Now that it’s finally my favourite time of year – music festival season – it’s the perfect time for this guest post by Nicolas White, editor-in-chief for the very useful ticket search engine, Rukkus.com. While my music festival recommendations would look very different since they’re based out of the US and TTRO is a Canadian blog, […]

Hot Docs is here!!! This means I am going to be incredibly happy for the next 10 days – well, 8 days as I will have to go home next weekend for a family thing – but still. As I have said many times before, this is my favourite film festival of them all, for […]

Hey guys! I decided that, since tomorrow is vinyl nerd Christmas, it makes more sense to give you the rundown of how Toronto is celebrathing this beloved annual holiday today in leiu of TGIF this week – so you can prepaire accordingly. I am currently on my way back home to Welland to celebrate Easter […]

The website Music Machinery performed this study on how location can affect music taste. The map above shows the interesting results (click to make it larger). Someone should do this for Canada. Our provinces are so huge it’s hard to imagine any one artist that could define the taste of the entire population, except for […]

I think one big mistake… Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls […]