The best of the NXNE festival.
Click through the band name to read the full review. All videos by Graeme Phillips. Reviews and photos by Carla Gillis, Jason Keller, Benjamin Boles, Richard Trapunski, Andrew Rennie and Jordan Bimm.
1. Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Iggy Pop’s onstage fury and chaos tore the city a new one.
2. Thee Oh Sees
This San Francisco band hits the sweet spot between dirty rock and roll intensity and droney psychedelic weirdness.
3. Les Savy Fav
With this show, it’s easy to see why a rare Les Savy Fav live performance is the stuff of legend.
4. Big Freedia
Freedia may very well have cemented a place for New Orleans bounce music in Toronto.
5. Comenachi
Bold, raw, refreshing and hilarious.
6. AA Bondy
When it comes to the melancholy rural thing, this Alabama native can mope with the best of them – probably better.
7. Free Energy
Five easy-going dudes wearing drug rugs and feathers on their guitars, playing good time Southern-tinged rock.
8. Trust
Local disco act who are going to be exploding very soon.
9. Best Coast
Best Coast churned out the perfect soundtrack to the sweaty, summer night.
10. Young Empires
Young Empires had people literally jumping along to their songs.
11. X
Seminal LA punks X sounded positively ageless.
12. Glass Candy
Their quirky American take on 80s Euro-disco was definitely a hit on the dance floor.
13. 84.85
Amazing, intensely-fun electro-rap party for the ages.
14. Man Or Astroman?
It was all systems go for the packed Horseshoe.
15. Walter Schreifels
Former Quicksand frontman is a class act. [rssbreak]
