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Happy Birthday Chris Houston!
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6 pm. With Ron Mann Q&A after screening. Click for preview.
8 pm on FaceBook, 9 pm YouTube.
Ron Mann's Clairtone documentary @ Hot Docs Cinema, Friday
6 pm. With Ron Mann Q&A after screening. Click for preview.
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The Lipstick Killers show at Adelaide's Marryatville Hotel from 1979 is now available for Oz punk fans to enjoy. Here's the scoop...
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Straight outta Fort Worth, Texas – it's The Elite! Check out their garage punk classic "My Confusion" on Charay Records.
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The 1980 spiritual jazz album trumpeter Longineu Parsons cut in Paris is being reissued for RSD Black Friday. Here's the scoop from Long...
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Jeremy Spencer sings the rare Fleetwood Mac rocker "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite" from 1969.
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Remembering composer/arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn with a couple of performances, recordings, interviews and more.
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James and The Cold Gun – the heaviest Welsh band named after a Kate Bush tune – revel in the sound of the 90s! Tumble opens at 7 pm.
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Celebrating the birthday of painter/poet and musician Billy Childish with a chat with Ian Svenonius, "Troubled Mind" and more. ...
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Victor Kiswell (above) strikes again with the second volume of World Jazz Grooves – another great deep jazz collection out now! Here's t...
Alex Pangman's Sweet Hots online concert, Saturday
8 pm on FaceBook, 9 pm YouTube.
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T.O. Vinyl Vendors
- Gord's Back Room (2227 Dundas St. West)
- Lost & Found (2834 Dundas St. W. at Keele)
- Play De Record (411 Spadina)
- Circus (866 Danforth)
- She Said Boom! (372 College; 393 Roncesvalles)
- Neurotica Records (567-B College)
- Baxter's Vinyl (1374 Queen East back of Greenwood Café)
- BMV Books (471 Bloor West at Brunswick)
- Emissions Record Shop (168 Brunswick)
- Invisible City Records (222 Spadina) Unit C4
- Kops Records (395 Queen West, 209 Danforth)
- Paradise Bound (270 Augusta)
- Pandemonium (2920 Dundas West - Junction)
- Zoinks Music and Books (1019 Bloor West)
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