Perhaps because it's Canada's largest city and centrally located. Vancouver on the Pacific and Montreal with both French and English music are also vibrant. Arcade Fire and Godspeed You! Black Emperor are from Montreal and Matthew Good is from Vancouver. Halifax was once coined the Seattle of Canada for its' abundance of alternative bands and grunge in the 90s...Sloan came from that music era...they have had considerable success as well as Wintersleep who are much bigger in Europe!
Big Ears Wrote:What is it about Toronto? Most of the major Canadian rock bands (Max Webster, Pat Travers, Rush, FM, Ben Mink) originated in the city. Is it the harbour and docks?
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!