NXNE 2007 Picks: Saturday, June 9th

My day is going to be starting quite a bit earlier than a normal saturday for me, heading down to the Yonge-Dundas square in Toronto to see bands play at the Indie Music Market. 12pm: Burning Boyz. Four 7 year olds who rock. Check out this Video. 1pm: Charlemagne. Hopefully a nap this afternoon. 9pm: […]

NXNE 2007 Picks: Friday, June 8th

If you are looking to head to one bar tonight, here’s your best bets. DOTE Management showcase. Junior Boys, Born Ruffians, We’re Marching On, Young Rival, Koushik. Mod Club (50 badges/wristbands). Voxtrot with Favorite Sons, Au Revoir Simone (all ages at 6pm), late show at 9:30pm (50 badges wristbands). But if you are like me […]

NXNE ’07 Picks #2: Thursday, June 7th

Ok, I too have spent my time going over the bands listed using my own musical mindset, I’ll just spit out a few thoughts about Thursday… 9 pm: Diemonds, Bovine Sex Club. If you like 80’s rock in the vein of Pat Bennatar, or Television, or Joan Jett, you might want to check these guys […]

NXNE 2007 Picks: Thursday, June 7th

I spent quite a few hours with the NXNE schedule robot over the last couple of days, here’s what it spat out for Thursday…. 9pm: Horton The Irrelevant & August The Creep, Harlem (67 Richmond). Check out What I Know here. Rebecca Higgs, Sneaky Dee’s. Download Parables on her myspace page. 10pm: Five Blank Pages, […]


Andrew Bird

Two weeks ago while in Vancouver, I found myself in the rain in search of Vancouver’s best record store, Zulu Records. I had this image in my head of what the store was like from countless phone calls, making ‘tracking’ calls to retails stores at my day job in ’06. I hated that part of […]