Zeds Dead

Hometown heroes Zeds Dead have been doing it for Toronto for nearly a decade. From their early days feeding the underground with Bassmentality, to their annual concerts, to dropping in for impromtu B2Bs at The Hoxton. As their following exploded, they’ve gone from local favourites to international headliners, but they’ve never forgotten about the city that birthed their career. On…

Zeds Deads’ Deadbeats festival is making its way back to Toronto! The event will take over Echo Beach on July 20th. Aside from Zed Dead themselves, the line up also features the legend Andy C, Ganja White Night, Grandtheft & Hunter Siegel (B2B), Dillon Nathaniel and Chuurch. It promises a wide array of sounds with a healthy helping of bass.…

Vancouver based producer Cozway set SoundCloud on fire last year with tracks like ‘Windbreaker’ and ‘Bamboo.’  The former found itself into our Top 50 Songs Of The Year list, while the latter track caught the ear of Deadbeats’ label manager and landed him the opportunity to rework Zeds Dead & Illenium’s collaborative anthem ‘Where The Wild Things Are.’ An opportunity which…

Happy Holidays! Hope you guys had a great Christmas and have an even better New Year on the horizon. We’re back with another installment of the best songs of the week to heat up your Friday. We get things started with a fresh collab from Ekali & ZHU. Highlights include Jauz & Zeds Dead’s new collab, Flosstradamus taking on Run…

Toronto bass legends Zeds Dead have teamed up with Denver’s own Illenium to come together for a rather surreal collaboration! ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is a harmonious tune which touches on the quality production points of both artists, in a manner which will take you to another land. Fans of either (or both) artist(s) will come to recognize Illenium’s…

French producer Nebbra first caught our ear back in 2015 with his incredible remix of Party Thieves & ATLiens ‘Chief’. Since then he’s pumped out a wide array of incredible remixes for everyone from Selena Gomez to Diplo and Zeds Dead and his massive rework for The Great Escape, which has clocked over 4 million plays. His consistency and quality not…

Zeds Dead’s Deadbeats imprint just unleashed their first compilation and it’s massive. The 9 track release sees some of the finest musical exports from Toronto and around the globe. Local favourites like REZZ, Pusher, Memorecks and of course Zeds Dead all make appearances while Megalodon, Kid Froopy, Nebbra, SMLE, Blount & Heckz rep the rest of the world. The sounds and…

On Saturday night The Hoxton hosted its final party. After 6 years of pushing the nightlife and music scene forward, the iconic venue closed its doors for the final time. For those unfamiliar, The Hoxton has been the hub for forward-thinking electronic music in Toronto. They acted as the home base for some of the greatest shows the city has…

As 2016 draws to a close you know we had to end the year by highlighting the best songs of 2016. As you’ve come to expect, this year’s list contains a broad array of musical styles and genres. We’ve got everything from ignorant turn-up bangers to thought-provoking, socially conscious hip hop and everything in between. The countdown continues today with 20-11…

“What kind of music do you listen to” is the most frustrating, overused question of the 21st Century. People ask this question as if “genre” is a neatly defined term, as if all music can quickly and easily be divided into “rap” or “rock,” “alt” or “pop.” What’s worse, we live in a day and age when artists are pressured to be…