Where N2D will be at NXNE 2012


We're less than a week away from the start of NXNE, Toronto's northern sister festival to SXSW: seven days of music (650 bands), interactive and film (40). This year, in addition to meeting up with even more friends and CBC Radio 3 bloggers and listeners, N2DS2W has added some interactive sessions to our "North by" schedule. Here are some of our picks and plans beginning Weds., Jun. 13. We've learned to play things by ear (tres apropros for a music festival, no?), so you'll see multiple bands in some time slots. You can check out all of these bands at CBC Radio 3 and their listing on the NXNE site. If you're attending and haven't already, check out the NXNE new and improved Schedulizer.

Weds., Jun. 13

2 p.m. - Interactive session: Punk: A Not so Unbiased Take on How it Shaped All Modern Music (Speaker/Panelist Damian Abraham, lead singer of Fucked Up)

3:15 p.m. - Interactive session: Living In The Map: Adventures In Making Detroit A More User-Friendly City

8:15 p.m. - Shred Kelly @ Gladstone Hotel (Tracks on Tracks showcase, $15 without a wristband)

9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. - We'll be on The Boat for Loon Choir, Knock Knock Ginger and We Were Lovers


Thurs., Jun. 14

2 p.m. - Interactive sessions, The Rise of the 'Artistpreneur' & Entertainment Industry 2.0 (Speaker(s)/Panelists: Alex Metcalfe, D-Sisive, Matt Fullbrook, Jayson Gaignard)


8:00 p.m. - Boxer the Horse @ El Mocambo

9:00 p.m. - Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers @ Horseshoe, Stella Ella Ola (Hollerado members' side project) @ Velvet Underground, Hooded Fang @ Horseshoe


10:00 p.m. - Bishop Morocco @ Rivoli, the weather station @ Great Hall

11:00 p.m. -  Papermaps @ Rancho Relaxo, Spookey Ruben @ Great Hall, Gold & Youth @ Rivoli

12:00 a.m. - Dusted @ El Mocambo, Jenny Berkel @ Free Times Cafe

1:00 a.m. - Julie Doiron @ Great Hall, Bran Van 3000 @ Horseshoe, Creature @ Painted Lady


Fri., Jun. 15

8:00 p.m. - The Unquiet Dead @ Cadillac Lounge, Erin Passmore @ Dakota Tavern, Octoberman @ Gladstone Hotel

9:00 p.m. - Goose Hut @ Silver Dollar, Bidiniband @ Horseshoe

10:00 p.m. - The Danks @ Dakota Tavern, Foam Lake @ Rancho Relaxo, Hooded Fang @ Silver Dollar, Two Koreas @ Velvet Underground

11:00 p.m. - The Provincial Archive @ Painted Lady, Elephant Stone @ Dakota Tavern, Parlovr @ Silver Dollar

12:00 a.m. - Brasstronaut @ Gladstone Hotel

2:00 a.m. - Cobra & Vulture @ Cameron House


Sat., Jun. 16

2:00 and 3:30 p.m. - Masia One and Gregory Pepper & His Problems @ Harbourfront Red Path Stage


9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. - Poor Young Things, Special Guest, The Lumineers, Young Empires, catl, Fast Romantics and Mad ones @ Horseshoe (CBC Radio 3 Showcase)

10:00 p.m. - Jeans Boots @ The Central

11:00 p.m. - Little Foot Long Foot @ Bovine Sex Club