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Band of the Week: Dusted

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Dusted is the latest project from Holy F*ck’s Brian Borcherdt and producer Leon Taheny (of Final Fantasy and Bruce Peninsula), who recorded their debut album in a garage-turned-studio. The result? A lo-fi and dreamy new album called Total Dust. It may be mellower than what we’re used to from Holy F*ck, but Borcherdt’s astral lulling and melancholic influences remain the driving force behind the duo.

Culture vultures circle the wagons

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Torontonians like to think our city is home to world-class galleries and museums. We have dinosaur fossils, works by Pablo Picasso and chestnut-crushing clogs. But when the Art Newspaper recently released its annual report on international museum attendance, not one local museum drew more than a million visitors, paling in comparison to the real heavyweights … Continued

Morning Throwback: before Brad Smith, the ladies all wanted a piece of this guy

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Forget Brad Smith. Back in the mid-1900s, George H. Hees was the ultimate ladies’ man. Armed with a killer throw and a righteous ‘stache, Hees was the bees mother freaking knees. A rose? Hees gave out ghost orchids. A helicopter ride? Try a zeppelin. A hiatus? There was only one day when Hees wasn’t working his magic with a lady and that was the stock market crash of 1929.

Brad Smith: officially Canada’s most eligible bachelor

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After an intense search through the nation’s unmarried men, The Bachelor Canada team have finally found their guy. CityTV announced today that Canada’s first Bachelor will be 28-year-old Canadian footballer Brad Smith. The show has yet to announce the names of the 25 bachelorettes who will be competing to receive a rose from him, so while the nation waits with bated breath for that news, let’s distract ourselves with a closer look at Mr. Smith.

Morning Throwback: before Settlers of Catan, Toronto had this game called “chess”

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Ah, yes. The great chess match of 1914-ish: Morrison vs. Marshall. Never heard of it? Here’s all you need to know. Team Morrison’s slogan: “I’ll take your pawn, all day long;” Team Marshall’s tagline: “This is a stick-up: give up your bishop.” The game was so epically long that those two dudes’ beards turned white in the process. The game was won in only four moves. Marshall ended up losing, but his great-great grandson invented the game Connect Four, so it all worked out in the wash.

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival Hour: Metric, Dusted, Cold Specks, Men Without Hats, The Do Good Assassins, Rush

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Momentum is building for Toronto band Metric’s new album Synthetica, which is set to be released June 12. The first single off the album, “Youth Without Youth” will be released on May 1, while the artwork and track listing were released earlier this month. Synthetica is being released by the band’s own label, MMI, through a series of partnerships with distributors around the world including Universal Music here in Canada.

AGO exhibit offers glimpse of the private Picasso

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When the doors open tomorrow at the AGO’s Picasso exhibition, Torontonians will be given a deeply personal glimpse into the life of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris” features 147 works from the artist’s personal collection, dubbed “Picasso’s Picassos.”