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With Canada’s biggest new music festival and conference about to take over Toronto clubs June 12-15, NOW’s North By Northeast festival preview runs down 25 highlights of this year’s bigger and better monster club crawl.
#1. The wristband
#2. Cool bands from all over the world
#3. Jamie Lidell and the NXNExtra concert series
#4. The website
#5. Semi-precious weapons
#6. NME Showcase at the Reverb
#7. The Film Festival
#8. Dan Burke’s showcase at the Silver Dollar
#9. Evan Dando
#10. Swervedriver
#11. Platinum Pied Pipers
#12. Celebrity interviews
#13. Redd Kross
#14. The New Odds
#15. Money Mark
#16. Label Dating
#17. Let’s Go To War
#18. Dundas Square Music Market
#19. Insideamind#20. My Morning Jacket
#21. Moneen
#22. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
#23. D-Sissive
#24. ‘Mo Wave Showcase
#25. Spirits of the Dead
PLUS! Extra NXNExtra!