My wife & I will be in Toronto for a couple of days in June. We've never been there & don't know much about it. Can anyone recommend a good, but not too expensive, place to stay, or at least a cool part of town to stay in? Any good clubs or music stores we should check out while we're there? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Toronto is an amazing city, although I confess not having spent much time there in recent years and I only live 100 miles away.
Stay downtown for sure, if you want to check out Sky Dome, CN Tower(worlds tallest structure),Parlaiment buildings,City Hall Square,Eaton Centre(big mall),Take a ferry to City Island(lake Ontario),Ontario Place(Touristy),Royal Ontario Museum,Theatre,China Town, etc etc.all in a 3 mile radius. The city core is very vibrant and safe, with a great subway system to get around.
Queen Street is the main arts and fashion area(runs e/w)and there are lots of clubs and live music. It intersects Yonge St(main n/s). We do have a Hard Rock Cafe but there are zillions of bars pubs and restaurants.
I'm not up on curent specifics of places to stay or eat,but I remember Chelsea INN, and Sutton place hotel are downtown, but probably not too cheap. Real luxury is the Harbour Castle (on the Water) or the Sky Dome Has a hotel attached.This info may be outdated, so maybe some one else has the skinny on hotels or the current live scene?
Hope you enjoy. I'm inspired to go just thinking about it.

Hi Coplinger: Forgot to ask when you'll be visiting. I know there is a big conference in Toronto June 30 to July 3 and it will be very hard to get hotels in Toronto.

We'll be there before that. It will be closer to the beginning of the month. I don't know exact dates yet. Thanks.

check out a place called Cest What?
Queen St. East of Younge St.
great beer, great food, great musicians with no cover toones allowed...original toones that are damn fine

go west (of Younge) on Queen for cool shops, music stores etc.

check out Top of the Senator for amazing jazz blues

slimpig

Thanks slimpig!
Is that Younge pronounced like 'Tongue' or like 'Lounge'?

Its spelled Yonge and is pronounced like tongue, or young.
Also the Royal York hotel is downtown, very old, and quite posh