Toronto Live Music Guide

Discover Toronto’s live shows, record stores, venues and local artists.

A Short History of Live Music in Toronto

From Massey Hall and Maple Leaf Gardens to Yonge Street, Yorkville and Queen West, Toronto’s live music history was built room by room.

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5 listed active shows

  • Fri, Oct 168:00 PM

    Joe Policastro Trio

    The Rex

    Live Music
  • Sun, Oct 188:00 PM

    SELFISH THINGS (LAST SHOW) with Special Guests Jules is Dead & Seas

    Dance Cave

    Live Music
  • Sat, Oct 178:00 PM

    Joe Policastro Trio

    The Rex

    Live Music
  • Fri, Oct 167:00 PM

    Sanctuary Park Tour: Celebrating 40 Years of The Jayhawks

    Danforth Music Hall

    Live Music

    The Jayhawks / Julian Taylor

  • Tue, Oct 207:00 PM

    Twin Fin

    Monarch Tavern

    Live Music

    Twin Fin

Refreshed daily; Check the official event page before heading out.

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Stories from the room

The nights that stayed with the city.

Neil Young at Massey Hall: January 19, 1971

Neil Young at Massey Hall: January 19, 1971

Neil Young’s January 19, 1971 Massey Hall homecoming featured songs that would appear on Harvest. His producer wanted the live recording released next. It finally...

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El Mocambo live music venue in Toronto, Ontario

The Rolling Stones’ Secret Nights at the El Mocambo

The Rolling Stones used the name The Cockroaches for two secret 1977 shows at Toronto’s roughly 300-capacity El Mocambo.

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Toronto record stores

Sonic Boom storefront and entrance at 215 Spadina Avenue in Toronto.

Sonic Boom

Two floors on Spadina, with substantial used CDs and records that never make it into the online shop.

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Rotate This storefront at 186 Ossington Ave in Toronto.

Rotate This

An Ossington vinyl stop for new releases and used records, with a history stretching back to the Queen West shop.

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Yellow Kops Records storefront at 395 Queen Street West in Toronto.

Kops Records Queen

Kops' Queen West shop puts decades of record retail and a long interest in singles on the downtown shopping route.

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Featured venues

Horseshoe Tavern

Horseshoe Tavern

The Horseshoe is a true Toronto institution: a narrow front bar, a back-room stage and decades of Canadian rock history packed into a Queen Street...

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The Danforth Music Hall

The Danforth Music Hall

The Danforth is one of Toronto’s most reliable mid-sized rooms: old theatre bones, a broad floor and a neighborhood location that still feels connected to...

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