Tag: NXNE
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Om @ The Opera House – June 19th, 2015
HELLBOUND.CA @ NXNE 2015 Immense expressiveness. Power, boldness, no need for pomp at all. I don’t believe anybody could really sum this kind of performance up in a screen-friendly number of words, but that’s coming close. Sometimes we say “expert musicianship” when we want to say a performer is incredibly impressive. Also it seems those…
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NXNE 2015 – Urvah Khan, Cold Cave, Deafheaven
Gig-hopping at NXNE 2015 – from the Bovine to Adelaide Music Hall on June 20th: On the edges of the metal world we get a lot of interesting phenomena these days. With a full program at NXNE, I got some direction and was led to an act called Urvah Khan & the Scrap Metal Army.*…
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Liturgy @ The Opera House, Toronto ON, 19 June 2015
HELLBOUND.CA @NXNE2015 “Are you ready for some transcendental black metal?” asked a friend I ran into, while prepping my camera, as the lights went down on a Friday night in Toronto. That was all the preparation I had for the set, as apparently I have been living under a rock for the past two or…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Gruve
Reports from the North by Northeast trenches Gruve at NXNE 2014 Hey Hellbound readers, my name’s Jay Pollmann. I play in the groove based dirt rock band GRUVE. Hellbound.ca asked us to document our NXNE experience this year and we gladly accepted the offer. We were thrilled to be a part of the 20th year…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Redanda
Reports from the trenches Redanda & Buddy-Boys at NXNE 2014 This is being written with a fairly heavy hangover, but hopefully that means our experience at NXNE 2014 is still fresh in the mind, however hazy. We departed from Hamilton (which a beer girl at the tents at Yonge & Dundas kindly referred to as…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Sumo Cyco
NXNE 2014 – reports from the trenches It’s North by Northeast time in Toronto, that moment that comes every June when the city’s venues and the odd public space become host to ten days of music, film, comedy, art and interactive events. Hard to believe this has been going on for 20 years now! NXNE is not…
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Maaaan, when did Monster Truck get to be so big!?
I’ve been living and attending concerts in Toronto for over seven years now, so it’s safe to say I’ve seen a few local bands who got big well before they were known commodities. But now, I can even say I’ve seen a band from Hamilton go from the Toronto scene to the national stage. That…
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If you only see one band at NXNE this weekend…
Post-ambient shoegaze drone doom duo (for lack of a better term) Nadja make their triumphant return to Toronto at The Garrison this Sunday. This is literally the only NXNE gig I’m attending this year. Yes, it’s that worthwhile.
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Descendents/ OFF! @ Yonge Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 16 2011
“While this bout of First Gen punk rockers strutting their new stuff (OFF!) or taking a skank down memory lane (Descendents) was clearly not about to grab Southern Ontario by the short and curlies, with enough bodies filling the concrete lawn to instigate agoraphobia, it was clear that Southern Californian punk rock has clearly grown…