Record page hits reached!!!

Thanks to all of you, Toronto Music Scene reached record page hits yesterday, surpassing our previous record by over 100 visitors!

Thanks to everyone and all of the bands who have been posting links to the site and articles. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Don't forget tonight is the Playdead guitar showcase at Shanghai Cowgirl, with A Primitive Evolution playing the after party at the Bovine at 11:30. We'll be there, will you?

New interviews/articles

Hello everyone:

New articles will be posted over the next two days: Luke Sneyd, Downsview, Tin Bangs and Space is For Stars.

Thursday we'll be heading to the Bovine to check out A.P.E and the Playdead art show at Shanghai Cowgirl next door. Friday we'll be hitting up two shows: the Bovine again for Latefallen's video launch party and the Reverb for Burning the Day's CD release party. Hope to see you there!

Getting ready for Canadian Music Week

Alright, I am going through 19 Pages of bands and venues trying to figure out the logistics of seeing as many great bands as possible during Canadian Music Week. Its going to be a good one this year so get your wristbands early. We'll keep you posted on the bands Toronto Music Scene will be checking out.
If your in a band and playing CMW, feel free to shoot us a line and add to my workload!

-TJ

BANDS WANTED FOR A GREAT CAUSE!

Hello everyone,

I stumbled upon this post on Facebook today. As many of you know, an awful fire ripped through Queen St. earlier this week destroying numerous shops and houses. Someone is trying to organize a benefit show to raise money for the people who lost their houses and they're looking for people to help out.

Date: Monday, March 10, 2008 at 8:00pm
Location: reverb//holy joe's
Street: queen//bathurst

They posted these details:

corey and i are trying to put together a benefit for the people who lived in the apartments above the stores on queen that burned down.
so we need some participation from everyone, whether you have a band that wants to play, wares to sell (crafts etc), or just to come and donate some clothes, money, or whatever else you may have.

I really hope this comes together. TMS will definitely try to be there. If you're in a band and you want to help, please go to the facebook page and let them know. (let us know too!).

- Sheena


Photo credit: http://torontoist.com/2008/02/phototo_queen_s.php

Flyers and Promotion!

ATTN: Everyone,

If you're trying to promote an upcoming show, email me the FLYER and I'll post it on this blog.

Just another way TMS is trying to help Toronto bands.

Downsview and Luke Sneyd

Hellooooooo everyone,

We just got back from checking out Downsview and Luke Sneyd at the Horseshoe and we had a blast!

Downsview was such a fun show! The entire band knows how to rock and make everyone laugh! The crowd was pretty small but LOYAL to the core, which automatically ups their cred in my opinion! The interview was super fun, but unfortunately due to group hugs caused us to miss a little bit of Luke's set. Luke too was awesome: great show, great guy, great interview, so stay tuned for that.

I highly recommend both of these bands, so be sure to check them out at their upcoming shows in March....we'll have more details on those gigs later.

Those articles plus a show review will be up in a couple days, so keep checking back.

I hope you all enjoyed your first family day of all time. Long weekends in February not as fun as long weekends in the summer.

Until next time,

- Sheena

Hunter Valentine article posted

Hunter Valentine article from Thursday now up on the site! Let us know what you think.

Add us to Facebook!

Just to let everyone know, we have both a Fan site and a group on Facebook, so if you haven't already you should totally add us! Feel free to promote shows and bands to let us and everyone else know what you're up to!

Upcoming interviews and awesome shows

I hope everyone had an awesome V-day, we attended the Hunter Valentine show and caught up with Adrienne Lloyd afterwards to talk music, girls and V-day itself. It was a wicked show with a rockin' crowd, so look for that article up later this weekend!

On Monday we'll be hitting up the Horseshoe to check out Luke Sneyd and Downsview. Mondays are free at the HS, and thanks to Ontario's recently introduced Family Day, it will be a great way to top off the long weekend.

CMW: Are there any bands playing CMW you're dying for us to interview or review? Post a comment on this blog and let us know!

Have a rockin' weekend everyone!

- Sheena

Happy Valentine's Day from TMS

A big Happy Valentine's Day from all of us (all two of us) here at Toronto Music Scene!

If you don't already have plans tonight, why not stop by the Reverb where we'll be catching some Hunter Valentine . Apparently there is going to be a mad game of matchmaker so grab a friend and come on down!

If that's not your thing, there are a TON of wicked gigs tonight, including:

Automatic + 3Tards @ Jeff Healey's Roadhouse
Brtual Knights + Andrew W.K. @ the Sound Academy

AND

Open Hearts @ the El Mocambo

I just want to highlight this last event for a minute: It's a charity event put on by Amnesty International and will be featuring performances from Blurred Vision, Luke Sneyd, Chris Bottomley, Joel Lightman and the Moroccan Drum Ensemble, Hallelujah Drummers. Tickets for this event are %15 or $10 with a canned food donation.


Hope you get a chance to check out one of the awesome shows tonight. If you see us at the HV show be sure to say hi! Until next time,

- Sheena

Snazzy new layout!!

In case you haven't noticed, TMS has undergone some major updates in the aesthetic department!

We're still working out the tweaks, but we're definitely pumped about the launch of TMS version 2.0. It's not finished yet, so please be patient with us as we figure it out.

There's a sweet feature at the top where you can choose your preferred colour: blue, orange or green. I personally dig the blue, but you're an individual, let your heart guide you in your new layout colour decision.

I saw this band play live today called Grand:PM, you should totally check them out. We'll see if we can sched something with them during CMW. I'll keep you posted.

Until next time,

- Sheena

Canadian Music Week

Is your band playing Canadian Music Week and you're looking for some coverage? Email sheena[at]torontomusicscene.ca. Please provide a myspace link, show info and contact information. Thanks!

UPDATE AND NEWS!!!

Hey kids!!!

We were using this blog periodically throughout the summer, but it's now about to become a full force edition to Toronto Music Scene. This is where we'll be making posts about recommended upcoming shows, responses to shows we attend, new bands we're interested in checking out as well as random posts about things were up to.

To start off, TMS has a lot of awesome articles heading your way. We just sat down with Matt Drake from DODGER and the article about that will be up tonight. We absolutely love Dodger - they make us want to dance, skank and rock out all in the same song. If you haven't had the chance to yet, you definitely need to check them out ASAP!


As well we will be interviewing HUNTER VALENTINE on Saint Valentine's Day itself...should be an awesome show!

Then we've got TIN BANGS on February 23rd and LATEFALLEN On February 29th.

And of course, the 26th annual Canadian Music Week is fast approaching and you can guarantee there will be tons of great coverage between March 5-8.

Don't forget to keep checking out the site and this blog for new things all the time!

Keep on rockin'

- Sheena and TJ