This year's Osheaga Festival certainly wasn't without its hiccups -- Owen Pallett fled the stage after losing sound in his monitors and technical difficulties delayed sets by Jamie Lidell and Beach House -- but it also had more than its share of magical moments. Montreal-based Arcade Fire's homecoming set was a a rousing success, Weezer showed they ...

It stands to reason that several big-name film directors, such as David Fincher, Spike Jonze and Gus Van Sant cut their teeth making music videos. What may be less evident is that plenty of small- and big-screen actors started out their careers in videos, too. Whether affording a brief cameo or a full-on starring role, music videos ...

Reunions are a tricky thing -- after all, bands break up for a reason and those reasons aren't easily forgotten. Pavement's recent reunion has drawn universal approval, but it's easy to see where the cracks used to be. The lo-fi godfathers followed an all-star cast of festival openers on Toronto Island on Saturday afternoon -- the lineup ...

Even when everything that could possibly go wrong does, Broken Social Scene can still put together the show of a lifetime. On Saturday afternoon of their self-curated Toronto Island Festival, the band fought through busted amps and glitchy electronics -- not to mention a drum kit that literally had to be tied down -- to deliver the kind of ...

Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell just isn't built for hot weather. "It is hotter than sh-- up here -- we all gon' die!" the bearded singer proclaimed from the stage during their sunny Saturday afternoon slot for the quasi-annual, Broken Social Scene-curated Toronto Island Festival. Bridwell looked ready to melt in the 30-degree-Celsius heat, ...

There are at least three things in life that any Canadian rock fan can count on: death, taxes and Sloan. On Friday night the band showed why they've been one of the country's most beloved bands for nearly 20 years, turning out a seemingly bottomless set of hits at Yonge-Dundas Square during their headlining gig for NXNE. Sloan are undoubtedly ...

Wavves do two things better than just about any other band playing this year's NXNE: play warp-speed garage punk and push peoples' buttons. The trio did plenty of both when they took the stage at Toronto's Lee's Palace last night. The first five minutes of their set was almost like frontman Nathan Williams' personal game to see how impatient he ...