NXNE

The 2015 edition of Toronto’s NXNE Festival happens June 17 – 21 at venues all over the Ontario capital. The initial lineup has just been announced and includes Action Bronson, The New Pornographers, Angel Olsen, Zola Jesus, Om, Rae Sremmurd, Deafheaven, Best Coast, Blonde Redhead, Iceage, Real Estate, Lower Dens, A Place To Bury Strangers, Pentagram, White Lung and more…

Viet Cong @ BV SXSW 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) The NXNE Festival happens in venues all over Toronto, Cananda from June 13 – 22. They’ve already had a few lineup announcements and have just released another round of artist additions, including Future Islands, AraabMUZIK, Pusha T…

NXNE returns to various Toronto venues from June 13-22, and since we last spoke the lineup has expanded. It now includes Spoon, Sleigh Bells, Spiritualized, tUnE-yArDs, A$AP Ferg, Metz, Ryan Hemsworth, Swans, Goat, Oneohtrix Point Never, Fuck Buttons, Low, Tim Hecker, Eagulls, Glasser, Kelela, Ratking, Perfect Pussy, Small Black, Le1f, The Pizza Underground, Swearin’, Dan Croll, DJ Jonathan Toubin, Astro, Juan Wauters, Mutual Benefit, Guerilla Toss, Calvin Love, Alvvays, Hunters, Saint Rich and more Those join previously announcd artists like St…

NXNE 2013 (more by David Andrako) NXNE is returning for its 20th year in 2014 from June 13-22 in Toronto, and the initial music lineup has just been announced…

We already posted pictures of the Mikal Cronin/Shannon & the Clams show from day 3 (6/15) of Toronto festival NXNE, and that same day we also caught Mikal on the annual M for Montreal / Panache Bruise Cruise during NXNE with Toronto locals Odonis Odonis, Montreal’s We Are Wolves, and rapper Fat Tony (who also played Yonge-Dundas Square)…

The music portion of Toronto’s NXNE festival wrapped up on Sunday (6/16), and we concluded our stay up there at the big, free rap show in Yonge-Dundas Square with Ludacris, Joey Bada$$, Smif N’ Wessun, Fat Tony, The Underachievers, Deniro Farrar, and MIckey Ava…

North Carolina rapper Deniro Farrar had a bit of breakout moment last year with Kill or Be Killed, his collaborative mixtape with Shady Blaze, and this year he caught ears with his solo mixtape, The Patriarch, which came out this past March…

But the afternoon, and perhaps NXNE as a whole belonged to recent Merge Records signing Mikal Cronin. This was his third of four shows at the fest and while he appeared rushed due to time constraints, Cronin sounded exactly as you’d hope he would: poppy but scrappy, daring but focused and completely engaging…

After the big, free National show in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, David Andrako hit a couple smaller club shows for his second night (6/14) at festival NXNE…

While the Northside Festival was going on here in Brooklyn, and Bonnaroo was going on in Tennessee, Toronto was hosting its annual NXNE festival…