O Canada!

The team traveled to Toronto for NXNE right after SXSW and we felt so welcomed by the Canadian rock and metal industry. Our stage was held at the storied Bovine Sex Club downtown and it felt like the venue was made for us. Several of the panels at NXNE were focused on the case for booking Canadian artists, and our showcase was a great example of why the music industry should look at Toronto for talent.

Our Canadian bands included A Primitive Evolution, Phantom High, and The Divine Project (who you might recognize from our Alternative Escape stage this year). We couldn’t go over there without taking first class UK talent, and Blood Dealer fit in nicely with our new Canadian friends.

In addition to putting on our showcase stage, we expanded our team! We would like to welcome JJ Tartaglia and Rae Chatten, and they will form our RMA team in Canada. They were an integral part of our showcase’s success and we’re looking forward to working with them as part of the team going forward..

We also took another new recruit over with us Roxy Kraber who we have had on as part of our UK team for a few months now and she really has hit the ground running. Shes been an important piece of the machine for us and without her over the past months we really would of been up against it. More can be read about Roxy, JJ and Rae on our TEAM page.

RMA @ NXNE 2026

FEATURING :

THE DIVINE PROJECT

Photos by Rae Chatten