Every year Canadian Music Week descends upon Toronto just before spring officially hits – though it’s clearly the first major hurdle toward summer festival season: the weather is colder and generally all-around more miserable as bands, fans and journalists alike saunter from venue to venue seeking out some of their hometown favourites, out-of-province imports, or some of the rarer international acts that somehow make it on the primarily Canadiana-filled bill [not that we're complaining about that one ;) ].

This year – through sleet, and… well… more sleet – THE iNDiE MACHiNE tackled stairs, animals, crowds, bottles of Labatt 50 and more than several slices of Pizza to catch up with a slew of amazing bands. Stay tuned as over the next week we unveil to you all just a little bit of what we got to experience during Canadian Music Week 2011… that little bit that we managed to capture on … flash memory?! (not sure that sounds as romantically cool as “on film”).

And hey! Maybe you wanna share some of your odd or amazing stories with us? Drop us a line! Maybe we’ll post some of them??….. :)

WIRED: 46 – RED VIENNA	WIRED: 47 – MEMORYHOUSE	WIRED: 48 – DORA ALEXANDER	WIRED: 49 – LES JUPES	WIRED: 50 – WILL CURRIE & THE COUNTRY FRENCH
WIRED: 51 – THE SILLY KISSERS	WIRED: 52 – THE LINES	WIRED: 53 – KIDSTREET	WIRED: 54 – ELEPHANT STONE	WIRED: 55 – BRIAN BORCHERDT
WIRED: 56 – MADRID	WIRED: 57 – THE NATURAL SHOCKS	WIRED: 58 – DVAs	WIRED: 59 – KARKWA	WIRED: 60 – ALCOHOLIC FAITH MISSION