BENEATH THE TOWER: GOING UNDERGROUND WITH TORONTO'S ROCK SCENE
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Toronto gets kind of a bad rap. For Americans, it’s Canada’s cute attempt at having its own New York city. For most Canadians, it’s the sprawling, smoggy financial centre that thinks it’s so important. Vancouver’s got the ocean and the mountains, the laid-back West Coast vibe and the famous marijuana. Montreal’s got the almost-European bohemian cool, the unbelievably cheap rent and lax liquor laws. Toronto? Well, it’s got the CN Tower. That’s the common wisdom, anyway. Torontonians themselves, of course, know different. Hogtown isn’t the biggest city in Canada for nothing – it’s a massively diverse metropolis, and its patchwork of distinct neighbourhoods are miles deep with history and character. That also means that it has some of the best arts infrastructure in North America: you can barely trip over a streetcar track without landing in a bar, art gallery, or concert venue.
