Here’s a song by Martin Solveig (featuring Kele) to get the party started, called “Ready to Go”: . Who: DJs Laidback Luke, Martin Solveig, Autoerotique, GTA What: Embrace presents Super You & Me Where: Sound Academy, 11 Polson Street Price: $25 Bonus Features: Bunch of youngins in crazy costumes; $6 bottle of water; extensive hearing […]
Read more "Dance Your Face Off: Laidback Luke and Martin Solveig"What: Daedelus, Salva & Ryan Hemsworth (I missed Samo Sound Boy, unfortunately!) Where: Wrongbar, 1279 Queen Street West Price: $20.00 Bonus: A strong rum and diet coke, purchased from a nervous-looking bartender in a tank top Last week I ventured out to Wrongbar, which has become one of my favourite bars in Toronto due to […]
Read more "Dancing with Myself (and Daedelus, Salva & Ryan Hemsworth)"Lazy Sunday afternoons make me crave new music. Seek and ye shall find, they say – that’s especially true when you happen to be on the internet. I’ve been listening to the debut album by Atoms for Peace all afternoon. Here’s “Default”: (Watch the video and be mesmerized by floating boxes.) Radiohead and Red Hot […]
Read more "Music to Blow your Mind: Atoms for Peace"Thank you to everyone who read, liked, and shared my previous post, “How To Be A Slut.” I truly appreciate the feedback, since I think that this is an issue that needs to be talked about. Today, I received this comment on the post from someone with the name Realist Existentialist: “This is not a […]
Read more "Update: How To Be Selfish". Have an awesome night out with your friend and old roommate, Leah, at the opening of a new tattoo parlour in Toronto. Meet a dozen lovely, open people. Have easy conversations about their terror of turning 30, their dreams of being a writer in Paris, their fathers who are electricians. Free wine flows generously; […]
Read more "How To Be A Slut"Here is Daedelus’s “Flying Sail” (featuring Computer Jay) for a bit of a late-afternoon pick-me-up. I will hopefully be going to see Daedelus, Salva and Ryan Hemsworth at Wrong Bar this coming week, if all goes according to plan. Imagine this magic, live: . Where: 1602 Dundas West, 1602 Dundas West What: Anne’s birthday party! […]
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