Plus: festivals III Points, NXNE and NOS Primavera Porto get postponed (new dates), Modern English, and more tours, festivals and events affected by COVID-19.
Vallens are a Toronto band led by Robyn Phillips who just released their debut single, "Tennessee Haze," last month. Phillips cites Twin Peaks as a big influence and you can hear that in Vallens' dark and smoky sound...
Toronto festival NXNE happens this week (June 17-21) with hundreds of acts playing venues all over the city. BrooklynVegan will be there too, with our showcase happening Friday (6/19) at Lee's Palace with Atlas Sound, Foxes in Fiction, Fresh Snow and a late night set from Yvette...
Toronto's Bad Channels, aka Nick Grottick and Jess Gierusz, got their start in the production world, making atmospheric beats for ISSUE and Kitty Pryde, but soon turned to their own music, as well as their city's own DIY scene...
Toronto instrumental quartet Fresh Snow have been making mutant, motorik psych for about four years now. They've got a 2013 album and a couple singles (including a split with METZ) under the belts and a new one is on the way...
Following criticisms of NXNE booking a free Action Bronson show in Yonge-Dundas Square, one of Toronto's busiest common areas, the festival initially defended their decision to book him and said, "Those who are offended by an artist are invited to check out other Festival sho...
Prurient (aka Dominick Fernow) recently announced a tour opening for Godflesh for late summer/early fall, but Dominick will be playing shows sooner than that under his Vatican Shadow moni...
NXNE has added a lot more artists to its 2015 edition which happens June 17 - 21 at venues all over Toronto, ON. Additions include Atlas Sound who will play a BrooklynVegan-presented show at Lee's Palace on 6/19 with Foxes in Fiction, Holydrug Couple, Fresh Snow and more TBA...
Jessica Pratt's new bare-bones folk album On Your Own Love Again (out now on Drag City) is one of the best of its kind in a while, and she's finally expanded her tour to include her first NYC show here since its release...