NEW TICKETS: Stars (two nights), God Made Me Funky, Crookers, more

Tickets just arrived:
Stars @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre Fri. Dec 12 $31.50
Stars @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sat. Dec 13 $31.50
God Made Me Funky @ Revival Sat. Oct 18 $12.00
Crookers + Count & Sinden @ Circa Fri. Nov 7 $15.00
Colour Revolt @ Silver Dollar Tue. Nov 18 $8.00

NEW TICKETS: X-Avant Festival Pass

Tickets just arrived:
X-Avant Festival Pass (includes one-year Music Gallery membership) @ Music Gallery + venues across Toronto Tue. Oct 21-Sun. Oct 26 $80.00

NEW TICKETS: Neil Halstead, Darker My Love, Agnostic Front

Tickets just arrived:
Neil Halstead @ Drake Sat. Nov 8 $18.50
Darker My Love @ Horseshoe Sun. Nov 30 $8.50
Agnostic Front @ Kathedral Sun. Nov 16 $17.50

MAKE SOME NOISE/TAKE SOME NOISE: FREE Toronto Public Library concert and local music workshops

Exclaim!, Blocks Recording Club and ourselves here at Soundscapes are proud to support the Toronto Public Library's "Make Some Noise/Take Some Noise" campaign, promoting the library's collection of CDs by Toronto-area musicians at select library branches (the collection's searchable at torontopubliclibrary.ca) with a series of local music-related workshops, as well as a free concert featuring Slim Twig, Masia One, Winter Gloves and Gentleman Reg on Sat. Nov 15 at 8pm at the North York Central branch. We'll be giving away tickets from our register from today 'til the show until our supply runs out (our batch is 110 tickets total, with a limit of two tickets per customer; North York Central, Toronto Reference, Albion, Northern District, Parkdale and Malvern branches will also be giving them out in limited quantities). Here's the rundown:

FREE CONCERT (subject to above-described ticket limits):
Featuring Slim Twig, Masia One, Winter Gloves & Gentleman Reg
Saturday, November 15 at 8pm, North York Central Library (5120 Yonge St., 416-395-5535)

LOCAL MUSIC WORKSHOPS:
And It Don't Stop: Hip-hop and Power
Join local hip-hop artists for an interactive workshop tracing rap from its beginnings to the present, and learn how you can rhyme and rap. Tue. Oct 21, 5:30pm, Malvern Branch (30 Sewells Rd.) Register: 416-396-8969

Infiltrating The Music Business
Whether you're a musician or someone interested in the music business, this workshop will answer questions about music management, agents, promoters, and grassroots promotion. Thu. Oct 23, 6pm, Parkdale Branch (1303 Queen St. W.) Register: 416-393-7686

DIY Rock Show
Join Blocks Recording Club (and Soundscapes alumnus!) Iris Fraser for an intro to putting on your own rock show. Learn how to independently book, run, and promote unique and exciting music events. Sat. Oct 25, 2:30pm, North York Central Library (5120 Yonge St.) Register: 416-395-5674

The Amazing Technicolour Rock Show: How to Use Multimedia & Storytelling in Performance
Join Blocks Recording Club artists Kids On TV for an introduction to using multimedia and storytelling in performance. Wed. Nov 5, 7pm, Northern District Branch (40 Orchard View Blvd.) Register: 416-393-7610

 

NEW TICKETS: Noah And The Whale, Cradle Of Filth, more

Tickets just arrived:
Noah And The Whale @ El Mocambo Tue. Dec 9 $10.50
Cradle Of Filth @ Sound Academy Tue. Jan 20 $31.00
Freak The Funk Out (Early Bird) @ Sound Academy Sat. Nov 1 $30.00
Freak The Funk Out (Regular) @ Sound Academy Sat. Nov 1 $35.00
Freak The Funk Out (V.I.P.) @ Sound Academy Sat. Nov 1 $66.00
Alankar @ Theatre Passe Muraille Sun. Nov 9 $20.00

ALL TOGETHER NOW: Screening this week at the Royal

All Together Now opens Fri. Oct 10 at the Royal Cinema, the story of the partnership between the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil which led to the LOVE show (and subsequent CD release of its Giles Martin-produced soundtrack of collaged medleys), opening at the Mirage in Las Vegas in 2006. The documentary features archival material and private interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, George Martin, and LOVE director Dominic Champagne, and will be showing at the Royal until Thu. Oct 16.

THANKSGIVING HOURS

We will be closing early on Sunday, October 12th and Monday, October 13th for Thanksgiving. Our hours for both days will be 10am to 6pm. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Order Pavement Early, Stream Now, Bonus Swag Soon: Brighten The Corners pre-orders taken here!

As Pitchfork has so kindly explained, Matador is set to release the next deluxe Pavement reissue set, Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition, on December 9th, and as an authorized retailer, we're teaming up with them to solicit pre-orders now (you pay here in the shop upon its release--no advance purchase necessary), with the perks of doing so including access to a stream of the album starting Oct. 10, and two bonus downloads respectively available on Oct. 21 and Nov. 4 via the Matador website, as well a free live vinyl LP (and poster) exclusively given to those who sign up for this Buy Early Get Now incentive. Send us your full name and email address, and these Nicene spoils can all be yours! (This offer has now ended--we look forward to giving all respondents their bonus LP and poster here in the shop come Tue. Dec 9th!)

NEW TICKETS: SOUNDplay Festival, Oct. 21-25

Tickets just arrived:
SOUNDplay: The Legacy Of John Chowning @ Theatre Centre Tue. Oct 21 $15.00
SOUNDplay: Future EA (Jeux De Temps/Times Play + Angelusnovus) @ Theatre Centre Wed. Oct 22 $15.00
SOUNDplay: Forms Of Expression (Pierre Hebert + I/O Media) @ Theatre Centre Thu. Oct 23 $15.00
SOUNDplay: Media Art Collaboration (Birse/Kavanaugh, Snow/Kaamevar, Miller/Piilonen) @ Theatre Centre Fri. Oct 24 $15.00
SOUNDplay: Living Cinema (Ostertag/Hebert) @ Theatre Centre Sat. Oct 25 $15.00
SOUNDplay: Festival Pass @ Theatre Centre Tue. Oct 21-Sat. Oct 25 $30.00

For more information, visit www.soundplay.ca.

NEW TICKETS: Body Of War (film screening)

Tickets just arrived:
Body Of War @ Bloor Cinema Tue. Nov 11 $10.00