TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Weekend passes are on sale now at www.facebook.com/pnrockfest, at www.pnrockfest.com/en, at D-TOX / Amnesia stores and on the Admission Network (Ticketmaster).

Three limited VIP packages are available: VIP Reserved Seating Package, VIP Souvenir Package and VIP Ultimate Package. Bus packages from Montreal, Quebec City and other cities will also be available shortly.

ABOUT D-TOX ROCKFEST

Put together by Outaouais Rock, the festival has been growing considerably in the last couple of years and is now Quebec’s largest rock event. Known for its impressively diverse lineups, low ticket price, festive atmosphere and beautiful scenery right by the Outaouais River, Rockfest is quickly becoming a summer tradition. Located only 60 minutes from Montreal and 45 minutes from Ottawa, Rockfest is easily accessible for everyone. The festival recently won the Ovation Prize at Quebec’s prestigious Tourism Awards in the Festivals and Tourist Events category, as well as the Arts & Culture and Tourism prizes at the Chamber Of Commerce Awards.

Once again this year, over 100 bands will be performing live at D-TOX Rockfest, at the famous marina in Montebello. True to their good habits, the organization is finalizing an impressive lineup that will include a large number of international artists, Quebec’s finest and must-see emerging acts.
2012 edition: June 15th – 16th at the marina & June 11th -17th at various indoor venues.
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Quebec City, April 23, 2012 – What does the 45th Festival d’été de Québec have in store for us this year? True to form, the Festival has lined up top international stars and legends of rock along with the best of world music, indie-rock and folk. There will be room for nostalgia and delirium, for song, for emerging talent and a first this year, an all-electro night! Some names? Bon Jovi, Johnny Hallyday, The Offspring, Vincent Vallières, Metric, Skrillex, Patrick Watson, Sarah McLachlan, Radio Radio, Aerosmith, Beirut, Ariane Moffatt, The Barr Brothers, LMFAO, Mastodon, Grimskunk, Inna Modja, City and Colour, Big Boi, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Oliver Mtukudzi and dozens more.
”It’s always easy to say that there will be something for everyone, but this case it’s true. What we’re aiming for is to please the most people possible by giving them the best music out there right now. The Festival is like a snapshot of the latest hits, of the next big thing and of legendary talent that we can never get enough of. We’re convinced that this will be a brilliant 45th anniversary that will live up to the high expectations of our thousands of festival fans!” said Daniel Gélinas, general manager of the Festival d’été de Québec.

A JULY 5 EN FRANÇAIS!
Once again this year, the Festival opens in French. This time, the language that is shared by millions of people all over the world will be sung, played and recited on every outdoor Festival stage.
”With Quebec City hosting the first Forum mondial de la langue française, this was the perfect opportunity to celebrate the language that both unites and defines us. Delightfully romantic, provocative, funny, entertaining and lively, the French language will be heard everywhere on the evening of July 5,” added Marie-France Poulin, member of the board of the Festival d’été de Québec.
Québec’s talented singer Marième will kick off the evening. Her sunny music, with its reggae and pop beat, will liven up the Hydro-Québec stage at Place Metro in Place d’Youville starting at 6 p.m. Next, singer and guitarist Sidi Touré from Mali, with his warm and irresistible blend of blues, traditional music, rock and western. Then the party takes off with Radio Radio’s electro rap. These Acadian musicians sing in French and in the slang called chiac, and will be accompanied by a drummer and trumpet player. So put on your dancing shoes!
It will be party time at Parc de la Francophonie too, with a Québec evening start to finish featuring Bodh’aktan, Papillon and Mononc’ Serge. The seven musicians that make up Bodh’aktan will be first up on the Loto-Québec stage. Their traditional music is a lively mix of polka, Celtic, punk, and folk with a dash of humour and some rock to warm up the crowd. Papillon, with its happy, derisive brand of dirty rock, should keep things rolling along with special guest, Lucien Francoeur. Then Mononc’ Serge, with his witty, pointed humour, promises lots of laughs and an upbeat evening!
The Bell stage on the Plains of Abraham will be the scene of a show specially produced for the Forum mondial de la langue française, Le Français d’abord. As Pierre Boileau, the director of this super variety show, who also directed Rencontres and Paris-Québec à travers la chanson in 2008 for the 400th anniversary of Québec City, said, ”We’ll be celebrating all the wealth of francophone culture, its accents, its sounds and its music, which vary from one continent, and even one country, to the next.”
The participating artists will be announced in early June.

BELL STAGE ON THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM
”Diversity, balance and originality. This is what we kept in mind as we put together our program, a program that we’re very proud of”, explained Louis Bellavance, program coordinator for the Festival d’été de Québec, as the 2012 program was made public.
July 6 – LMFAO will have a young crowd out in force decked out in their day-glo duds, afros and rockin’ glasses to party!
July 8 – Get ready for Misteur Valaire and Jean Leloup. First, the electro pop masters roll out the big guns: six dancers and three guests, including Fanny Bloom, Bran Van 3000′s Liquid and Benny BBQ. Then enter Leloup, with his greatest hits and inimitable style!
July 9 – A master stroke– Bon Jovi! The US ambassadors of rock’n roll come to Quebec City at last for their only show in Canada. Their appearances here are rare; the last show was back in 2001. With a long list of hits to choose from, this concert promises to draw a pumped-up crowd!
July 10 – French rocker and superstar Johnny Hallyday brings his full-scale production to Quebec City for the first time. Up first, Don Felder, famed guitarist composer and former member of The Eagles, who will be playing some of their greatest hits.
July 11 – A mega electro party! The Festival’s first ‘technofest’ stars Skrillex, five-time nominees at the last Grammy Awards, along with a string of musicians and DJs. A super production featuring three different stages, a spaceship, lasers and fireworks, ‘technofest’ will be back every year.
July 12 – The legendary rock band, Aerosmith! Still as cool and original as ever after 30 years– the idols of more than one generation– they’ll be pulling out all the stops. And to open, Canada’s own Our Lady Peace is back with their chart-topping new hit, Allowance.
July 13 – Singer songwriter Sarah McLachlan interrupts her symphonic tour for this single performance with her musicians and guests.
July 14 – Punk-rock at its best with The Offspring. Dominating the scene in the late 90s, they’re back stronger than ever in 2012 with a new album. Part of the evening, Mute, rising Québec talent to watch for.
July 15 – Popular Québec singer songwriter Vincent Vallières closes the Festival with his guests, backup singers, horns and projections in a surprised-filled evening produced and directed by Karkwa’s own Louis-Jean Cormier. And to get things rolling, Marie-Pierre Arthur.

LOTO-QUÉBEC STAGE AT PARC DE LA FRANCOPHONIE
This year, the stage has a new sponsor and will now be the Loto-Québec stage.
”This popular stage has a unique ambiance that makes the Festival a very special experience both for its big-name artists and the audience,” said Lucie Lamoureux, director of corporate sponsorship and social commitment. ”In partnership with the Festival d’été de Québec, Loto-Québec contributes to the social and economic vitality of Québec while sharing some very intense moments with the public.”
Festival fans know this stage is the place to go for new talent, old favourites and original shows. At least two all-Québec nights are on the program. First, Pierre Lapointe and his Mal aimés on July 9 for a groovy show that’s sure to rock, with Salomé Leclerc and Monogrenade setting the tone. On July 10, the Festival gives Patrick Watson carte blanche for an evening of superb folk music. His guests: Avec pas d’casque, Thus:Owls and Sweden’s Loney, dear. The eleven musicians onstage with him will be moving from one band to the next. Two great evenings!
Next, it’s time for some blues with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the best blues album Grammy winners last February. Opening for these two outstanding musicians are Scrapomatic and Shane Murphy.
Then, heavy rock and an apocalyptic atmosphere, courtesy of A Perfect Murder, Mastodon and Grimskunk. And don’t miss Beirut this time; they left a lot of people out on the sidewalk two years ago; also watch for the up and coming Barr Brothers, and the very popular City and Colour. Led by Dallas Green, the band shifts from the rock of Alexisonfire to the indie-folk sound of their latest planetary success that plays to sold-out crowds everywhere they go.
Get ready for hours of dancing to the sound of Half Moon Run and Metric, whose new album comes out in mid-June, and for hip-hop fans, a ‘krazy’ night is lined up with K-os, Koriass and Big Boi. This is the same Big Boi who, with André 3000, makes up the famed duo Outkast, so get there early!

Finally, this is where Renée Martel, Québec’s own Queen of Country, will be celebrating her 60 years in show business. A surprise-filled anniversary with Paul Daraîche, Pierre Flynn and Mara Tremblay. Laurence Hélie opens the show, followed by Diane Tell.

THE HYDRO-QUÉBEC STAGE AT PLACE METRO IN PLACE D’YOUVILLE
Get ready for some hot nights partying and dancing to great world beat, funk, reggae and soul!
These festive evenings of folk, pop, soul and rockabilly music have lined up the Lost Bayou Ramblers, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires and Inna Modja, the young Malian singer who is taking Europe by storm, along with La Chiva Gantiva, made up of Walloon, Flemish, Columbian and Vietnamese musicians. Also a favourite of many festival fans, the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, not to mention that icon of soul, Bettye LaVette, and a fresh talent to discover, Donavon Frankenreiter!
Don’t miss the great world music performances by Les Tambours de Brazza, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars and Zimbabwe’s legendary Oliver Mtukudzi, or the line up featuring Besh o DroM from Hungary, Boulevard des Airs, the spiritual sons of Tryo, and the French-Algerian group, Gnawa Diffusion. Québec’s own Jah & I kicks off a reggae night in honor of the legendary Wailers.
There will be plenty of funk with the American bands Orgone, Soul Rebels and Galactic, plus the surprising Japanese band Osaka Monaurail, hip-hop with Deltron 3030 and world electro with Delhi 2 Dublin. Not to mention an amazing brass band from Serbia, the Slobodan Salijevic Orkestar.
Caracol, Kathleen Edwards and Pascale Picard Band are headlining an evening of female singers. Three great voices, three distinctive rhythms, three magic moments!
This stage starts to heat up at noon with artists such as Tire le coyote, Gypsophilia, Irreverend James & the Critical Mass Choir, Klô Pelgag, Bombolessé, Canailles, Chinatown, Hey Rosetta! and Les Revenants.
To wrap up these 11 days of music, the Festival d’été de Québec and Lucky Uke are challenging festival goers to beat the Guiness record for the most ukulele players! There were 1,200 at last year’s Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. How many will be playing at Place d’Youville on Sunday, July 15 at 3:30? Join the crowd!

INDOOR SHOWS
Presented by Groupe Voyages Québec, these shows are real crowd pleasers night after night.
At the Impérial de Québec, a program that’s sure to draw big crowds to shows that true music lovers wouldn’t miss.
Hip-hop night brings together Zoxea, a founding member of the Sages Poètes de la Rue, the French cult rap band, Anodadjay, Webster and Mauvais Acte, and an all-metal night with the Capitale du Métal is in the works.
Lots of pop and electro with some US bands here for the first time, Cults and !!! (say chk, chk, chk), along with France’s Yuksek, Canadian Sarah Slean and Québec’s own Grimes, Midnight Romeo, Foxtrott and Ariane Moffatt, who has a great new album out.
Plus indie with Kandle and Walk Off the Earth, reggae with The Beatdown and for jazz lovers, Sophie Milman.
Nanette Workman will wrap up the series in style with Frank Marino, Steve Hill, Bob Walsh and Guy Bélanger.
More names will be announced later along with the programs for the Largo resto-club, the Casbah and the Cercle.
For program details, go to www.infofestival.com.
The 45th edition of the Festival de Québec will be held from July 5 to 15, 2012.
The Festival d’été de Québec is presented by Bell in collaboration with Molson Dry.
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Two bands that have shared stages all over Europe and USA together announce that it’s Canada’s time to get this special block buster rock n’ roll package with 2 of the most enduring acts born of the 90′s alt/punk/rock era
The co-headline tour is an amazing opportunity to witness some great rock n’ roll up close and personal in an extensive tour of intimate clubs from coast to coast, as these two great acts address the state of rock n roll, voice your opinion, share your views and re-energize your rock Mojo by joining these globetrotting rock crusaders in a town near you.

Nashville Pussy releases a live record recorded all over Europe in a special 2 CD re-release of the remixed “From Hell To Texas” CD on April 24 through Steamhammer/SPV records/E1
Supersuckers are currently working on material for a new CD to be released next year.

Catch ‘em in a city near you !
April 11 Victoria BC Club9one9
April 12 Vancouver BC Red Room
April 14 Calgary AB Dickens Pub – SOLD OUT
April 15 Edmonton AB Pawn Shop
April 16 Calgary AB Dickens Pub
April 17 Saskatoon SK Amigo’s
April 18 Regina SK The Pump
April 19 Winnipeg MA The Pyramid
April 20 Thunder Bay ON Crock’s
April 22 Sudbury ON The Townhouse
April 24 Waterloo ON Starlight Lounge
April 25 Hamilton ON The Casbah
April 26 Toronto ON The Horseshoe
April 27 London ON Call The Office
April 28 Oshawa ON The Atria
April 29 Ottawa ON Mavericks
May 1 Peterborough ON The Red Dog
May 2 Montreal QC Foufounes
May 3 Quebec City QC Le Cercle
May 4 Moncton NB Manhattan Club
May 5 Moncton NB Manhattan Club
May 6 Halifax NS Michael’s
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Artist Reception:
Thursday April 5 7-9pm
at SHANGHAI COWGIRL
538 Queen St. W.

Come meet the lovely ladies of the Great Canadian Burlesque
AVIVA MIRAGE & PASTEL SUPERNOVA
and exhibiting artists FIONA SMYTH,NICOLE STEEN,EMILY THOMAS & PAIGE REYNOLDS

Complimentary “LADIES FIRST Drink Special” provided by Sailor Jerry Rum

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THE REAL McKENZIES are not just a band. They are an unstoppable touring machine. A road-hardened crew of traveling minstrels, entertainers and vagabonds on a never-ending quest for good times. For the past 20 years, this ferocious gang of miscreants has been captivating audiences around the globe with their addictive, uncompromising and undeniably heartfelt music. Featuring a diverse and insanely talented roster of musicians, The Real McKenzies draw on both acoustic and electric instruments to blend a potent concoction of classic punk, rock n’ roll, hard folk and traditional Celtic influence. Anthemic guitars and soaring bagpipes play off each other as Paul McKenzie spins yarns of times long past and regales with tales of endless drunken revelries. Blistering punk rock boot stompers stand alongside passionate sing-along ballads while good times and joyous camaraderie are all the order of the day.

Fueled by an insatiable need to share the McKenzies’ gospel with the world, the boys are equally at home playing to 20,000 screaming football fans in the heart of Germany as they are to a few hundred punks in the dirtiest, darkest, most disreputable clubs of the Canadian wilderness. After more than two decades, 8 full-length albums, countless compilation appearances and singles, The Real McKenzies have earned a reputation that is second to none. They’ve shared the stage with Rancid, NOFX, Flogging Molly, The Misfits, Pennywise, Shane McGowan and Metallica just to name a few, all the while garnering new friends and fans along the way.

And now they’re back with their first studio album in 4 years. Westwinds is packed to the brim with roaring, rollicking and epic tales that shanghai the listener on a thirteen song, sea-tossed journey through the wild and wonderful world of The Real McKenzies. Recorded over several months at Crabapple Downs by the phenomenal Steve Loree, Westwinds is a sonic shot across the bow, a record that demands your attention. From the unapologetic raised middle figure salute of “Fool’s Road” to the hook-laden tongue-in-cheek “My Luck Is So Bad” to one of the most poignant and blood-pumping renditions of “Barrett’s Privateers (Stan Rogers)” that you’ll ever hear, this killer album is set to become an instant classic in the collections of both new and diehard fans alike. Much like a fine single malt scotch, The Real McKenzies only get better with age.
Catch them live and buy them (and yourself ) a whiskey !
April 27 – Opera House – Toronto, ON
April 28 – Club Soda – Montreal, QC
April 29 – Le Cercle – Quebec, QC
May 1 – London Music Hall – London, ON
May 2 – This Ain’t Hollywood – Hamilton, ON
May 3 – Starlight Club – Waterloo, ON
May 4 – This Ain’t Hollywood – Hamilton, ON
May 5 – Ritual Nightclub – Ottawa, ON
May 8 – Pyramid Cabaret – Winnipeg, MB
May 10 – The Exchange – Regina, SK
May 11 – Dicken’s Pub – Calgary, AB
May 12 – Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB
May 14 – Royal Hotel – Nelson, BC
May 15 – The Red Room – Vancouver, BC
May 16 – The Red Room – Vancouver, BC
May 17 – Club 9One9 – Victoria, BC

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The screening takes place at the Toronto Underground Cinema -186 Spadina Avenue in Toronto on Thursday, March 22, 2012 from 6:00 PM.

Followed by a Q&A with Warped Tour’s founder Kevin Lyman.

More on the film can be found here: http://www.vans.com/microsites/warped/ and a trailer of the film can be seen here: http://bit.ly/yIwIXj

Formed in late ’88, The Supersuckers aim was to strip away some of the pretense of late ’80′s Heavy Metal and put a little showmanship into the Punk scene. It was a tightrope act few bands could achieve but, by the beginning of ’89, not only had the band done it, they were ready to make a move away from the dirt roads, dead ends and dust of their hometown.

Heads was New Orleans, tails Seattle.

Tails.

And, in May of 1989, off they went.
Most recently Eddie Spaghetti has been performing solo and will be doing so at The Bovine Sex Club on March 2nd with Big Tobacco & The Pickers and Cactus Vella.

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