Welcome to The Vinyl District’s long awaited Northern takeover. As 2011 finally gets its motor running (which comes with a significant decrease in the “hey, happy new year!” greetings), we felt compelled to further involve Toronto’s budding music scene in order to make that whole ‘world domination’ thing a little bit easier. So here we are, let’s introduce ourselves, shall we?
TVD Toronto will feature two full time writers – both with genre-spanning tastes, strong opinions and unique writing styles. And we’re definitely not hard to look at, either. Up first is Theresa, whose time spent as a music writer, publicist at Fontana North, music marketing extraordinaire in NYC and now the founder of tenfour Communications (a music, entertainment & non-profit focused publicity company) gives her more than enough street cred to cover what’s really happening in Toronto. And alongside her is me, Sebastian, a DJ/producer/blogger/generally awesome guy (I really enjoy writing my own bio, too), who’s here to cover the events you might’ve missed, tell you about the songs and albums you’re supposed to be listening to and point your eyes and ears to the local artists you oughta know about.
But in reality, we’re both really here for one reason: that lovely collection of 12” records we all want to continue building. As digital consumption continues to rise, we’ve got to do what we can to keep vinyl alive and well. So be on the lookout for features on your local record store workers/owners, stories on some bad ass record collectors and perhaps a couple contests for some free vinyl (if you’re nice).
So that’s our crew. Keep an eye out for guest writers to take over from time to time – we promise they’ll be great.
If you’ve got any questions, holla at us. We also encourage any and all submissions, so shoot us an email at toronto [at] thevinyldistrict [dot] com and we’ll get back to you ASAP.
Take care, folks.
TVD Toronto
