SXSW 2010: The Pictures

( Flickr ) South By Southwest / Austin, Texas / March 15-22, 2010 ( Flickr )
Took me a little bit longer than I would’ve liked but I finally went trough
all the pix I took at SXSW and here’s what I believe to be the best
ones in the bunch.
The list of artists/bands I was fortunate enough [...]

Osheaga 2009: The Recap

45 000 people.
That’s how many showed up for this year’s festivities. Readily beating the 28 000
that showed up last year.
Coldplay had a lot to do with this number obviously and it’s probably because of
them that we may see another edition next year but I’d like to think the rest of
the schedule was enticing enough for [...]

Osheaga 2009: The Schedule

The peeps at Osheaga finally revealed the schedule with the band
line-up for each days and set times.
Surprisingly, I only have one conflict on my schedule for the whole
weekend and that’s between The Roots and Lykke Li but really, The Roots
got the upper hand on this one.
As the Osheaga organizers likes pointing out, “Line-up subject to [...]

2009 Ontario Virgin Music Festival ( Lineup Announced )

At long last, the Ontario (not Toronto’s) Virgin Music Festival lineup
has been unveiled.
It shall go down August 29-30.
Goodbye Toronto Islands Park, hello Burl’s Creek! which is near Orillia,
Ontario, down highway 400, an hour trek from downtown Toronto … or so
i’m told.
The reason for the move?
“We’ve always wanted to bring the European festival experience to Canada,”
says [...]