If you're looking for some great music this weekend come check out TA2's own Dave Clarke's band Little City at their CD release. It's $5, $10 with CD, this Saturday (Aug 27th), at Bread and Circus in Kensington Market in Toronto.
Doors at 9:30.
Here's their video for "Lincoln Learning French":
Lincoln Learning French (Live Performance) from Little City on Vimeo.
Ghostly International artist Matthew Dear is going to be performing this Friday at the Amsterdam Brewery (21 Bathurst St) in Toronto. Also on the bill for the night is co-headliner Simon Baker.
Doors are at 8pm. $20 advance tickets can be bought here.
Watch out for this one, if you haven't already spotted DANA JEAN PHOENIX. The First Lady of NuFunk, Phoenix has shared the stage with a plethron of amazing talents, including Jully Black, Natasha Bedingfield, Fergie, and one of Tattoo's faves, God Made Me Funky. To celebrate the release of her EP "Learning To Fight" [and just to celebrate music in general], Phoenix will be performing live at Bar Italia this Saturday, April 24th... NO COVER! With her fresh and funky upbeat music style, we quite frankly can't wait.
More info here.
WRONGBAR | 1279 Queen Street West, Toronto
Get tickets here.
For those of you who are fans of R&B and really, really, really amazing singers, Revival is hosting Songbirds, a dual record release concert featuring Toya Alexis & Kim Davis. As someone who has personally heard Toya belt out the tunes from about 1000 yards away & thinking she was in the same room, you are definitely in for a treat. This gal has got taaaaaaaaalent!
Toya is releasing her new cd "The One" and Kim Davis is commemorating the digital release of her album “Live, Love, Learn”.
The ladies will also be joined by Shianne Phillips, Linda Luztono, Nadia Edwards and Kyauna Clarke.
November 24th at Revival [783 College Street West]
Doors at 7PM, Show starts at 8PM
$10 at the door
Have a looksy at The Blaire Reinhard Band. They've just recently released Steps On The Ceiling, and Tattoo mixed this track... enjoy!
NXNE is here, so that means I don't get to sleep for the next few days. Happy to do it cause there are some great bands in town. Including one band that I caught last night, Bloodgroup, from Iceland. Great electro dance music tending to go a bit on the darker side. But it was 9pm and I was still dancing. So, lucky for me, they have another gig in the city before they take off. If you're looking to dance, you should get yourself out.
Neutral Lounge - 3AM (The perfect time)
You know summer time is just around the corner when TV on the Radio comes back into town, wassup!! They'll be playing at the Sound Academy in Toronto on June 2nd, 2009. What this means to you = you can still buy tickets to the show! Woot!
Check their Myspace here for further listings of North American / Global gigs.
Not familiar with TVOTR? They rock. True Story. Here's an oldie but a goodie from their 2006 album "Return to Cookie Mountain":
We really dread to think what happened to Sherry & Mark after that delightful scarf dance.
If you aren't staying in to watch the season finale of LOST. I'd suggest hitting up the Drake Underground for Francis and the Lights first show of their 3 night residency there.
Here's their video for "The Top" so you can prepare yourself for the funky hipshaking:
I don't think I'm breaking any ground here by saying that The Kills are definitely one of the coolest bands today. They'll be hitting up a Toronto stop on their tour this week. So if you don't have tickets yet, I suggest you start looking into that ASAP.
They'll be at Phoenix this Thursday, May 7th.
Myspace. www.myspace.com/thekills
Green Go 'Borders' CD Release Party
w/ special guests
The Magic
Everything All the Time
OPOPO DJs
Thursday, April 30th
Wrongbar
1279 Queen Street West
$5
KINGS OF LEON will be in Toronto tomorrow evening [April 21st], followed by LILY ALLEN on the 22nd, followed by NDIDI ONUKWULU on the 24th.
We're so excited that we've even bought diapers.
Tonight at The Drake.
Awesome New Republic
Styrofoam Ones
Doors @ 9pm
Cover $10
I really suggest you do this.
I've got a girl crush on Ndidi Onukwulu. I'm also quite thankful that this is a blog post vs. a radio commentary as I have no idea how to pronounce her name! Trying to pinpoint her style is equally as difficult. Is it Ella Fitzgerald? Is it musical theatre? Does it make you want to get drunk and be in a movie from the 1940's? You decide:
Alternative electronic. That's a pretty great genre to fall into. They've been compared to Hot Chip and Klaxons. The band formed in 2004 when they were just 16 and 17 year olds. In true DIY form, they recorded a 14 track LP in their bedroom and released it onto the internet. Now they are playing the Kool Haus with Deadmau5 and The Whip this Friday (April 10th).
Here's their video for my favorite track:
http://www.myspace.com/lateofthepier
Just a reminder that tonight is Rock 4 The Kids at the Revival. The benefit concert for Sick Kids Toronto has been recruiting bands to battle it out for the last couple of months, and are now ready to play. Music kicks off at 7:30 PM.
For more on Rock 4 The Kids, click here.
For directions to the Revival, click here.
The Bird's coming to Toronto on Friday, April 3rd. Get ready to fly! He'll be playing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. At this point the gig is sold out, but good luck to those who may find some tickets!
For more on Andrew Bird, click here.
So I can't take credit for finding them. Heck, I can't even take credit for seeing them, but HOLLERADO is in Montreal tomorrow night, and any self respecting Weezer fan should give these guys a go.
Here's the video for Americanarama, however I recommend also checking out their MySpace and hitting up the track "Juliette".
For those of you in Montreal, enjoy the show! Hollerado will be playing at La Tulipe.
For directions, click here.
To visit Hollerado's MySpace, click here.
If you can't deal with the sea of people that will inevitably be at Boys Noize this Thursday, maybe you should check out some electro-pop by ways of the GoldenGirls record release party at the Drake Underground. Also performing will be TMDP, DJ Barletta, St. Mandrew, 84.85, and DJ Asher. 
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