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SONiC Boom weekend is finally upon us. 18 bands will take the stage at Borden Park and here is one song from each of them to get you hyped.

Twenty One pilots – Fun Fact: T.O.P, The Beatles and Elvis are the only artists to have 2 songs in the top 5 at the same time.

Halsey – Fun Fact: Her stage name ‘Halsey’ comes from a NYC street sign and is an anagram of her birth name Ashley.

July Talk – Fun Fact: The male singer/front-man Peter is from Edmonton and his father still lives here.

The Naked And Famous – Fun Fact: Their band-name is taken from Tricky’s Tricky Kid. “everybody wants to be naked and famous, everybody wants to be just like me”.

Atlas Genius – Fun Fact: Trojans was released independent of record label ( no marketing/promo help) just hours after being recorded and it spread across the internet like wildfire.

Hannah Georges – Fun Fact: Hannah is open about her battle with anxiety and aims to turn it into something positive with music.

Wildlife – Fun Fact: We once gave away a trip to see Wildlife perform on an active volcano.

Darcys – Fun Fact: Darcys once made an entire album covering Steely Dan.

The Royal Foundry – Fun Fact: They just won 3 Edmonton Music Awards including Single of the Year for the song below.

The Lumineers – Fun Fact: This is their first time ever playing in Edmonton.

Vance Joy – Fun Fact: Vance’s real name is James Keough. The name Vance Joy came from a book.

Arkells – Fun Fact: Arkells are named after the street in Hamilton they used to jam on.

Jake Bugg – Fun Fact: Jake was inspired to play music by a scene of The Simpsons featuring Don Maclean’s ‘Vincent’.

Wintersleep – Fun Fact: They wish they’d wrote “Oh Yoko” by John Lennon.

Banners – Fun Fact: Banners found his sound singing in a cathedral choir.

Zella Day – Fun Fact: Her mother chose ‘Day’ as a nod to Daniel Day Lewis.

Modern Space – Fun Fact: They ruined nearly all their stickers/posters on their first big cross Canada tour.

Syd Arthur – Fun Fact: This is a psychedelic jazz band (not a person) whose name is inspired by one of their favourite books Siddhartha, their favourite Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and their favourite Kinks album Arthur.

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