Doldrums: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyors of: Collage pop, Sub Pop, dark electronic dance music. File next to: Grimes, Animal Collective, East India Youth Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! In an interview, Jim Morrison of The Doors envisioned that music in the future would consist of a one-person setup with electronics and machines: singing, speaking, and creating.
Allegories: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 7, 2015Purveyors of: Cavernous pop songs and intrigue. File Next To: Big Black, Washed Out, a happy nap. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Set!) at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Allegories are a guild of shadowy figures that emerge occasionally from behind the veil of the Internet to woo audiences with the
Loscil: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyor of: Submerged, icy, low-end ambience, minimal techno and drone. File next to: Tim Hecker, Tycho, Stars of the Lid Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Synonymous with the element of water as it is with isolation, Scott Morgan’s deep, desolate soundwork as Loscil provides an almost too-perfect complement to the setting for the i
Kurt Marble: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 6, 2015Purveyors of: Fuzzed out, throwback garage glam rock with heavy pop hooks. File next to: Ty Segall, T-Rex, King Tuff Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Get your tickets here! Fathers! Lock up your daughters, and sons, because we’re all at risk from being infected with Kurt Marble’s STDs. That’s Sonically Transmitted Ditties. Sympto
Kidstreet: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 5, 2015Purveyors of: Smart, snappy electro-pop that’s infectious — but not in a clinical way File Next To: Esthero, Martha + the Muffins, Robyn Playing: Camp Wavelength (Late Night* Set!!) Saturday, August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your tickets here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Kidstreet have been M.I.A. for a few years, but Camp Wavelength will mark the return
Etiquette: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 27, 2015Purveyors of: Moody synthpop for the bedroom and, occasionally, the ballroom. File next to: Beach House, The xx Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! Toronto’s Etiquette seemingly emerged fully formed in late 2014, but in truth, its members have been here the whole time. Founded by Julie Fader (a solo performer in her own right, but
Scattered Clouds: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 4, 2015File next to: Timber Timbre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor Purveyors of: Late-night feel-bad music for deviants on the prowl. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Formed in 2010 as a solo project, Hull, Quebec’s Scattered Clouds expanded into a baroque exploration of the sinister. Lurching with brooding intensity, the music of Scattered
Blonde Elvis: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 27, 2015Purveyors of: Sexy guitar pop. File next to: Josef K, The Flamin Groovies, Orange Juice Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Jesse James Laderoute: frontman for Blonde Elvis, Torontonian for 11 years, and lover of the email interview. Inspired by the rumblings of the city, Laderoute’s music falls somewhere between modest self-awaren
Anamai: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 3, 2015Purveyors of: Experimental folk and sing-song ambience File next to: Neil Young’s Le Noise, Bibio, Twist, Del Bel Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! I’m really not sure what to expect when I show up to meet Anna Mayberry at the Holy Oak one sunny afternoon. A punk screamer or a winsome mewler? An outspoken force or shy recluse? Tur
The Nihilist Spasm Band: The Wavelength Interview
September 17, 2015Sounds like: Marbles rolling around in a few pots and pans. File next to: Do not file this. Playing: Tonight! (Sept. 17) at The Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.) – Tickets at the door. Earplugs available at the merch table! What is a “spasm band”? In essence, it’s a group of folks who make a racket with instruments they’ve either found, built, or – as is sometimes the case – a
Holy Fuck: The Camp Wavelength Interview
July 31, 2015Purveyors of: Electro-acoustic jams using toys, keyboards and other noisemaking objects with live bass & drums File Next To: Hot Chip, Liars, LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Fuck Buttons Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Holy Fuck are back! After a hectic six-year tour schedule and the subsequent time off, a new album is nearly ready f
Above Top Secret: The Camp Wavelength Interview
July 27, 2015Purveyors of: Futuristic mysticism, hip-hop positivity mashed up with electro-industrial menace. File next to: Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Set) at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! When it all crashes down, you have to build it up again. A couple
Baby Cages: The Wavelength Interview
November 5, 2015Purveyors of: Mutating goth pop. File next to: Siouxsie & the Banshees, Massive Attack, Cat Power Playing: Friday, November 13 at The Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St.) — Get your tickets here! The music that Toronto/Halifax duo Baby Cages makes is hard to describe. Certainly goth-tinged, it shares commonalities with a diverse group of influences from the reality-folk of Cat Power to the
Bernice: The Wavelength Interview
November 8, 2015Purveyors of: Soft indie R&B, in which the R stands for romanticized melancholy and the B stands for blissful memories. File next to: Feist, Little Dragon, Juana Molina Playing: Friday, November 13th @ the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St.) — Get your tickets here! Bernice is “tenderness encapsulated, smoothnesses ebbing and flowing. A warm mauve light hums where butterfly kisses fl
Swedish Azz: The Wavelength Interview
June 23, 2015Purveyors of: The sound of jazz falling down a very long flight of stairs, and sticking the landing perfectly. File next to: The little-known history of Swedish jazz Playing: Wavelength 670, Tuesday June 23 @ Hard Luck Bar, opening for The Ex Maybe Sweden isn’t the first place that pops into your mind when you hear the word “jazz” — but without Sweden’s rich jazz history, perhaps M
Esmerine: The Wavelength Interview
November 11, 2015Purveyors of: Intricate and collosal tapestries of sound. File next to: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Rachel’s Playing: Friday, November 13th @ the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St.) — Get your tickets here! Esmerine is a creation out of time or place. The music is sewn of many fabrics, tethered by traditions spanning varied histories. A sinusoidal trek through a continuum of sprawling, int
Brodie West & Fleshtone Aura: The Wavelength Interview
June 22, 2015Purveyors of: Free-form jazz paired with seasonal electronic weirdness. File Next To: Getatchew Mekuria, Sun Ra, Joe McPhee Playing: WL670 Tuesday, June 23rd at Hard Luck Bar (opening for The Ex) Toronto improv mainstays Brodie West and Fleshtone Aura (né: Andrew Zukerman) hop on stages across our city periodically, excising ideas and illusions through their shared spirit of collaborations.
Champion Lover: The Wavelength Interview
June 21, 2015Purveyors of: Lumbering post-punk jams that move from drone to musical assault File Next To: METZ, Odonis Odonis, Cloud Nothings, Mexican Slang, Sonic Youth Playing: Wavelength NXNE Showcase, Sunday June 21 @ Smiling Buddha (8pm) Composed of twins Edward (vocals & guitar) and William (guitar & occasional vocals), as well as James (bass VI) and Erik (drums), Champion Lover is a noise-p
The Ex: The Wavelength Interview
June 19, 2015Purveyors of: Avant-garde, transcultural punk explorations. File Next To: Getatchew Mekuria, The Mekons, Instant Composers Pool Playing: Wavelength 670, Tuesday June 23 @ Hard Luck Bar with Swedish azz feat. Mats Gustafsson, Brodie West & Fleshtone Aura Founded in the why-not-us spirit of punk’s first wave, The Ex have evolved/endured/mutated to this day, their music incorporating idioms
Not Of: The Wavelength Interview
June 12, 2015Purveyors of: Heavy, layered noise rock that never slows down. File next to: METZ, Death From Above 1979, Odonis Odonis, Drive Like Jehu. Playing: Wavelength’s NXNE showcase, Sunday June 21 at Smiling Buddha (961 College St.). Not Of is the project of two prominent Toronto musicians under secret aliases. John Ex (guitar, vocals) and Jason Seance (drums, vocals, synths) may only be two peopl