The Panic Manual

Toronto - Five-time grammy award winner Chucho Valdés played the Enwave Theatre last night. This was one of my most anticipated shows of the jazz festival and it did not disappoint...

Toronto - Chris Potter’s Underground played The Pilot last night. He was accompanied by drummer Nate Smith, pianist Craig Taborn, and guitarist Adam Rogers...

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For all you digitsal photo/video junkies out there, check out the latest podcast from Red Giant Software (Episode 22: Creating a Summer Blockbuster Film Look)...

Toronto - La Roux is an English synth pop duel featuring synth player and lead vocal Elly Jackson and her partner in production - Ben Langmaid. They make 80s dance synth pop music in the veins of Annie Lennox mixed with the Human League mixed with the Pet Shop Boys...

This is a dual-review. Allison’s Perspective: Guy: [Unimpressed] Hmph, sounds like she’s hitting a baby with a cat. Lisa: You have to listen to the notes she’s NOT playing. Guy: [Still unimpressed] Pssh, I can do that at home...

Toronto - Medeski, Martin & Wood, hereafter referred to as MMW, played Nathan Phillips square last Saturday night. This New York-based band skirts the line between jazz and electronica, with elements of hip-hop and rock beats thrown in for good measure...

Toronto - If this is their setlist for their upcoming North America tour, sign me up, even if I have to go to shitty Barrie for V-Fest. Setlist: 1. Girls And Boys 2. Tracy Jacks 3. There’s No Other Way...

Toronto - A seasoned and talented jazz quartet with a couple of critically acclaimed albums under their belt. An intimate venue with great acoustics mere steps from the subway line. A reasonable ticket price as part of the Toronto Jazz Festival...

Toronto - After last Friday night’s Sonny Rollins show, I decided to high-tail it over to Toronto Jazz Festival headquarters at Nathan Phillips Square to check in on Sharon Jones. Thankfully I was able to catch the last half of the set...

Toronto - The Downtown Toronto Jazz festival kicked off yesterday and will be running throughout the city from now until July 5th. It’s a fantastic opportunity to check out some great live music. The shows that occur during the day at Nathan Phillips Square are free. You can get the details here...

Toronto - I guess everyone has had their say on Jacko biting it the other day. What a weird, weird day. First Farrah Fawcett dies, then Michael Jackson, then the NBA draft. What’s with all these two bit celebrities giving their opinions and sentiments...

Toronto - Sorry for the late review, but I think everyone would agree that Jacko is in the highlight right now. Back when he was still planning his comeback last week Thursday I saw One hundred dollars (I’ll just short-hand $100) and The Deep Dark Woods at the Dakota, following Coeur de Pirate...

Toronto - It’s been awhile since I’ve written about my other love(s) - food & Hong Kong. Recently purchases of Fruitips in Chinatown have me inspired to assemble a list of foods I had whilst growing up in Hong Kong (aka the best city on Earth)...

Toronto - I will be the first to admit, I don’t really “get” Animal Collective. I know a lot of Queen street rayban wearing vintage clothes hipsters think they are the next coming of Jesus but I never really got into their music...

Toronto - Last Saturday CBC Radio 3 hosted a night of music at the Horseshoe Tavern. The night began with performances by Woodpigeon and DD/MM/YYYY. The third band of the night was Ruby Coast, hailing from Aurora, Ontario...

Toronto - It’s easy to cover shows that fall to one extreme or the other on the enjoyment spectrum. Great shows and terrible shows are both easy to write home about. It’s the middling shows where you really need to distill what it is you’d like to convey...

*Our view from the toilet in the basement Last Saturday night the Panic Manual crew crashed a NXNE after-party at Henri Faberge’s (of the Adorables) house...

Coeur de Pirate(Béatrice Martin) was good. Jian Ghomeshi told all of Canada on his show that morning that they should head down to the Dakota Tavern to check her out. And they did. Jian showed up too...

Toronto - Let’s just say I doubt any city other than Austin TX has the stamina to run 5 days of 12 hr music festival packed with people from all walks of life who collectively have probably walked all of Earth. But Toronto is doing a fine job trying...

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Toronto - In these hard economic times, who appreciates a free show more then young 20 something year old indie hipsters who choose work in record stores, coffee shops and vintage clothing outlets instead of getting real jobs? Nobody...

This article was written on a train ride from Toronto to Ottawa.. a month ago Ottawa – I am currently on the train to Ottawa, I’ve just finished season one of True Blood and there isn’t enough time to watch a movie...

Toronto - Recorded on Wednesday, technical difficulties prevented our podcast from being released til today. Rest assured, this is probably our best one yet, according to Brian. Join us as we talk about the Jazz Festival, North By Northeast, “Indie” pendence day, and of course, our BBQ...

Toronto - NXNE probably brings in a lot of out of towners, well, let us local types let you know where to stand for certain popular venues. The Horseshoe Tavern is “legendary” and will probably host a majority of the good shows at NXNE. It is on 370 Queen Street West near Queen and Spadina...

Toronto - Good weather is kind of sort of almost upon us and it’s time for a summer filled with fantastic live music! The Toronto Jazz Festival (sponsored by TD Canada Trust) runs from Friday June 26th till Sunday July 5th...

Toronto - It looks like Iceland has decided to join the electro dance pop movement. Bloodgroup is a band consisting of people named “Lilja, Janus, Ragnar, Hallur, Styrmir”. Cool...

Steelers Penguins Raptors are next!!!!!!

Out this week in the UK on 679 is “Hands”, the long awaited and anticipated album by Miss Victoria Hesketh aka Little Boots. If you’re looking for the soundtrack to your summer, look no further than this lovely electro pop gem...

Toronto - For those of you who are fans of Arts and Craft label (ie. everyone), they will be having their showcase at the Courthouse Wednesday and Thursday evening at NXNE...

Photo courtesy of Gina Argentina Swedish solo sensation (and Panic Manual favorite) Jens Lekman rolled into town last Sunday to what I had hoped, make up for a disappointing start to a weekend of concerts from a couple of my indie pop faves...

Toronto - The gentle 80s montage vibes of Fred Falke is everywhere this summer. First, he remixed the Gossip’s new track, now he has done it again with Grizzly Bear’s Two Weeks...

Toronto - I’ll be the first to confess, I was not sure what was the song that made James Blunt famous..at first, I thought it was ‘Your body is a wonderland’, then I thought it was the song from the movie Closer..finally I found out it was ‘You’re Beautiful’...

Saved By The Bell reunion Link if video doesn’t work

Vancouver - With the recent heatwave Vancouver has been experiencing, it would seem fitting to have a band like Camera Obscura adding to it with their warm pop sounds but their performance on Friday night was enough to to have any twee fan cower deep within their anoraks only to peep out...

Toronto - It’s been a few years since Simian Mobile Disco’s debut “Attack Decay Sustain Release” rocked dance floor everywhere...

Toronto - Holy crap, I had no idea the girl from Heroes has such a masculine singing voice. This album seems like a rather large departure from her previous musical venture...

Last night saw the return of the popular sketch In The Year 2000 on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, but now it is more appropriately named In The Year 3000...

Toronto - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is a documentary that focuses on …the time Johnny Cash went to Folsom Prison for a concert...

Toronto - This weeks remix comes over to you from our friends at Buffet Libre. If you recall, they are the duo that put out kick ass 80s covers by artists every year...

Toronto - Where has Sweden been lately? A few years ago, things were all abuzz with bands from Scandinavia, with bands like Radio Dept, The Legends, The Sounds and Sambassadeur dominating ipods of indie kids every where. Nowadays, it’s all about the Aussies...

(Toronto) The Panic Manual & Friends BBQ was a great success thanks to the kind folks at Steam Whistle Brewing and Carlsberg. What can you say about companies that support local blogging outfits other then thanks...

Perhaps in response to Rickys calling out of Swedish bands The Radio Dept have returned (albeit briefly) with an announcement of an upcoming single release titled David and a bit of album news...

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This week’s Friday Night Dance Party feature is kind of a combination between that and a review. It’s worth it though, so hang tight. Basically, it’s another case of “last to know” for me....

Toronto - Anyone that knows me knows that I have obsessive tendencies towards the bands Suede and Pulp. Those two bands will always be 1a and 1b in my favorite bands list...

Toronto - If there was an awards season for blogosphere music, Passion Pit would probably win the 2009 award for most hyped band. Much like Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend and many others before, this Massachusetts band has been endlessly written about n recent times...

(Toronto) Ah yes, an early Saturday night show at the Mod Club. There is something weird about going to a concert when it is still light out and it’s too early to be drunk. First up was Toronto band Boys Who Say No. I liked them...

Toronto – It’s hard to avoid The Gossip .. literally. Beth Ditto’s FU bravado, out of the world fashion choices and exit strategies have made her a media darling and it’s hard to avoid reading or seeing things about her when her band, The Gossip, decide its time to get some attention...

Sometimes I think maybe it would be fun to go to an evangelical church service...

Toronto - Joel Plaskett and his band The Emergency played Massey Hall last Saturday night. It was a great show shock full of feelgood east-coast rock. The unassuming Mr. Plaskett is on tour promoting his latest album Three...

Toronto - God, this movie was so stupid, I feel dumber for having watched it...

Toronto - Thursday night was a big concert night for the city of Toronto - The National were in town and the Over the Top festival was in full gear, including a Dinosaur Bones/ Sebastien Grainger show at the Whipper Snappe gallery...

I hate to use the word unique. I had a writing teacher last year say to my class that unique is one of the most overused and incorrectly used words around, because it means something that’s one of a kind in all the world...

When Karen and I decided to get an apartment together, one of the first orders of business was visit IKEA and ‘modernize’ our living quarters. Apparently my growing collection of stolen beer pints were not considered appropriate glassware for company. No problem...

Ricky recently reviewd the new Au Revoir Simone album Still Night, Still Light , which I am quite enjoying. As a lover of all things stop motion, I came across this new commercial for US Cellular which features The Lucky One from Au Revoir Simones’ last album, The Bird Of Music...

Here’s why I disliked the movie: 1) some serious plot holes 2) crappy script 3) no reason to care about any characters including John Connor even though we’ve invested more in him than Heidi did on her boobs...

Toronto - I wasn’t aware of it because I am never up to date on things but on one fateful night, singer/songwriter Adaline met actor Robert Pattinson of Twilight after Juno weekend, and had a very enjoyable chat (apparently 2 minutes). She then twittered about it...