Help me find some good blogs about Toronto.

May 19, 2008 3:06 PM

Help me find some good blogs about Toronto.

What are your favorite blogs about in Toronto? I've checked out BlogTo and the Torontoist but I want to know more.

In Vancouver, I liked Only Magazine, which had decent concert, film, and art listings & reviews. Although it was pretty sarcastic and its album reviews read like Vice articles, onlymagazine has a pretty good finger on the pulse on wacky and depressing pre-2010 Olympics Vancouver.

I'm into music (indie rock, punk, noise, avant-guard/experimental, audio art, electro), underground comics, contemporary art & film, queer/trans issues. Help me find what's cool and going on in Toronto.

posted by radiocontrolled to society & culture (11 comments total)

Carl Wilson's Zoilus.
posted by jacquilynne at 3:14 PM on May 19

Joe Clark's blog bring "curmudgeon" to a new level. But it has good coverage on the specific issues that Joe takes an interest in (i.e. the TTC).

And you cannot miss MetaFilter's own Accordion Guy.

If you're into music the obvious - perhaps too obvious - choices are Now and Eye.

Daily Dose of Imagery is a fantastic photoblog by Sam Javanrouh in Toronto - the city is the subject of many of his photographs.
posted by GuyZero at 3:23 PM on May 19

Seconding Daily Dose of Imagery!
posted by phunniemee at 3:24 PM on May 19

http://spacing.ca/wire/ is another fine local blog.

Not a blog, but for indie-music stuff, check out Stillepost toronto

Also not a blog, but for arts-goings-on, get on the Instant Coffee mailing list.

For experimental music, sign up for the Soundlist email list.
posted by ManInSuit at 3:30 PM on May 19

Chromewaves is a pretty good (mostly) Toronto-focused indie music blog.
posted by thisjax at 3:47 PM on May 19

Now and Eye both had RSS feeds that broke frequently and/or permanently. I now use the Torontoist and blogto.
posted by kamelhoecker at 5:04 PM on May 19

On the upside, Eye and Now both have dead-tree feeds that work very reliably.
posted by GuyZero at 5:41 PM on May 19

Not on a windy day, Guy.
posted by SassHat at 5:58 PM on May 19

Thanks all for the good reading material!
posted by radiocontrolled at 6:25 PM on May 19

Seconding Stilepost for indie music junk.
posted by chunking express at 6:23 AM on May 21

Eye just started a new TO blog, Toronto Notes.
posted by Gortuk at 6:50 AM on May 23