Project Nowhere Announces 2025 Lineup!

Project Nowhere returns for a third year to Toronto’s west end on October 2nd to 4th, 2025. The first wave of artists has arrived, promising the best of underground heavy hitters and up-and-coming talent from Toronto and beyond.

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. Show-hopping with a three-day pass is highly encouraged, the only way to experience all the shows one’s heart desires, all weekend long.

The electrifying 2025 lineup features Detroit hardcore punk spectacle The Armed, UK funk-punk alt-rockers Warmduscher, angular Brooklyn-based rising stars Water From Your Eyes, Italians Do It Better staples Desire and Johnny Jewel, fuzz-fueled 1960s garage elaborators The Mystery Lights, and Montreal shoegaze wonder No Joy.

Programming also includes hardcore folk from Truck Violence, ambient dub duo Freak Heat Waves, raw and vulnerable alt-shoegaze from Philly’s Her New Knife, Montreal-based surf-psych rockers TEKE::TEKE, lush 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 four-piece Ribbon Skirt (fka Love Language), west coast noise punks PISS, weirdo rock n’ rollers Dana, the return of beloved experimental songwriter Scott Hardware, an album release party for Toronto’s psychedelic doom rock band Witchrot, a masterful storm of trip-hop, dub and downtempo by Fergus Jones, and freakout post-punk party-bringers CDSM.

Toronto romantic goth art-pop group Vallens debut a new era, 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 four-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.

Keeping the audio visual are lysergic legends The Oscillitarium, Montreal VJ Anthony Piazza, and Winnipeg’s Colby Richardson.

Project Nowhere 2025 admat, artwork by Derek McKeon @zones.online