Published on
June 20, 2008 in
Discussion, Featured, Festivals, Live Music and Live Review.
Tags: Best of, David Martel, Julie Doiron, NXNE, Rebekah Higgs, Spiral Beach, Sunrise Records, The Hoa Hoas, The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, The Silver Dollar Room, The Wet Secrets, Toronto.

As a wrap up to this NXNE-rich week on TransCanadaRadio, we’ve compiled the very best of the great music we saw and heard over the course of the week.
Here are the top 6 bands that all of us at TCR agree were the very best of the best, in no particular order:
Click here for TransCanadaRadio’s top 6 artist picks from NXNE ‘08!

It’s a small world — David used to play music with some high school friends of mine years ago. Recently I posted a Facebook note asking my friends to recommend great Canadian artists and I noticed David Martel’s name came up many times and with good reason! I can honestly say that this guy blew my mind. I went in as a nearly blank slate, only having listened to a very short clip of his stuff via his Myspace. But armed with the praise of my friends, I went to check him out at Sunrise Records on Thursday, the first day of NXNE.
Check out the video after the cut!