The 14th annual North by Northeast (NXNE) Music & Film Festival and Conference (www.nxne.com) is getting ready to take over Toronto from June 12-15, 2008. This year’s conference will play host to more than 500 bands, plus throngs of agents, talent buyers, label reps, promoters and press who will scour over 50 venues to hear the best in Canadian and International indepedent music. Some highlights from this year’s festival include:

Dan Mangan
Death Set
Evan Dando
Great Lake Swimmers
Hot Springs
Julie Doiron
Ladyhawk
Lightspeed Champion
My Morning Jacket
Redd Kross
Sloan
Small Sins
Swervedriver
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Teenage Head
The Besnard Lakes
The Stills
The Tom Fun Orchestra
We Are Wolves
Young and Sexy and many, many, more…

Check out this spreadsheet for the full schedule of all the bands.