Project Nowhere is back this year, taking place on October 2-4, 2025 in Toronto. Today, the festival has announced the first wave of artists, including including The Armed, Warmduscher, Water From Your Eyes, Italians Do It Better artists Desire and Johnny Jewel, The Mystery Lights, No Joy, and more

The festival’s multi-venue format will span six spaces along Dundas West – Nineteen Seventy Eight (Expo Vintage Outlet), St. Anne’s Parish, The Garrison, The Baby G, BSMT254, and Hank’s Liquor.

Other artists taking part, include Truck Violence, Freak Heat Waves, Her New Knife, Montreal-based surf-psych rockers TEKE::TEKE, soundscapes from NYC’s emotionally transformative James K, Osees drummer Paul Quattrone’s psychedelic loop project Expensive $hit, dub-influenced atmospheric pop star Kat Duma, alternative post-punk 4-piece Ribbon Skirt (fka Love Language), west coast noise punks PISS, weirdo rock ‘n’ rollers Dana, the return of experimental songwriter Scott Hardware, an album release party for Toronto’s psychedelic doom rock band Witchrot, Fergus Jones, and CDSM.

Alex Edkins of METZ and Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck come together in their latest project Noble Rot, along with Daniel Lee’s jungle and club-influenced Lee Paradise, Toronto-based electronic music producer and vocalist New Chance, Detroit flower power trio Shadow Show, the haunting horror-gaze of Bonnie Trash, Orbital Ensemble’s vintage Brazilian jazz fusion, nomadic psych-pop prophet Gus Englehorn, polyrhythmic instrumental 4-piece Animatist, spontaneous free jazz improv supergroup High Alpine Hut Network, DIY indietronica outfit cootie catcher, steel city hardcore from Dear Evangeline, new wave sextet Miserable Weekend, legendary Canadian experimental artist and filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee and musician Dylan Gamble (of Hot Garbage) unite as Lee & Gamble Unlimited, new wave laced punk rock from Ancient Greece, and fresh garage-psych sounds from The Mersey Sound. Other highlights include audio visual performances by The Oscillitarium, Montreal VJ Anthony Piazza, and Winnipeg’s Colby Richardson.

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