A guide to help you navigate through a club crawler's weekend paradise
By JASON MACNEIL, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA
The North By Northeast Music and Film Festival and Conference gets going officially tomorrow with hundreds of bands in several different venues from the wee hours of the afternoon until the wee hours of the morning.
And while there are several shows associated or tied into this year's NXNE (My Morning Jacket, The Stills, Lightspeed Champion and Strike Anywhere among others), it's at the clubs over three days where all the highlights (and lowlights) usually take place.
Here's a sample of some of the bands well worth checking out during the hectic but heavenly musical feast:
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Basia Lyjak
Friday, 11 p.m.,
Hard Rock Cafe
Making her first appearance after a few months recording a full-length album, Basia Lyjak will be unveiling some new material including the song Stay. She's been compared to Janis Joplin among others.
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