For music fans and industry peeps the third Saturday of April is Record Store Day, which since 2007 has been a global pep rally for struggling independent record shops. Bands and labels produce special releases and reissues to be distributed in limited vinyl quantities for RSD, and while it can feel quaint to music fans who are already buying vinyl, or at least music, all year - the official RDS website features predictable quotes from Jack White, Neko Case and Tom Waits about the joys of touching record sleeves - there's plenty to do, and it's a good excuse to visit Toronto's record shops.

While the Queen Street entrance remains as shady as ever, Nocturne Nightclub has stood the place of one of Toronto's longest lasting goth venues, Savage Garden, for two years now.

Booker Matt Almeida tells us word has been slowly but surely getting out about Nocturne's existence, both in Toronto's goth scene and to music fans in general. The former Big Bop booker and musician is attempting to connect the space's spooky past (costumed events, etc) with the sounds of the present.

International Women's Day was just the start of four weeks of girl culture-centric programming at the OCAD Student Gallery. Their current exhibit "Period Piece: The Gynolandscape" curated by Canadian artists Sonja Ahlers and Petra Collins, who are both part of the Tavi Gevinson's Rookie Mag team, investigates sides of femininity often misunderstood, under-examined and scorned: pastels, glitter, blood stains, body hair, and female sexuality. If you're feeling squeamish, that's the point — give that feeling, and where it comes from, some thought.

Adam Golfetto is a young Toronto DJ who's been dropping mash-up mixtapes in the vein of Girl Talk for several years - but Girl Talk Shmirl Talk, I didn't think I liked mash-ups until I heard one of Golfetto's mixtapes (mixfiles? I saw "mixfiles" on a thing the other day and might starting owning it).

Golfetto is unassuming and laid back, but you'd never know it walking into a room while he's playing. The live energy of his fast paced drop-it-while-it's-hot audio style knocks out any doubt as to if mash-up DJs are intriguing or dumb - they're really fucking fun. The first time I saw 7x7 live was a total "I get it now" moment. Cue choral synths.

How did Pretty Pretty turn a post-punk, no wave, minimal synth and dark techno dance night into one of Toronto's most intriguing upstart record labels?

The story is familiar: Pretty Pretty Records happened naturally, a matter of right time, right place, and right people. The three minds - and musical talents - behind Pretty Pretty are united in their vision of Toronto as a breeding ground for weird yet danceable electronic artists, so we've done what was most natural to us: asked them to make a mixtape!

This March, Toronto's electronic scene will change forever. A new, month long series called Foundry will take over BLK BOX (formerly Black Box Theatre) at the Great Hall, and over the course of eight nights and five weekends feature sets by (deep breath): Juan Atkins (Model 500), Shlohmo, Omar S, Martyn, Bicep, D33J, Andy Stott, Andres, DVS1, Alixander III (Azari & III), Kevin McPhee, Deebs, Gingy, Reference, Nautiluss, Bruce Trail (Nacho Lovers), HDIMYF, Harrison Bennett, Box of Kittens, Martin Fazekas, Fabio Palermo, Mymanhenri, Members Only, Mike Gibbs, Lapelle, Michael Krochak, David Patterson, and Colin Bergh.