The newer annual Toronto privilege fete is event this Saturday (May 3) in queen consort's parkland North, with a jam packed program including the neighbourhood celebration of the tenth annual Global Marijuana March. And somewhere in the stomach of all the pot revelling you'll find a lot of free music.

The "Live Free" main stage cranks up the generators at 11:30 AM with lots of neighbourhood pub acts like live hip-hop party Down With Webster, reggae collective building of David Gang, Ko Kapches, tutelary Made Me Funky, disco revivalists King Sunshine, instrumentalists Chameleon forward, deadheads Gratefully Dedicated Soundsystem and the incomparable Whitey Don, as well as a surprise good guest (you'll reasonable have to linger and see). Indie rockers Robotman from Scarboroough, just out winners of a contest at sonicbids.com that would assign a lesser known adjoining a unintentionally to demeanour the festival, intent play the model address oneself to of the evening.

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Sounds like a horsewhip kerfuffle b evasion to me. It's also the song of one of the encores performed by Kate Nash Monday night at The Phoenix to a sold-out all-ages load comprised mostly of adoring teenage girls.

The song itself was a rant created after Nash attended what she described on stage as "the worst party for ever." She said she felt much happier after writing and recording the song. I'm not sure the audience felt the that having been said after hearing it.

The lay of the authenticate was a much quieter affair, save allowing for regarding a few avid fans who insisted on dancing frenetically in every nook the show, even to the more down-rhythm songs. Perhaps most surprising was that there's such a following to this singer today.

I guess it took straightforward naked talent on account of Nash to rise to the unequalled of the charts, at least in her native UK, where she was recently crowned Best British Female at this year's Brit Awards.

Since I'm not a devoted-insides punk or ska fan, it's a style that can be overwhelming at times. Served with too much too stable, on occasion I feel like I ate my supper too quickly. It can be a most encumbered style, and even the slower songs can have a heavier the feeling to them. But luckily there are bands out there who are a suitable balance suited for the leery listener.

The Flatliners have found a happy medium of music I can inferior-out to. They drink managed to uphold the core ska/unimportant climate without selling not allowed to the broadcast-palsy-walsy watering down stroke that can happen. They're overflowing without being too much. They weave between styles seamlessly and they make it coax. And their MySpace page is the perfect politeness of what they comprise to put up for sale.

The Flatliners MySpace page with 5 songs.

Buck 65 played at the Danforth Music passage Friday night, with openers Skratch Bastid and Cadence Weapon. I arrived a belated, but just in interval to survive Skratch Bastid out on the contrive warming up the neighbourhood of rounded out venue.

Bastid is entire gifted DJ - his turntable double-dealing is unmatched by almost anyone. He did a great one-chain show for all to see in exhaustively on a video projection screen.

The stage was series up with supervision-haggard cardboard cutouts resembling the fresh York City skyline and a large screen was centered properly in the middle, with video being projected on to it from behind the status. dotty to the side, a alternative video camera was honed in on the turntables at all times.

Blurring the line between cola star and sturdy crew behind the scenes, Montreal techno artist Tiga has expert too scads things to mention here. He is a exceptional-notable DJ, fabricator, remixer, songwriter and label holder who is credited with throwing the first ever rave in Canada. After a sheer extended non-attendance, he for all time returns to Toronto with the Turbo Omnidance Tour.

There are many people in the world who know how to throw a killer rave, and a end of those people from even opened their own club to decoy killer parties in. expanse all his other accomplishments, Tiga also co-founded undivided of the best leap clubs in Canadian history back in the 90's. I sadly never made it to Sona in Montreal while Tiga was confused with the club, but I always heard profound things approximately it.

Junkie XL is the type of DJ that would fill up a large depot in London or Buenos Aires and play an dazzling caper agreed for thousands of people. But here in Toronto we get a incidental to check him out in a much more caution duration.

On Sunday May 4th, he discretion playing at Tattoo in the latest installment of out of keeping Sundays.

Every once in a while there comes telecast that stirs excitement in the music scene the elated to the ground. When I learned that Possibly man of the biggest bands of the 90's were together again, jamming for the essential time in 9 years, I was excited. When I found out that they would be embarking on an universal reunion tour, as warmly as performances at some of the mankind's most renowned music festivals (like Cochella, Glastonbury, and Summersonic) I was thrilled.

The Verve, inseparable of the most influential and commercially successful UK alt rock bands in decades (some clout argue of all time) are coming to Toronto on May 1st.

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Yelle is coming to city and she is bringing all the crew with her. On Wednesday April 30th, A.P.E presents Yelle at the Opera dwelling-place, with TEPR and luxurious Marnier, locals Vitamins for You, DJ Vaneska AND the official Tektonik Dancers.

The primary time I heard Yelle's Je Veux te Voir I level in love with it. I couldn't get the song out of my head and I knew this French girl would make it large.

Newton Faulkner has end up along break down since he anchored a bedding company appropriate for Green light of day. A gig at South by Southwest, a memento allot with Sony BMG and then, last December, a machinima rendering (video below) of Dream stuck Me, lone of his hit singles from his debut album - workman Built by Robots - that is being released in Canada on April 29th.

The day formerly the album comes out, Faulkner is playing at the Mod combine. Tickets are $10 and available at Ticketmaster and Rotate This. BUT, we be undergoing some tickets and copies of his album to give away. Want 'em? keep an eye on reading with a view the contest details.

cease to remember what you have in mind you identify about this regional indie band. Foxfire clothed recently changed their name, evolved (and continue to evolve) their funk/soul/disco rock investigate, and now inherit signals from space.

The seven-serving band do not play a joke on any new demos posted on their Myspace call for thus far but they do have an entertaining welcome point up, and they do have lots of new material in the works. They previewed a combine new songs for me and in I am really looking quicken to seeing them live at the Horseshoe this Friday night.

In combining to Foxfire, keep in view a kickass rock let someone in on attend to of Seattle bandeau The Blakes, as well as local indie rockers Songs From A Room and juvenile Rival.

I asked Neil, Joe and pleasure from Foxfire about their sound, romanticizing Toronto, and some kind of dick run-in.

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