Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'daftpunk'
March 13, 2008
Photo by Caesar Sebastian. Justice brings their gigantic glowing cross and their hot electro-house beats to the city on Monday. While the Sound Academy (ex-The Docks) is usually an awkward place to see music, it's well suited for this show. There will be plenty of space for people to "D.A.N.C.E." and the duo has a sound large enough to match the venue. They'll be joined by fellow Parisian Busy P and Fancy at the......
Continue Reading "The Rump Shaker: March 13–19"December 4, 2007
Do you love the music of Daft Punk? Perhaps you hate it. Whatever your feelings on their music, we all know it's better without Kanye West shouting pointlessly over the top. Er, actually, we meant for that sentence to go: whatever your feelings on their music, you might be interested in seeing Daft Punk’s new film, Electroma, which will be screening at midnight, December 7, at the Royal Theatre (608 College Street) as it......
Continue Reading "Elec-Tronna"November 5, 2007
Some musicians are professional wallowers. Others are professional romantics. And still others are professional fun-havers. Both Toronto's Spiral Beach and Brighton's The Go! Team fall into that last category—performers who embrace the sheer joy of performing. But more than that, they are young, talented, and famous, they know they are young, talented, and famous, and they're grateful for being young, talented and famous. Although Beach's Maddy Wilde and the Team's Ninja may strike diva......
Continue Reading "Go! Team Venture"August 17, 2007
A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night. Cathy Gordon decided to get very, very publicly divorced on Monday, with an art piece she called "On My Knees." For it, she crawled around Toronto for a while (on her knees!), signed divorce papers, and then......
Continue Reading "Superfluist"June 25, 2007
For his entry to Touch Up Toronto, Alden R. Cudanin sent us this photo of the south side of College just east of Bathurst from about 1920, doctored to include the now-ubiquitous iPod ads. Of course, back then, in addition to billboard advertising, Apple also targeted the ever-growing praxinoscope-owning demographic, their ads featuring shadowed men and women dancing the Charleston to the latest Gershwin (or, occasionally, Daft Punk) joint. Original photo from the City......
Continue Reading "Touch Up Toronto #4: Vintage iPod Ad"November 18, 2005
Torontoist has two bloodshot eyes and two sore feet after last night’s Juan Mclean-James Murphy “secret” show. While it’s unclear if Juan Mclean goes by his album-name, The Juan Mclean, when DJing, it is clear that he has the shiniest head on the DFA Label. At the Batcave-like venue of the Queenshead Pub, it was two-dollar cover, three-dollar Mill Streets, dance music and dancing. The Mclean dropped his own record, and late in the night......
Continue Reading "Maclean's Party"April 8, 2005
Phoenix will surprise you. This seemingly skipped over Parisian band are known to put on an amazing show and have the music to back it up. Phoenix are a synth-pop rock band that play a fairly eclectic range of music, but holding it all together are truly enjoyable well written songs. They are making their first Toronto appearance tonight at the Opera House and it hasn’t sold out yet. If you are looking for something......
Continue Reading "Phoenix at the Opera"March 28, 2005
For your linking pleasure... - Chili dogs, chili fingers, whatever. A woman found a one inch human finger tip in her bowl of Wendy's chili. Find a picture and you can actually see the bite marks in the finger... - Block the hand that feeds you. Buy Fox Blocker, and just stick to the National Post for right wing bias. - You can play some cheesy Daft Punk video game, but it doesn't help the......
Continue Reading "I Found a Link in My Diddy"