Who knew that Green Day could sell out the Air Canada Centre in 2013? I didn't. Growing up listening to Dookie and first discovering the hidden track "All By Myself" was a rite of passage. It appears that this is still happening for 16-year-old girls in the suburbs and their parents (gotta have wheels) who turned out en masse on Thursday night to see the aging (yet ceaselessly energetic) pop punk rockers jam out for two and a half hours on a school night.

Austra is back. With a bigger band (from the trio for their Polaris-shortlisted debut Feel It Break to a current coterie of six). And armed with bigger, denser and (at times) groovier harmonies. Coming off a slew of showcases (five) at SXSW, frontwoman Katie Stelmanis and co. were at the Danforth Music Hall on Saturday night for their hometown CMW showcase. Indulging in ample new material off of their forthcoming, Olympia (out in June on Paper Bag Records), the crowd turned out.

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Who are they?

The boring version: frontman Ben Cook (guitarist for Fucked Up and Young Governor), Matt DeLong and Robin Hatch (on keys) put together an '80s-inspired pop band about a year ago in a Toronto apartment. I'll leave it to Cook to elaborate on the more interesting origin story.

While the bulk of Toronto and the 905 were at the Rogers Centre to see Swedish House Mafia, the show to see Friday night was Toronto's-own Trust at a sold-out Lee's Palace. None of this was hurt by Toronto's new hazy electronic up-and-comers, DIANA.

First and foremost, Lee's Palace is a fucking treat. What a lovely venue and music experience. Every time. Even an around-the-corner-up-the-stairs coat check line can't take away the flame. Lee's Palace is a treat, Toronto. A treat.

And so is Trust.

This new Ossington Ave. record shop was born out of the owner's overflowing stock of records, and his collection spans an impressive range of genres and eras. You won't find much in the way of newly-pressed vinyl (yet), but you know what they say about everything old being new again.

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Diamond Rings knows how to hype a show. And it worked. Selling out the Mod Club for a hometown show wasn't the biggest challenge, though. That was to come later. Later, when he was becoming one of Toronto's newest breakout artists, for real this time.