NXNE

What's up friends? Today was a fantastic day in TO, I hope it was the same wherever you are reading from.

North by Northeast takes place from June 14-20, featuring 650 bands in 50 different venues across the fine city of Toronto. Wristbands are a mere $50, far less then the ticket for an average night featuring a washed out rock band/rapper act at  the gigantic Air Canada Centre. At NXNE, you get to see a ton of great up and comers for 6 days straight all for one price. It's a great investment and I hope you all make the mature decision to check it out because it'll be for your own good, trust me. Some personal favourites already confirmed include Surfer Blood, Wavves, The Soft Pack, Japandroids, A Horse and His Boy (London Ontario's very own) and HEALTH. I'm sure you'll be able to find a number of bands you also love that will be performing. Plus Iggy Pop and the Stooges are headlining the whole thing so you know shit will be going DOWN.

 Check out the NXNE site here..
 










Nathan Williams, Mr. Solo Dolo of Wavves 
Williams has been known to act like a complete asshole is certain cases like as seen here... hopefully with the addition of the Jay Reatard rhythm section he will be able to loosen up a little and play like he is here..? Unlikely, I know..
Check out Surfer Blood here!
And the Soft Pack here (formerly the Muslims of course)...in a show from one of their garage rooftops

IF these videos haven't convinced you, check out the North by Northeast website and look at some for yourself because you can probably find some bands you won't mind paying $50 total for seeing.


OK, enough NXNE promoting for today...I've been hyping up Sleigh Bells pretty hard on my 5 posts on this blog, so it'd be wrong for me not to post a link to their album Treats which was just released electronically this week and is currently being streamed online for free, no illegal stuff which is nice... here it is in it's entirety, or you can choose to listen to individual songs













More to come...