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NXNE 2011

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We are under a month away from this years NXNE Music Festival and they’ve just announced the third wave of bands for the 17th edition of the festival, taking place in Toronto from June 13th until the 19th.

from press release:

NXNE has just confirmed that hardcore heroes FUCKED UP and glam gallant DIAMOND RINGS will join the Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) line-up that includes previously announced acts such as Devo, Stars, The Pharcyde, Land of Talk, Digable Planets, Descendents, OFF! and Men Without Hats.

Men Without Hats will also play an intimate club show on Thursday, June 16 at The Great Hall in addition to their YDS performance – and Fucked Up headlines the NOW Magazine showcase on the same night, at Wrongbar.

Newly announced as part of the NXNE Music Festival are HANDSOME FURS, previewing tracks from the new album Sound Kapital, GRIMES with her genre-bending pop, retro Manhattan garage-pop stars THE POSTELLES, Los Angeles four-piece SUPERHUMANOIDS, Portland folk outfit HORSE FEATHERS, Pixies tour mates IMAGINARY CITIES, action comic-punk band PEELANDER Z, Nashville garage punks HEAVY CREAM and critically acclaimed one-man band GUARDS.

Tickets are online, see the full list of artists here.

Yours Truly and Invisible Children Present

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Invisible Children Holiday Benefit
A holiday benefit show at the Troubadour on Dec. 20th called the Invisible Children Holiday Benefit, presented by KCRW radio, curated and filmed by Yourstru.ly with support from Los Angeles music blog, Rollo & Grady. This will be the first official performance of an unreal secret headliner; plus performances by Mountain Man and Guards, with a special Deertick acoustic set performed by John McCauley. The evening will include limited edition show posters designed by Florencio Zavala, the former creative director at Shepard Fairey Studio Number One. All proceeds will go towards Invisible Childrens programs to help the war-affected people of East Africa. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Troubadours website.

About Invisible Children–
Invisible Children uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s rebel war and restore Northern Uganda to peace and prosperity.
Any guesses to who the headliner is? Check out this show, its for a good cause.

Intro to Small Plates Records

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This blogger turned label thing is catching on.

IGIF and YVYNYL have announced a joint venture to form Small Plates Records, a label-based cooperative with a goal of initially helping new bands made some 7? vinyl, then eventually moving into a full roster or artists and releases. Their first project will be in the debut vinyl release from NYCsGuards; a7? release with three tracks (Resolution of One is on the a-side, while the double b-side has Crystal Truth and Long Time). A limited run of 500copies on multi-colored vinyl will be available for this release.

IGIF has an mp3 of “Resolution of One” for download.

I wish both IGIF andYVYNYL good luck withSmall Plates Records, chances are, I’m going to love everything they sign.

Question is, will Indie Music Filter ever form a label?

Well, I’m swamped with the publishing company, maybe if I find the time?