Where: Lee's Palace
Toronto
M5S 1Y5
Canada
Toronto
What: JayWood @ Lee's Palace
When:
Second Summer is bringing music discovery back to real life. No scrolls, no hype, just great artists doing what they do best.
To celebrate the unveiling of the new festival, Second Summer has confirmed a special launch event in Toronto at Lee’s Palace on September 24, 2025 featuring British post-punk icons Dry Cleaning, with support from the haunting Bria Salmena, genre-blurring, alt hip-hop/neo-soul of JayWood and Toronto’s max-voltage and defiant, Slash Need — all supported by a DJ set by the beloved Born Ruffians at an industry mixer pre-show.
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M5S 1Y5
Canada
Who: JayWood
Indie Alternative
JayWood is the enigmatic, artistic outlet for boundary-pushing musician and singer-songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith. JayWood fluidly navigates the blurred lines between genres such as Alternative, Hip-Hop, Indie, and Neo-Soul—all territory where he feels completely at home. This is evident in his self-produced Polaris Music Prize nominated album “Slingshot” (2022) and the follow-up EP “Grow On” (2023), released via Captured Tracks and Royal Mountain Records. As displayed on the recently released, genre-blending singles “BIG TINGS” feat. Art-pop duo Tune-Yards and “UNTITLED (Swirl),” JayWood can’t be pigeonholed, and his upcoming single “ASSUMPTIONS” is no exception to that rule. As trippy and in-your-face as the forthcoming album LEO NEGRO (out now), the hip-hop production here is laced with psychedelic flourishes and braggadocious, neo-soul energy, owing as much to Tyler, the Creator as it does Stereolab and indie darlings Men I Trust.