Who: Wintersleep When: Saturday June 14th 2013| Where: The Danforth Music Hall One Word: Spiritual So I have heard from a little Halifax bird that Wintersleep is always a good show but they play all over the East Coast. They are from Halifax. So is my eastern song loving bird. I...
Teen Violence at The Painted Lady, Toronto– photo Jessica Paiva, Music Vice Magazine Who: Attagirl, Teen Violence, JOJETO and Little Creatures Where: The Painted Lady When: Saturday June 15, 2013 One Word: Adrenaline Toronto is one of the best cities in the world that welcomes many huge music festivals, including North...
Who: The National Where: Yonge-Dundas Square When: Friday July 14, 2013 One Word: Cheeky When NXNE announced that The National would be headlining at Yonge-Dundas Square, I was a bit surprised. While they are an arena band who have headlined festivals, I questioned whether they were dynamic enough for such...
Dinosaur Bones at Danforth Music Hall – photo Glyde Barbey, Music Vice Magazine Who: Dinosaur Bones Where: The Danforth Music Hall When: Saturday June 15th, 2013 One word: Complimentary It’s difficult to draw a crowd out to the east end. Us kids would rather stick to a safe pedaling distance within...
Hungry Lake – photo from Facebook Who: Hungry Lake Where: The Sister When: Friday June 15th 2013 In One Word: Average North by NorthEast (NXNE) music festival gives us the opportunity to discover new music talent as well as diverse music venues. Some of which, turn out to become future favourite...
Who: Sean Nicholas Savage Where: The Comfort Zone When: Thursday, June 13, 2013 In One Word: Naked People seem to have a hard time knowing exactly how to react to Sean Nicholas Savage. A common knee-jerk reaction is to take his bug-eyed son-of-John-Waters appearance and extremely uncool musical fixation on adult-contemporary...
Who: July Talk Where: The Mod Club When: Thursday June 14th 2013 In One Word: Complete Singer Leah Fay of July Talk announced last night, “I hope you all have a lovely summer without me Toronto. We are leaving at 8am tomorrow morning for our tour… We might catch you at...
Who: Invasions Where: Silver Dollar Room for NXNE When: Thursday July 14th 2013 One word: Progressive The Silver Dollar Room is such a well deserved, glorified dive. So much of Toronto’s culturally defining bands start at the Dollar, or end. It is, and has always been, the womb of one scene...
Who: Mozart’s Sister Where: The Rivoli When: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 In One Word: Ecstatic Pop music is finally cool. I am grateful for this. It’s a change in cultural attitude that’s been coming for some time now, but after about a decade of the bogus hierarchical divisions between genre and...
NORTH BY NORTHEAST music festival in Toronto is. Here are some recommendations of some cool shows to catch at NXNE 2013. Broken Pencil and NXNE Present Sex and Death: A Night of Readings and Music at Creatures Creating, 822 Dundas St W, Wednesday, June 12 On Wednesday June 12th Broken Pencil,...Music Vice Magazine - www.musicvice.com - Independent online music magazine established 2002: UK, Canada, Australia and Planet Telex
