Courtesy of Infected Mushroom Prolific, as constantly touring DJs should be, Infected Mushroom have been creating and releasing music virtually every year since their inception in 1997. 'Pink Nightmares' is the psytrance group's frantic, pop-tinged 2011 showpiece. Formed in the Israeli port city of Haifa, Infected Mushroom has since relocated ...

Mad Decent South Rakkas Crew may now be based out of Florida, but the DJ duo Alex Greggs and Dennis 'D-Rakkas' Shaw originate from greater Toronto, an another area boasting a strong dancehall scene. But what took South Rakkas -- part of an early wave of Mad Decent-cosigned artists -- beyond the Caribbean diaspora was how they were able to ...

C Flanigan, Getty Images "This year the scene just blew up," Ryan Kruger, co-founder and promoter of Southern Ontario's World Electronic Music Festival (WEMF), tells Spinner. Established in 1995, the three-day outdoor festival was held annually in varying picturesque locations around the Canadian province until 2008. "We'd gotten to a point ...

WireImage | Getty Images | FilmMagic By 4PM on Sunday, July 31, the day of Drake's second annual October's Very Own (OVO) Festival at the Molson Amphitheatre in his hometown of Toronto, Twitter was a flutter with the rumour that Stevie Wonder was currently soundchecking at the venue. At last year's inaugural event, Drake proved his growing ...

Joshua Ostroff for AOL It was with quiet confidence that the Weeknd mastermind Abel Tesfaye executed his very first show Sunday night (July 24) in Toronto at the Mod Club. But the hour-plus, outrageously anticipated performance itself was anything but timid. No one knew what to expect from the stealthy, press-shy R&B singer. We've never ...

Ryan Walter Wagner It's only been two years since Vancouver's Babe Rainbow, aka Cameron Reed, began dreaming up dense, diabolic beats on his computer, but he's already releasing a second EP for super-esteemed electronic label Warp. The 'Endless Path' EP is an eight-track collection of Warp-encouraged sonic experiments in free-form bass music ...

Myspace Multi-faceted musician Miles Jones -- rapper, songwriter, composer and producer -- recently re-released his 2010 album, 'Runaway Jones,' in the U.S., and the "trickle back" buzz has him hyped for his third year of NXNE. With a new collaborative instrumental project out alongside D-Sisive producer Muneshine, aptly titled Muneshine ...