NXNE
Perfect Pussy
The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
It's rare to see a band play a handful of songs, freak out, trash their gear, subject their audience to ten minutes of noise and spoken wor...
Thug Entrancer
The Great Hall, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
With the crowd a bit shaken after a very angry Xiu Xiu set, Software's newest beat maniac Thug Entrancer provided a nice shift into the lat...
Oneohtrix Point Never
The Great Hall, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
Oneohtrix Point Never is a scientist of sound, a man whose electronic entities are living, breathing organisms that flourish alongside a mi...
Spoon
The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
The announcement that Spoon would play a (no longer) secret show at the Horseshoe Tavern was a delicious proposition made tastier in execut...
Eagulls
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
The task of kicking off NXNE's Friday night of music at Yonge-Dundas Square can be a thankless one on the best of days, with artists often...
Omar Souleyman
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
The growing international acclaim for a middle-aged Syrian singer 20 years into his recording career and whose popularity at home rests on...
Swans
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
"Let's bring these buildings down!", shouted Swans' Michael Gira before kicking into "The Apostate," from 2012's The Seer — and no on...
St. Vincent
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 20
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014
With four LPs under her belt, St. Vincent's Annie Clark has built a solid back catalogue of first-rate songs and could probably get away wi...
