be busy on tour. Having produced the latest Broken Social Scene album Forgiveness Rock Record, which was partly recorded at Soma Studios in Chicago, McEntire quickly became an unofficial member of BSS. Sam Prekop, singer for The Sea and Cake, also contributed to [...]

Pavement - Quarantine The Past Another US date has been added to the Pavement summer reunion tour. Tickets for the June 25, 2010 Pavement show at the Greek Theatre at U.C. Berekeley go on Another Planet (APE) presale today ( Jan 28 ) at 10AM PST (1 PM EST), the password is WOWEE . In other Pavement news, the band is releasing a new 23 track greatest hits collection entitled Quarantine The Past [...]

Oasis @ Virgin Festival (September 7, 2008) Review to come. Photos : Virgin Festival @ Toronto Islands (September 7, 2008)

Bloc Party @ Virgin Festival (September 6, 2008) Review to come. Photos : Virgin Festival @ Toronto Islands (September 6, 2008)

As I get down to sorting through my photos and collecting my thoughts on this year's Virgin Festival which went down this past weekend at Toronto Islands, Noel Gallagher could apparently be mending a broken rib due to some unknown dickhead who ran on stage during headliner Oasis' performance of "(What's The Story) Morning Glory) and pushed him down from behind, and took a swing(unsuccessfully) at his brother Liam before security guards tackled the asshole to the ground. Oasis.net has this to say about the incident (Londonners, keep your fingers crossed for Tuesday night's [...]