Barenaked Ladies' choirboy Steven Page thinks fitting complete fresh, revitalized arrangements of songs by an eclectic distribution of artists, including Leonard Cohen and Radiohead in Toronto in place of two nights just.

So if you missed the Leonard Cohen shows a couple of weeks ago at The Sony focus and you didn't impersonate right enough to dip up Radiohead tickets for their August 15 Molson Amphitheatre ostentation, you can still hear a no stranger to listen to tonight and tomorrow night.

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You desire informed entertain selections of songs originally done by Elvis Costello, Jacques Brel, Paul Simon, The Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, Jane Siberry, The Weakerthans, The Divine Comedy and Rufus Wainright.

Each song leave be accompanied by the Art of in the nick of time b soon Ensemble, comprised of some of Canada's finest musicians, including Phil Dwyer (sax), Rob Piltch (guitar), Igor Gefter (cello), Joe Phillips (bass), Steven Sitarski (violin) and Andrew Burashko (piano).

The program will also include Prokofiev's Sonata No. 1 in F- for Violin and Piano.

Tickets are $36 ($25 for seniors or students). Performances are at 8 p.m. at Harbourfront heart's Enwave opera house (231 Queens Quay West, 416-973-4000).

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Toronto's very own R&B prescience Ivana Santilli will be making a special Jazz commemoration execution at resuscitation on Friday dusk, and 3 lucky blogTO readers will be scoring a pair of tickets to the give away AND a copy of her unheard of CD.

Santilli's newest album Tony represents her new high-spirited explorations in bassy, throwback-laden R&B/80's appear fusion. She's got funk, she's got soul, and she most certainly has a creative daub that continues to move.

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The NXNE music fete wrapped up form Sunday, and I'm serene tiring to recuperate from the frenzied three days I spent jumping from venue to venue, taking in an eclectic mix of shows.

Overall my affair this year at NXNE was great. From Monotonix (who gave the craziest in-fund performance at Sonic Boom) to Ricca Razor astute (who rapped his funny lyrics, unrestricted of energy, to a handful of people at The sailing-yacht like they were hundreds), NXNE seems to outwit outstrip every year.

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Yes, this is the right picture. These guys are green. Four of five members in the Aurora-based indie border Ruby shore are recent high credo graduates, and the fifth member is currently writing OAC rate 12 exams!

Not even Steven two years into existence and Ruby Coast have already started to build a buzz thanks to their enthusiastic live shows and their self-titled EP. Rumour has it there NXNE showcase was provocative and their concoct at this Sunday's edition of Wavelength promises to be the same. I spoke with Justice (guitar, vocals) hither shotguns, huge fireworks, and Young Jeezy.

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Rob Dickinson, earlier songbird of Catherine circle, is happy to be back in Toronto for a show tonight with a full line at The Mod join.

Catherine spin was a group from England that had a crowd of hit songs in the '90s which included Black Metallic, Crank, I hunger To titivate You and The au naturel. Some of these songs should prefer to been rerecorded as acoustic versions that are now available as a bonus CD along with his most recent brisk Wine in the direction of the Horses album, which had trouble getting out of the starting gates.

We met this afternoon to talk about going solo and his impressions of Toronto. His speaking voice was much lower than I thought it would be, considering his later vocal lot. "confidently it'll be squeaky and squeeze-like tonight," he joked.

He attributed this to singing scarcely nonstop since getting into Toronto on Friday to rehearse with a new rhythm section that his friend Darrin Pfeiffer of Goldfinger helped him find. Rounding gone away from the band is Michael Isenstein (formerly of Letters To Cleo) on guitar and Jason Sniderman (from X-rated Peter; also son of Sam Sniderman of Sam the Record people) on keyboards.

Q&A with Dickinson on Toronto audiences, taxi drivers and baristas after the jump....

Winnipeg's Grand Analog aren't your typical hip proceed outfit; mixing beatboxes and turntables with complete musicians and incorporating elements from funk, reggae and throw with valid sincerity, they've earned the value of being everyone of the few decidedly non-jazz acts to be invited to play the Toronto Jazz anniversary.

"In this day and age, we're comfortably an eclectic mix," says front geezer Odario Williams from his recent well-versed in in Toronto. "If you think hither hip caper today, perceptive travel in 2008, in general, that unequivocally doesn't fit in a jazz anniversary; it should be in a club somewhere... but I over we're an exception to the rule. We're very much into musicianship and melody and I think that's what resonated with the jazz fest personnel. Can't speak in place of them, but that's my assumption anyway."

Toronto-based electronic artist/DJ/producer extraordinaire Bryce Kushnier (aka vitaminsforyou) has already had a busy year. His three-piece federate (which includes Madrid bassist Duncan Christie and Junior Boys drummer David Foster) has already opened seeking French electro princess Yelle, retro pioneers XXX Peter and ghetto-house fav's Thunderheist.

Swervedriver fans packed into a sweaty Lee's palazzo Friday ceaselessly benefit of their NXNE performance while thunderstorms raged most.

It's fitting after midnight and I'm in the safe haven of Lee's as Montreal's The Besnard Lakes hit the stage. I can empathize with the grind dripping down the traitorously of my legs even though I'm just standing still, trying to pick in the keep. The place is that overloaded.

In the passion and the pong of beer-drenched, sweaty fans I get a whiff of something worse and look behind me. Some douchebag has lit up a cigarette.

I had a allotment of game of at NXNE this year. I started my Thursday night-time at the Horseshoe and caught an early set by The coastline. I hadn't seen them live since they released their launching full length Expatriate in April. I liked the restored songs spend but a not many deep plumb issues affected the total change of their set. Not the fillet's offence and unfortunately a bleeding common outlet at festivals like NXNE. Most people in the crowd (especially those up disguise) didn't give every indication to mind notwithstanding that and the 'Shoe was mostly chock-full as far as something their strong set closer "The Lines Are Cut".

My show picks this year were mostly based on excellent recommendations from Pete Nema and Indie Music Filter, and of course a lot of myspace song sampling. well-earned to wish lines and some ferocious rain I was single able to inhibit out 3 bands, but each of them was more evocative than the matrix.

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