Karyn Ellis embodies the term "old soul". While most of today's artists tour by plane or bus, this Toronto-based indie songstress will be sitting on a train for three days and two hours in order to share her sweet and honest love songs with Vancouverites. Twice.

I was never very good at French in highschool, but local bilingual band Wintermitts (avec Lise Monique) teaches me all the French I need to know. Tonight, Wintermitts will be joined by The Ludvico Treatment, The Stalls, Jump + Dash, and Drer in a benefit concert at The Anza Club for the Buddha Home Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

If you're like me, every Wednesday you're probably trying to find a legit enough excuse to go out, get hammered, dance 'till you can't feel your legs anymore, and show up at work Thursday morning hung over, or better yet, still slightly drunk. Well, tonight you can make your dreams come true by attending the BCSPCA Fundraiser Dance Party presented by The Makeout!

The Makeout hosts its usual Wednesday night mayhem HEREIHAM at The Royal Unicorn Cabaret with DJs Sincerely Hana and Dani, but every penny of tonight's cover charge will be donated to the BCSPCA's End Animal Cruelty campaign. The BCSPCA is the only provincial animal welfare organization authorized to conduct animal cruelty investigations. However with inadquete animal protection laws and lack of governemnt funding, their attempt to end all animal cruelty in BC is challenging.

While we wait for animal protection laws to change, one way we can all help is to make donations to the campaign. Tonight, making a donation doesn't get any easier when you're also guaranteed to have a ton of fun. So tomorrow morning when your eyes are slightly glazed over while you're standing by the photocopier, and your boss furrows his eyebrows at you, you can tell him that you were out all night saving animals.

Pete Samples believes in magic. He lists it as one of his artistic influences. This Thursday, the self-proclaimed multi-instrumentalist will be bringing magic along with his laptop and turntables, guitar, piano, thrift shop toys and a handful of homemade instruments to The Lamplighter in Gastown.