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Here’s a short-term memory game for you. Gloss over the music section in last week’s issue of NOW. Ok, now take a look at this week’s issue. What’s missing? That’s right! Perlich’s Picks! It seems like Tim Perlich’s legion of anonymous flamers have been granted their wish. The veteran music critic (or “arrogant gasbag,” as his naysayers call him) appears to have been 86’ed from NOW’s offices. There’s been no official statement made on this yet, but shooting an email over to his NOW address prompts this telling bounce back message:

Tim Perlich is no longer with NOW Magazine.

Continue reading "Toodle-oo, Tim!"

FILM: BAFTA award-winning director Rex Bloomstein's new documentary, An Independent Mind, is having its North American premiere this evening at Innis Town Hall. The film investigates freedom of expression today, sixty years after its enshrinement in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The screening is presented by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression along with Hot Docs and The Walrus. After the film, there will be a panel discussion on the limits of free expression with John Miller, professor of journalism at Ryerson; Frank Addario, a media defense lawyer; Mary Deanne Shears, former managing editor of the Toronto Star, and Carol Off, who co-hosts CBC Radio One's As It Happens. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), 6:30 p.m., $10 ($8 for students).

On Thursday night at the Silver Dollar, Jay Reatard's show got ugly. The Memphis band's shows usually do, but almost never like Thursday's: Reatard punched a patron who climbed on stage square in the face and angrily packed up his gear (video above), before Dan Burke, the Dollar's legendary and notorious booker, hopped on stage himself, delivering a tirade against Reatard ("fuck this American...that's fucking pussy shit").

When local promoter Dan Burke so unabashedly declared “less drugs, more shows” as what he looks forward to for this calendar year, no one believed the drugs portion of that resolution—but Friday is reason to start believing the show portion.

Tokyo's Zoobombs played their final show last night at the Silver Dollar after playing five shows in Toronto in the last week. Organized by the infamous Dan Burke, the shows were an effort to attract industry interest in the Japanese band without any help from the industry at all. In a direct offensive against last week's CMW festival, Burke's aim seemed to be to have a successful slew of shows with the same band "without any label-financing or government-funding."

"I'm Dan Burke and I decide who rock stars are!" said an inspired Dan Burke as he trolled up and down Augusta on Saturday night, handing out flyers. The former Maclean's journalist and daring club promoter was getting the word out for his anti-Canadian Music Week shows when he ruffled someone's feathers - or more likely, someone ruffled his. The exchange was difficult to hear, only that he called one woman a "cunt" and moved on.

before even taking the stage - a bit of a rarity at Wavelength. Through a Dan Burke-organized fundraiser (so that The Adam Brown could financially recover after stolen equipment) and a popular MySpace page, there's already quite an Adam Brown awareness in the city amongst scene-people and to local record labels. For those unaware of The Adam Brown, the tag of 'power-pop-punk-DIY' should cover all bases.

Torontoist has written about upstart U of T publication the Naive Journal before, and remembers being impressed by the publication's attempts to look at an overexposed topic (i.e. homelessness) with fresh eyes.