By: Patrick Topping (@ptopp_ing) – The Prism Prize held their second annual reception last night at The Everleigh in downtown Toronto, presenting the $5000 prize award for the director of the best Canadian music video as selected by the 100-member jury consisting of Canadian journalists, filmmakers, artists, bloggers, broadcasters, and more. The dull roar … Continue reading
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From Kanye West’s minimalist, experimental new album with Yeezus, Nine Inch Nails’ triumphant comeback album with Hesitation Marks, Disclosure’s dance music domination with Settle, to more local flavours like Shad’s breakthrough album, Flying Colours and Hilotrons’ perfect slice of dance rock with At Least There’s a Commotion, the music world once again proved that while the … Continue reading
By: Patrick Topping (@ptopp_ing) – Arcade Fire’s Reflektor is the newest outing from everyone’s favourite band to love, and love to hate. And it’s okay to love to hate them, because right now, Arcade Fire feel pretty ambiguous about Arcade Fire. Following the pervasiveness of 2010’s The Suburbs, the Montreal-based collective were thrust across a rare threshold whereby the band’s closely-insulated image and music … Continue reading
Photos by: Jason Hodgins – With the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in full bloom, former LCD Soundsystem front man and founder of DFA Records, James Murphy, who produced Arcade Fire’s forthcoming album, Reflektor, which is out October 29th, performed a DJ set at The Hoxton in Toronto last night.