Man Made Hill: The Wavelength Interview
December 21, 2015Purveyor of: Squishy, squashy existential funk for extra-planetary brain slugs. File next to: The Residents, Orange Milk Records, Barry White Playing: Wavelength New Year’s Eve at Markham House City Building Lab. Get tickets here! The years have witnessed Man Made Hill’s metamorphosis from lo-fi experimental creeper to full-on WWE-LSD nightmare pop dreamboat. His party skills are unmatched
The Holy Gasp: The Wavelength Interview
December 27, 2015Purveyors of: Tom Waits-tinged bebop being played inside a spinning blender. File next to: Love is All, King Khan and the Shrines, The Cramps Playing: Wavelength New Year’s Eve at Markham House City Building Lab. Get tickets here! Catch the Holy Gasp as part of Wavelength’s New Year’s Eve! Also featuring: MATROX, Maylee Todd, Delta Will, Man Made Hill + other sundry items including but no
Maylee Todd: The Wavelength Interview
December 29, 2015Purveyor of: An array of genres, exploring electro this time around. Soulful vocals taking on a haunting yet direct tone with a really good beat. Lyrics that will have you singing along while dancing around the kitchen floor one moment, sobbing over the sink the next. SO REAL. File next to: A lot of the laidback electro of the day, but with much more depth and subtlety. Playing: Wavelength New Y
MATROX: The Wavelength Interview
December 30, 2015Purveyors of: Electro-apocalyptic robotic sounds that can brainwash any audience into enthusiastic dancing. File next to: Kraftwerk, Daft Punk. Playing: Wavelength New Year’s Eve at Markham House City Building Lab (610 Markham St.). You can still pick up advance tickets (in person only) at Rotate This (801 Queen W.), Soundscapes (572 College St.) and Tiny Record Shop (804 Queen E.)! A very lmi
Hush Pup: The Wavelength Interview
May 21, 2015Purveyor of: Breezy and melancholic dream pop that evokes sad summers and late night sorrows but also emanates the comforting warmth of favorite memories. File Next to: Cocteau Twins, Panda Bear, Slowdive, Beach House Playing: Saturday May 23 @ Clay & Paper Theatre Originally hailing from Victoria B.C., Hush Pup has since found a home in Toronto. 2013 found the band releasing the 3 track
Alphabot: The Wavelength Interview
May 16, 2015Purveyor of: Human pop, by and for robots. File next to: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, B.A. Johnston, MATROX Playing: Saturday May 16 @ Handlebar for Wavelength’s May Long Weekend Blowout —& Alphabot’s first Wavelength since WL433 in 2008! I had the opportunity to sit down with Toronto musician/artist/robot Alphabot yesterday. He’s an odd sort who puts out sporadic albums, co
Big Dick: The Wavelength Interview
May 15, 2015Sounds like: Energetic, 90’s-tinged, Albini-flecked power punk. File next to: Wavves, Parts and Labor, Japandroids, Nomeansno Playing: Tonight! @ Handlebar for Wavelength’s May Long Weekend Blowout Big Dick are a punchy punk two-piece from Ottawa, Ontario, whose tight, aggressive and to-the-point songs belie their pleasant dispositions. We caught up with drummer Dave Secretary ahead of th
Merganzer: The Wavelength Interview
February 8, 2016Purveyor of: Classically-infused whimsy. File next to: Soundtrack to your greatest daydreams. Playing: Day Two of WL16, Saturday February 13 (afternoon show) at Markham House: City Building Lab. Get tickets! Drawing on collaborations with the likes of Basia Bulat, Timber Timbre, Broken Social Scene and Feist, Merganzer is the pop electronic brainchild of uber-talented violin virtuo
Duchess Says: The Wavelength Interview
February 8, 2016Purveyors of: Moog rock, post-punk science, and homemade religion. File next to: LCD Soundsystem, Liars, Erase Errata, Les Georges Leningrad Playing: Night Three of WL16, Saturday February 13 at The Garrison. Get tickets! Duchess Says just destroyed the Dominion Tavern in Ottawa for the second edition of the Megaphono Festival, and Wavelength’s Jonny Dovercourt was there to witness it. Th
FOXTROTT: The Wavelength Interview
February 9, 2016Purveyor of: Fierce and unrelenting electro-pop full of sensuously big beats, enticing you into that deep, dark corner of your mind while you bop your heads with your friends. File next to: Björk, The Knife Playing: Day Two of WL16, Friday February 12 at The Garrison. Get tickets! Montreal musician Marie-Hélène Delorme just released her debut LP, A Taller Us, under the moniker FOXTROTT t
She-Devils: The Wavelength Interview
February 10, 2016Purveyors of: Retro pop kitsch. File next to: International ‘60s pop, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra Playing: Night Three of WL16, Sunday February 14 at The Garrison. Get tickets! Montreal-based duo She-Devils utilize premade sounds to create their unique brand of visual music. Audrey Ann’s gifted vocals are the perfect match for Kyle Jukka’s wild selection of samples. Christopher D
Beliefs: The Wavelength Interview
February 11, 2016Purveyors of: Gauzey, guitar-driven dream pop. File next to: My Bloody Valentine, No Joy, Whirr Playing: Night Two of WL16, Saturday February 13 at The Garrison. Get tickets! Toronto’s Beliefs have been at it since 2010 — but this is their year. Beliefs second release, Leaper (Hand Drawn Dracula, 2015) has perked up ears for its unabashed inspiration in ‘90s dream pop and shoegaze, and wi
Foxes in Fiction: The Wavelength Interview
February 12, 2016Purveyor of: Ambient pop, honesty, healing. File next to: Sea Oleena, Fog Lake, The Clientele, Deerhunter Playing: Day Two of WL16, Saturday February 13 at Markham House City Building Lab (afternoon show). Get tickets! Foxes in Fiction are healers. One healer, to be more precise. Started around 2005 by Warren Hildebrand while he was still in high school, the project has made its way from th
Pantayo: The Wavelength Interview
February 13, 2016Purveyors of: An entrancing blend of modern electronica and traditional Filipino kulintang music. File next to: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Nonesuch Records Playing: Day Three of WL16, Sunday February 14 at The Garrison. Get tickets! There is so much amazing music being made by the various cultural communities in the GTA that doesn’t get heard by the rock-dominated mainstream music scene.
The Pucumber Sasssquash Family Band: The Wavelength Interview
May 13, 2015Sounds like: A fire hydrant gushing liquefied kale and tomatoes into the street, but you know, like, a band. File next to: The King Khan & BBQ Show, Jay Reatard, Obits Playing: Friday (May 15) @ Handlebar for Wavelength’s May Long Weekend Blowout The Pucumber Sasssquash Family Band are a six-piece made up of some Hamilton heavy-hitters with members who have been, or are currently, parts
Home Alone: The Wavelength Interview
May 12, 2015Purveyors of: Quiet rooms and unexpected intimacy File next to: Foxes in Fiction, The Reindeer Section, The Real Tuesday Weld Playing: Wavelength’s May Long Weekend Blowout, Saturday May 16 at Handlebar The May Long Weekend is upon us, and with that comes sun, relaxation, perhaps a cottage with a lake, campfires, and lots of intoxicants. No matter how you celebrate the government-mandated L
The Sulks: The Wavelength Interview
May 11, 2015Purveyors of: Classic psychedelic surf-meets-desert rock jams that just keep on rolling. File next to: Fu Manchu, Fresh Snow, Dick Dale, Grounders, Django Reinhardt, Neon Windbreaker, The Cramps Playing: Wavelength’s May Long Weekend Blowout @ Handlebar May 16 Featuring Gypsy jazz guitarist Chris Bezant joined by Evan Lewis of Grounders on guitar, Matthew Somerville Wronski of Neon Windbreake
Marker Starling: The Wavelength Interview
May 8, 2015Purveyor of: Classically-crafted soulful ballads + AM radio gold File next to: The Spinners, The High Llamas, Steely Dan Playing: WL659, Sunday, May 10th at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. Rosy Maze, just out on Tin Angel, is the first album to bear the name “Marker Starling,” but it’s far from a debut. Chris Cummings, the tuxedo-clad man behind the Wurlitzer, released four albums as Mantler,
Memorex: The Wavelength Interview
May 5, 2015Purveyors of: Slightly chilly synth-driven indie File next to: Gary Numan, Trans Am, Joy Division Playing: WL658, Saturday, May 9 at the Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street Memorex are a band out of time. Described (by our website) as “dark-synth monoliths,” Memorex take cues from the last 40 years of electronic music, aligning clattering drum machines with plenty of synth to create tunes t
Battlewülf: The Wavelength Interview
May 4, 2015Purveyors of: Gnarly lo-fi riot grrl with some poppy surf bounce. File Next To: Bikini Kill, Best Coast, Mudhoney, Bad Brains and Ty Segall. Playing: May 15 @ Handlebar Battlewülf is a lo-fi surf punk band started near the beginning of 2014, by vocalist and guitarist Jasmine La Grande Sauterelle, and taking its final shape with Jesse (who goes by Jersee Bollongs on their release) on bass and