Events in toronto: This Week in Music: NXNE schedule, World Pride additions, Dan Deacon + DIANA, Skrillex, Chris Isaak

Sunday, May 25, 2014

This Week in Music: NXNE schedule, World Pride additions, Dan Deacon + DIANA, Skrillex, Chris Isaak

This Week in Music rounds up the latest news, releases and concerts coming to Toronto.

NXNE schedule announced

Summer shouldn't be stressful, and summer festivals definitely shouldn't be stressful, but we all know that life isn't fair. NXNE offers a few choices to Toronto music fans who possess varying degrees of neuroses/commitmentphobia (pass holders or not) each year.

1. Stress out and make an obsessive schedule using their online Schedulizer (all times and dates of each act's set/sets have now been posted, including Yonge-Dundas Square). Realize you will never be able to astral project from venue to venue.

2. Wait to see what your stressed out schedulizing friends (at blogTO - and yes, we will be posting our free events guide again) are going to.

3. Plan nothing, end up a few choice/random shows (possibly while wasted. What was that band at that place called? You will never know).

4. Ignore the madness altogether knowing radius clause or no, all these bands will be back in town playing less hectic shows within a few months. Well, maybe you'll go to one free party.

World Pride line up additions

World Pride has puffed up its music line up: Yonge-Dundas Square will feature Against Me!, The Cliks, Robin S, CeCe Peniston, Rich Aucoin, and Hunter Valentine. Lydia Lunch and Pansy Division will be at Alterna-Queer (Alexander Parkette) and Peaches, Lightfires, Estelle, Kristina Maria, Diana King, Jully Black, the House of Xtravaganza Carole Pope, and the Parachute Club have been added as well. Check out the World Pride website here.

Hot Tickets

Dan Deacon, DIANA, Digits / May 29 / Adelaide Hall, (205 Adelaide St. West)

Affordable ticket of the week is this Red Bull Sound Select / Wavelength show at Adelaide Hall featuring heavy alteration: Dan Deacon, DIANA, and Digits share the bill. RSVP and show up early to get in for a mere $3.

Mothership Tour 2014 / May 30-31 / Echo Beach / 5pm / $75

I'll let Ben Boles take this one: we've heard your Skrillex jokes, and a lot of them are pretty funny, but the guy is a superstar for a reason, and it definitely isn't his haircut. Haters can hate, but the guy knows how to rock a giant festival stage. And really, what's wrong with bass lines that sound like Transformers puking?

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