Spill: Songs for Oil Spill Relief is a great new compilation, both as a benefit to fixing the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and a document of where the Toronto indie-rock scene is at in 2010. We talk with the man behind it, Ryan McCambridge.

Tom Jones gets a very special shout-out from Saidah Baba Talibah in her Garage Band interview with TORO's Jesse Skinner. Without revealing too much, let's just say it involves clothing.

TORO's music squad called up Sudbury, Ontario indie-rock band The Birthday Cakes, who took time out from walking their dog to tell us about their terrific tunes.

TORO sits down with identical twin production duo Christian Rich to talk about the state of their hip-hop legacy. Born in Chicago, raised in Nigeria, and experienced in New York, Christian Rich has brought hip-hop to another level.

Singing together in the church choir has paid off nicely for The Higgins, the country band from British Columbia that talks to Jesse Skinner in this interview. A trip to Nashville was inspiration for the band's latest album, Dreamers Like Us, but singer Kathleen Higgins is coy: “Players up here are great too … in Vancouver especially, there are a lot of great players.”

Toronto's dance-rock masterminds DVAS have just dropped their full-length debut, the brain-melting Society - we've got the scoop from main man Jered Stuffco.

After playing the chilling single "Letters from the Sky" in our Garage Band studio, Civil Twilight chatted with TORO's Jesse Skinner about the unexpected origins of the song and the band's evolving sound.

Denmark's The Blue Van chat with TORO's Jesse Skinner about rocking in the sixth grade and what it means to man up – also the name of their latest album (Man Up). Check out their Garage Band performance of "There Goes My Love," a song you might have heard on an iPad commercial or two.

Phantogram wasn't expecting the kind of critical reaction they received for their first album. "We listen to the positive," says keyboardist Sarah Barthel about the press, and she adds that the electronic duo didn't realize how fast they'd rise once it all began.