England's Metronomy have been a cascade of different styles and members since their formation back in 1999.  Founding member Joseph Mount started everything on an outdated computer fashioning glitchy, electronic sounds that made up their first album (Pip Paine) into the tight indie pop quartet that they are now. With their upcoming North American tour leading them into Toronto on October 26, 2011 at the Mod Club, I had the chance to speak with Joseph Mount over the phone during a heat wave in England about their latest and most successful album The English Riviera, being nominated for a Mercury Prize...

  I knew I was in for a fun-filled night the first time I got a glimpse at side-boob. It did not come from Lady Gaga—though I can think of countless girls who are aiming to ape that bedazzled and be-spiked deep vee—but from the infinitesimally pint-sized fille d'amoure of similarly pint-sized Canadian heart-throb, the Biebs. It kind of felt like catching my younger sister out in my favourite, Parkdale-combing, slutwalk outfit, with her sleazeball boyfriend totally trying to cop a feel. And it made me uncomfortable. Unfortunately for 'Canadian Music,' (woe is it to everything good that's happening musically at the moment...

Ah, February. Beginning with the eternally pessimistic groundhog, rounding the bend with the world's number one excuse to make you feel like a sad, single slob, and topping it all off with endlessly dreary puddles of grey-brown slush. If it weren't for awards season (which, admittedly, I can never be bothered to watch, but which always results in a flurry of internet activity on Monday morning to see what everyone wore—seriously, Gaga, an egg-womb-vessel?) and the various fashion weeks, it would be intolerable. Not that fashion week, ipso facto, doesn't pursue its own logic of melancholy. Fashion is a fickle thing....

I can't say enough nice things about Lissie. She's beautiful, sweet and incredibly humble for an individual chock-full of so much raw talent. She embodies auspiciousness and has been named the best and/or biggest (and most bad-ass?) breakout startof 2010 by countless sources. If you'veever heard one of her covers or caught one of her captivating live shows this comes as no surprise, but for those who haven't heard the absolute gem that is Lissie, boy are you in for a treat! I caught up with Lissie at Bobbette & Belle before her sold-out show at the Opera House for some...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot... et cetera, et cetera. The dawning of a new year, my friends, means the possibility for turning over a new leaf, rectifying past ills, and relinquishing former wardrobe trangressions for a good many of us. 2010 was a pretty remarkable year. Fashion seems to have taken a profoundly reinvigorating gesture over the course of the last decade—moving from the leopard and hot-pink incrusted juvenalia of the early naughts to an extremely interesting and profoundly unexpected affectation for the bizarre, the tense, the uncomfortable, the wonderful, and the occasionally downright heinous. Whatever the case may be—from...

Ever notice that some of the best work your favourite actors pulled out were in movies Juliette Lewis was in? Cape Fear (Robert De Niro-she was also nominated for best supporting for that one too), Kalifornia (Brad Pitt), Romeo Is Bleeding (duh, Gary Oldman's best to date), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Leo), and of course, Natural Born Killers where she machine gunned and peyote'd her way into our hearts, dragging Woody Harrelson with her. We always knew she was a rockstar on the inside and when Lewis made the move from the screen to the stage, it seemed like a...

Googly Gaga, Lindsay won't be needing a manicure in prison, Clyde, himself, and Clyde himself, and inappropriate behaviour  involving a festive special. These are the days of our lives.

Twilight fever challenges sanity, The Black Eyed Peas will forever be around, Amanda Bynes makes news for the first time in "?", Chris Brown cries, Gossip Girl's Little J has a band, and a few visual highlights of ridiculousness.

This week, in ridiculousness: Jodie Foster vs. teenager, loco Lohans, Sarah Palin, more Bieber, Miley vs. Perez Hilton; life fail, and I'll be at the MMVAs.

Hourglass pear shape whateves, I respect the curvy women out there, but frankly if I wanted to see curvy women I would gawk at Kirstie Ally’s fucking Twitter all day. There's an old saying that goes, "You can never be too thin or too rich", quoted by basically everyone from Paris Hilton, Kate Moss to Nikki Sixx. Well my friends it is entirely true. And lets be honest if the Vera doesn’t fit you, well then, you alter yourself to fit the Vera. For instance: the Kardashian sisters designed a recent line for BeBe, a medium is a small a...

Lady Gaga has definitely become the new 'Madonna', and I don't expect her to go away anytime soon. Gazing through the Metro this morning I noticed an article entitled, "Music videos are an endangered species on TV but online they're thriving." It then described the artist who hasn't lost faith in the music video, Lady Gaga. Most of you have probably seen her new video, along with, probably since this morning, more than 30 million views since it was aired on Vevo and Youtube last Thursday: Telephone. Lady Gaga is single handedly recreating the music video. The