Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Venue # 1: Yonge Dundas Square

This one was a no-brainer. The first half of the Yonge Dundas Square line-up is a real stunner, Cults (meh but tons of buzz), locals DD/MM/YYYY, DEVO (YES!.. DEVO!) Dirty Beaches, Gentleman Husbands are all GREAT and ….. it’s a FREE gig!

Venue # 2: The Great Hall

Look forward to Chad VanGaalen playing tracks off his latest release Diaper Island. The album is cohesive and full of delicate folk and upbeat moments. The Calgarian hasn’t forgot the lost art of lyricism either. Stay for Jennifer Castle.We haven’t heard too much from her yet, but she excites the hell out of us and we can’t wait to hear more.

Venue # 2:  Lee’s Palace

Twin Shadow is from Brooklyn, New York. If you haven’t heard of George Lewis Jr. already, think hazy-synth melodies and chill vocals. He has been on a festival whirl-wind this year playing Coachella, Bonnaroo and a ton of others events. Twin Shadow has also the opening act for Florence + The Machine on their latest tour.

Unique Events on Saturday:
Up for something adventurous? What about Ty Segall, Young Governor, Uncle Bad Touch and Jesuslesfilles ON A BOAT! Yep! Check out the Bruise Cruise presented by M for Montreal & Brooklyn Vegan. The Boat is leaving from 207 Queens Quay West, boarding at 1:30PM and it’s flippin’ free!

At 3PM there is a Red Bull Rooftop Party with DJ Valeo and DJ M-Rock, it’s also free! Email cora@popmontreal.com to RSVP!

Sunday, June 19th, 2011.

Sunday is a pretty quiet day with only a handful of shows. Tired? Hungover? We don’t care! GET YER PUS*Y A*S UP and go to the Launch Party for Static Zine at Sky Blue Sandwiches and Christie Pits.

Support local ‘zines! Let’s face it, everything in print is dying-out. Static Zine combines new-age social media w/ DIY cut-and-paste, launching only a week or two before NXNE. The event starts at Sky Blue Sandwiches at 2PM with a march to Christie Pits park with a great line-up, who the hell would wanna miss a rock ‘n’ roll picnic with Bravestation (in our top 5 fav. bands playing NXNE) and our very own TIMA winners, The Ruby Spirit? Notttt us!

Hey everyone,

We here at the TIMAs love Mixtapes. We especially love ones that we can post directly on our site. We were discussing our favorite mixtapes today and thought we would share a few of them with you! Check it out:

Mobius Band’s “Empire of Love” RELEASED ON V-DAY 2009!
http://www.mobiusband.com/vday09/
Kanye West “Sky High” Mixtape featuring songs from “808s & Heartbreak”:

DJ Benzi, Kanye West & Plain Pat present: Sky High
Did ya like that? Check this out one too. Kanye West Mixtape feat. songs from “Graduation”

LIL WAYNE “Dedication 3″ Mixtape:

DJ Drama & Lil Wayne – Dedication 3

Diplo and Santogold

http://rs82.rapidshare.com/files/134842344/santogold_vs_diplo_mixtape.zip

Their Blog with original mixtape posting and tracklist

Thanks to our own DJ Thunderbeats for some of the more elusive content!!