
Off-the-clock cultural reflections from the Slate music critic & author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
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I’m not going to rebut perhaps the most risible piece in the annals of anti-poptimism, which is sayin’ somethin’. Nor will I link. But I did draw inspiration.
I have destroyed
the rock music
that was in
the...
The abridged but still quite long version of May 2026 show picks in and around Toronto. All info subject to change.
The Hidden Cameras (Joel Gibb plus X?) return from Berlin to Toronto and Hamilton on May 21 and 19 respectively.
Sat May...
Selected shows, mostly music, in and around Toronto, to the end of the month. On each date, the top event listed would be my likely first choice. (Don’t read too much into order after that.) Weekly residencies listed day-by-day at the end....
More to come very soon but today just a roundup of recent stuff I feel pressed to mention.
Don’t give me that look, Stephin Merritt, I helped you to get on the Times’ Best Living American Songwriters list.
I particip...
Formerly these lists were titled “Keele Life Top Ten” in homage to Greil Marcus and my street in Toronto. Now rebranding so the title doesn’t require so much explanation, and because ten was usually too many. As always, skip around with my...
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