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Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band
Rating: NNConor Oberst's generous, occasionally uneven, musical output doesn't lend itself to easy categorization. Anything from stripped-down heart-on-sleeve folk to electronic seems to be fair... -
Preview: Ricky Jay
RICKY JAY in A Rogue's Gallery at the Bathurst Street Theatre (736 Bathurst). Thursday to Saturday (May 14-16), 8 pm. $79-$99. 416-870-8000. See listing.If current... -
Orn
Rating: NNNNToronto ain't exactly known as a hotbed of quality doom acts, aside from Nadja, which seems to be thriving more in Europe at the... -
Hollywood Undead
Rating: NFor fuck's sake - this is the band that supposedly got close to 2.9 million MySpace hits (don't get me started on MySpace marketing... -
Anti Wino
ADELE at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Wednesday (April 29), 8 pm. $34.50-$39.50. 416-872-4255.Her voice comes over the phone all bright and bubbly, a full-on North... -
First-class Flight
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS with EUGENE MIRMAN at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Tuesday and Wednesday (April 21 and 22). $49.50. 416-872-4255.Recently I endured a particularly... -
Death dance
MURDER BY DEATH with SONGS FROM A ROOM and GENTLEMEN HUSBANDS at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Thursday (April 16). $15. 416-870-8000.Attempting to describe the... -
Quit your day job
BILLY BOB THORNTON & THE BOXMASTERS opening for WILLIE NELSON at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight (Thursday, April 9), 7:30 pm. $59.50-$125. 416-870-8000That strained chorus... -
Kelly Clarkson
Rating: NNNJust over two years ago, Kelly Clarkson took some licks for My December, an unapologetic antithesis to her usual mainstream pop that was slagged... -
Bibio
Rating: NNNOn paper, Vignetting The Compost looks great: high-concept acid folk meets hazy electronic, relying on nature field recordings for both ambience and inspiration. Equal... -
Sepultura
Rating: NNSubstantial lineup changes to the once highly influential band have left so little of its former self intact that calling the band Sepultura is... -
Spend a day with history
This millennium sure can be a downer - recession, global warming (which seems like a fantasy this time of year) - so why not pretend... -
Talk to the animals
For all us poor bastards who aren't flying south to some tacky all-inclusive, the Toronto Zoo (Meadowvale north of the 401, 416-932-5900, torontozoo.com) is basically... -
Discover foreign TV shows
You can only watch Mad Men so many times, so why not use the Web to check out what other countries are watching?There's some rad... -
Learn how to knit
Scoff if you want, Mr. or Mrs. Too Cool for Needlework, but don't think for a second that this is strictly for Grandma any more.Knitting...
