If you like the music taste of Indie Underground then you should appreciate this list of bands that I have narrowed down from the 1000+ that are playing on 50+ stages at The 19th annual NXNE Festival (June 10 to 16) in Toronto.
Most bands listed are of the Pop Rock, Alternative, DJ / Electronic with a hit of Folk & Hip Hop. Bands are listed alphabetically and given no indication of importance. Inclusion into the list is based off Aaron from Indie Underground’s own taste.
Note: This list may change in the next few days from continuous refinement from NXNE and Indie Underground.
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(YDS) – Yonge-Dundas Square
* Top Choices
- 2 Live Drew
- Absolutely Free
- ALVVAYS *
- Alright Alright
- Bear Mountain *
- Beliefs
- Big Black Delta – Free Show (YDS) *
- Blue Hawaii
- Boxer the Horse
- Braids *
- Brazos
- Breeze
- Catl *
- Cellephone
- Chad Valley *
- Chains of Love
- Cousins
- CTZNSHP – Free Show (YDS) *
- Dan Deacon
- Decades
- Different Skeletons
- DJ Shannon
- Doom Squad
- Double Fuzz
- Fast Romantics
- Fucked Up *
- Gold & Youth *
- Grounders
- Heaven
- Human Human
- In-Flight Safety
- Jane’s Party
- Julian Taylor Band
- July Talk *
- Kestrels
- Majical Cloudz
- Marble Lion
- Mikal Cronin
- Modern Primitives
- Modern Rivals
- Moon King – Free Show (YDS)
- New Hands
- Nightmare Air
- No Joy *
- Northcote
- Odonis Odonis
- Ostrich Tuning
- Paper Lions
- Paula
- Petra Glynt
- Pick A Piper *
- Prince Innocence
- Program
- Shannon & The Clams *
- Sloan
- South of France
- St. Lucia *
- Still Corners *
- Still Life Still
- Tangiers *
- Technical Kidman
- The Almighty Rhombus
- The BB Guns
- The DA
- The Danks
- The Magic *
- The Muscadettes
- The National – Free Show (YDS) *
- The Soft Moon
- The Yips
- Thomas D’Arcy
- UN *
- Valleys *
- Villagers
- We Are Scientists – Free Show (YDS)
- We Are The City
- We Are Wolves
- Werewitch
- We Were Heads
- Wild Domestic
- Wildlife
- Wintersleep
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Some other bands worth checking out include, Maladies of Adam Stokes, In My Coma, Jessica Speziale, Drop Dead Pinups, Mad June, & Ca.iro.
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