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Concerts Tech 

There’s a metaverse music festival coming up next month

October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Decentraland, Metaverse, Music Festival, Ozzy

Touring is exhausting, expensive, and bad for the environment. Some are predicting that a shift over to the metaverse to

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Concerts Music News 

If you’re a child of the 90s, check out this festival: Flannel Nation

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 90s, Everclear, Filter, Flannel Nations, Music Festival, Soul Asylum

If you remember the alt-rock 90s, you’ll be interested in this festival called Flannel Nation. Interesting that the poster has

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Music News 

Diesel Bird, a big Canadian online music festival is scheduled for TODAY.

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Diesel Bird, Music Festival

With COVID-19 deep-sixing any gigs and festivals for the foreseeable future, more artists are turning to online avenues for playing

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Interview Music News 

Q+A with Canadian Indie Week’s Darryl Hurs

September 10, 2019September 9, 2019 Gilles LeBlanc 0 Comments #IndieWeek2019, Darryl Hurs, Indie Week, Industry Conference, Music Festival, Q and A, Toronto

Indie Week promotes itself as the premiere emerging artist festival in Canada with five days and nights of music, showcases,

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Music News 

Toronto’s Field Trip music festival takes a year off

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Gilles LeBlanc 0 Comments Bummer, Field Trip, Hiatus, Music Festival, Toronto

Sad news out of Toronto festival-land as the city’s beloved Field Trip announced it is taking a hiatus in 2019,

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Music News 

A new three-day summer music festival comes to Ontario: Introducing Roxodus

November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Edenvale, Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Music Festival, Nickelback, Peter Frampton, Roxodus, Staynor

For the most populous province in Confederation, Ontario, should have more choice when it comes to multi-day outdoor music festivals.

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Music News 

Canadian Metal Bands Can Now Apply for Wacken Metal Battle

November 13, 2018November 22, 2018 Nerhys 0 Comments Battle of the Bands, Contest, Metal Battle, Music Festival, Wacken Metal Battle, Wacken Metal Battle Canada, Wacken Metal Battle International

Canadian metal bands are now able to apply to Wacken Metal Battle for the chance to play Wacken Open Air

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Music News 

Would you like to SMELL like your favourite music festival? Good news!

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Music Festival, Perfume, Woodstock

The differences are sometimes subtle, but each live music event has its own smells. Maison Margiela, a Paris company looking

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Music News Opinion 

Vans Warped Tour Toronto 2018: A Review by Nerhys

July 24, 2018 Nerhys 3 Comments Emo-Pop, Live Music, Metalcore, Music Festival, Pop-Punk, Punk, Reel Big Fish, Review, Review by Nerhys, Silverstein, SImple Plan, Ska, Ska-Punk, Sum 41, The Amity Affliction, The Interrupters, Toronto, Vans Warped Tour, Warped Tour, We The Kings

The final Vans Warped Tour has come and gone in Toronto and wow, what an experience! I needed a few

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Music News 

This video shows a potential music festival porta-potty nightmare

June 15, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Music Festival, Porta-Potty

Porta-potties are gross things at the best of times but never more so at music festivals. This video of flying

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Music News 

Well, this is a cool way to announce a music festival

May 24, 2018May 23, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments All My Friends, Golden Girls, Music Festival

We don’t normally equate a modern music festival with The Golden Girls, but… Read more here.

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