Happy 80th Birthday Ray Wylie Hubbard!

Raising a glass to singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard with a song off his Reel 2 Reel 4 Real album, a Ryman show and more!

The Gruesomes, Thee Terrible Threes, Kewpie Dolls @ The Horseshoe, Saturday

Montreal's Gruesomes will be joined by Thee Terrible Threes and the Kewpie Dolls for a thrilling triple bill of garage mayhem!

Get tickets for The Gruesomes' return to the Horseshoe on Saturday night right here. 

R.I.P. animation producer/director and creator Mike Roberts

Sadly, animation ace Mike Roberts – a frequent collaborator with Ron Mann who also made the Juno-winning Sadies video for "Rumbleseat" – has passed away. 

One For The Weekend: The Clash

Hearing The Clash's song "Washington Bullets" at the age of 12 had a lasting impact on Wild Horse Nine director Martin McDonagh.

 

LINKS 

New York Times Martin McDonagh: The Interview

Rachel Lichtman's Programme 4 television event @ Paradise Theatre, Thursday

Video director Rachel Lichtman brings her Programme 4 television event – with Joe Pernice – to T.O. on Thursday, November 12!

Programme 4 at the Paradise Theatre

with guests: Joe Pernice, Aurora Browne, Kris Siddiqi, Mike Evin

Paradise Theatre (1006c Bloor Street West, Toronto)

Thursday, November 12, 2026

7 pm to 10 pm

Escape to the hilariously switched-on world of Programme 4, the groovy, feature-length “broadcast” from the Botany 500 Age of Television. Transmitting surreal local programming from the wall-to-wall carpeted dimension of Golden Sands — exclusively screened in-person at Toronto's Paradise Theatre for your analog pleasure with Programme 4 creator Rachel Lichtman. Plus special guest stars Joe Pernice, Aurora Browne, Kris Siddiqi and Mike Evin on the Fender Rhodes electric piano! This is simply an unmissable happening! Advance tickets are $28.25... get 'em right here.  

Programme 4 is more than just a collection of too-great-to-be-true TV shows, razor sharp send-ups of local commercials, interstitials and mind-blowing title sequences elevated to their own deserving art forms. From cinemas to star-studded variety showcases, it’s a live, anything-can-happen happening. Featuring special guest stars, Rhodes pianos, musical guests, surprise walk-ons, talk show-style discussions, & more! Programme 4 is unlike anything happening today. It’s an in-person experience that invites you to tune in, turn on and connect with like-minded people in a mellow environment that is conducive to discovering and savouring art with unbroken attention.

Each Programme 4 show is unique, custom-tailored for its host city and featuring local celebs and artists, adding to the local-TV vibe of the Programme 4 “telecasts.” The list of luminaries involved in the switched-on, immersive world of Golden Sands includes Dave Gruber Allen, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mitch Easter, Dave Foley, Jay Gonzalez, Dana Gould, Juliana Hatfield, Bill Janovitz, Mikael Jorgensen, Dag Juhlin, Josh Kantor, Rich Koz, Jon Langford, Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, Michael McKean, Eugene Mirman, Chris Murphy, Joel Murray, Patton Oswalt, Joe Pernice, Michael Penn, Pat Sansone, The Sklar Brothers, Michael Spicer, Tammy Faye Starlite, Kelley Stoltz, Sean Wolcott, Jon Wurster & many more! 

Watch the Programme 4 "Make The Scene" Fall Preview trailer followed by an interview with Rachel Lichtman conducted by Mark Caro for Caro Pop below. You can also read Jason Scott's think piece The Browner World: In The Realm of Programme 4 right here. Watch a rave review of the current touring show from Patton Oswalt recently posted on FB right here. 

Night Chill's Thea Faulds announces new solo project Ice Cream Funeral Parlor

Thea Faulds aka Ghoulygal will be playing a solo show in Toronto as Ice Cream Funeral Parlor at the No No Room on Nov 26th. 

Here's the scoop from Thea...

I'm working hard in the laboratory to put some final decaying frosty touches on my solo project, Ice Cream Funeral Parlor, and I will be playing my first solo shows at the end of November!!!! 

Thank you to Stacey Case and David Bertrand for having me join them on the Triple Threat Tour!!! I am so elated to play with prolific artist Stacey Case, who will be presenting The Skeletone, a one man Stylophone band that will rattle your bones. And there's a reason they don't call David's project the crappy Octopus, this Octopus grips you with the tentacular sounds of other dimensions..hail The Great Octopus! I am including The Great Octopus video for "Ghost Galleon" that I played guest theremin on (watch it here).

Also, including a little dark ditty from my project, so you know what to expect! It's not like anything I have done before, so I hope you dig it. Check it out here. 

Lastly, but not leastly, thank you to Johny for the amazing logo, Johny understood the vision right away and knocked it out of the funeral parlor. I will have t-shirts and stickers at the shows! 

Also Night Chill shares a bill with The Gruesomes and Thee Terrible Threes in Hamilton at The Corktown (175 Young St, 2nd Floor) on Friday, November 13th. Doors at 8 pm. Night Chill on stage at 9 pm. Tickets are $33.28, get 'em here. 

Ice Cream Funeral Parlor dates: 

Thursday, November 26th - Toronto at The No No Room (the basement of Dock Ellis Sports Bar, 1280 Dundas St. West)

Friday, November 27th - Hamilton at The Gate (201 James St. N)

Saturday, November 28th- St Catherines at Niagara Artists Centre (365 St. Paul St.) with Cloud Circuit 

Sunday, November 29th- Guelph matinee show at Planet Bean Coffee (2 Wyndham St. N) 2-6pm 

Beck reveals the story behind "Loser"

Beck recently explained how his breakthrough song "Loser" came together with beatmaker Karl Stephenson.