Watershed Hour: The Wavelength Interview
December 1, 2014Purveyors of: Bass, drums, vocals, attitude. File next to: Death From Above 1979, Queens of the Stone Age, Heart. Playing: Saturday, December 6 at Soybomb I embarrassed myself the first time I saw Watershed Hour. At the final ALL CAPS! festival in 2013, they took the stage and broke my brain. Two seemingly very young people, one (Natalie Resimes) plugging a bass through an assortment of pedals,
WISH: The Wavelength Interview
November 28, 2014Purveyor of: Shoegaze momentum confronting psychedelic langour File next to: Beliefs, Milk Lines, Decades Playing: Friday, November 28 at NICE II @ the Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.) Ever since reaching Toronto from the Niagara region, Kyle Connolly has been busy in several bands, including Beliefs and Milk Lines. He brought some friends from those projects together to a vehicle for his own s
Plumes: The Wavelength Interview
November 28, 2014Purveyors of: Haunting orchestral meditations coupled with pop-savvy inventiveness, lovingly crafted earworms abound. File Next to: Sufjan Stevens, Art Zoyd, Belle and Sebastian Playing: WL 628 aka NICE II – Friday Nov. 28 at The Garrison Plumes are an off-kilter baroque pop ensemble that skirts the line between cerebral progressive rock and meditative chamber music, resulting in sombre, herc
Plumes: The Wavelength Interview
November 26, 2014Purveyors of: Haunting orchestral meditations coupled with pop-savvy inventiveness, lovingly crafted earworms abound. File Next to: Sufjan Stevens, Art Zoyd, Belle and Sebastian Playing: WL 628 aka NICE II – Friday Nov. 28 at The Garrison Plumes are an off-kilter baroque pop ensemble that skirts the line between cerebral progressive rock and meditative chamber music, resulting in sombre, he
Animalia: The Wavelength Interview
November 7, 2014Purveyor of: Howling, explosive vocals coupled with electronic beats File next to: Bjork, Portishead, Amanda Palmer Playing: Saturday November 8 at Geary Lane It takes a brave person to start a life in a different hemisphere, especially a career in music. But that’s exactly what Australian artist Jill Krasnicki did when she moved to Toronto and began her solo project, Animalia. Animalia has s
Suno Deko: The Wavelength Interview
October 31, 2014Purveyors of: Evocative electro-fused indie rock File next to: Washed Out, Her Space Holiday, the Postal Service Playing: WL 626, Sunday November 2nd at Magpie (831 Dundas Street West) David Courtright hatched his Suno Deko moniker while taking up residence in India. However, it wasn’t until his feet were back on terra firma (well… technically, Atlanta) that he started writing and recording
Kurt Marble: The Wavelength Interview
October 29, 2014Purveyors of: Fuzzed-out, melodic, grungy-glam-rock. File next to: 90’s Canadian Indie-Rock, Flaming Lips, J Mascis, and Lou Barlow. Playing: Sunday Nov. 2 at the Magpie. I’m listening to Kurt Marble’s first three songs released under the package, Demonstrative Extended Play, and I’m awash in déjà vu. I can swear I’ve heard this before. Maybe in a half-remembered dream? Maybe in a p
Jooj: The Wavelength Interview
November 6, 2014Purveyors of: Expressionistic Minimalism, an intimate drama File next to: Xiu Xiu, Laurie Anderson, Suicide, Hedwig (performing as Marlene Dietrich) Playing: WL 627, Saturday November 8th at Geary Lane (360 Geary Ave.) Sook-Yin Lee is a filmmaker, musician, actor, artist, choreographer, and broadcaster. Adam Litovitz is a writer and professor of Film Studies and English. They’ve made music to
Nick Storring: The Wavelength Interview
October 21, 2014Purveyor of: Chamber music, improvisation, pop tunes on cello and beyond File next to: Thin Edge Music Collective, Alice Coltrane, Picastro, Arthur Russell Playing: Friday Oct. 24 at The Garrison for WL624 with Ben Frost A fixture in various and overlapping local music scenes, Nick Storring has created looped cello dance pop, austere textures for Picastro’s sleep rock, and free-ranging improv
Phrase Velocity: The Wavelength Interview
October 16, 2014Purveyors of: Tabla rhythms and analog synth interventions File next to: Autorickshaw, Hoover Party Playing: Friday Oct. 17 at the Music Gallery for the X AVANT Festival Tabla player Ed Hanley (known as a member of Autorickshaw as well as for his own music) is interested both in the history of his instrument and in pushing it forward into new sonic terrains. This show (co-presented as part of
Drums & Drones: The Wavelength Interview
October 15, 2014Purveyors of: The name says it all File next to: La Monte Young, Brian Eno, Tim Hecker Playing: Friday Oct. 17 at the Music Gallery for the X AVANT Festival Brian Chase is likely best known to the music-listening public as the drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the dance-punk trio that came to prominence as part of the “Yes New York” scene circa 2003 – yet he’s also an accomplished and
The Lord Almightys: The Wavelength Interview
October 11, 2014Purveyors of: Dirty, guitar driven garage rock that can conjure unaddressed emotional baggage from past failed relationships. Rock therapy. File next to: The Aardvarks, Moving Sidewalks Fresh as all hell, but definitely no strangers to the Canadian music scene, The Lord Almightys make their Wavelength debut tonight at Handlebar. The music is balanced and tasty, and with all the experience betwee
The Almighty Rhombus: The Wavelength Interview
October 11, 2014Purveyors of: Rollicking indie pop with hooks seemingly lifted from the years between 1989 and 1997. Great stuff!! File next to: Local Rabbits, Tokyo Police Club, the Boo Radleys Playing: WL 622, Saturday October 11 at Handlebar (159 Augusta Avenue) Sudbury tends to be known for large nickels and wolves, but if you peel back the layers, you’ll find a small but dedicated music scene, writing t
Bardos: The Wavelength Interview
October 11, 2014Purveyors of: “FEMALE FRONTED NOISEY PUNK SHIT” (their words) File next to: L7, Patti Smith, Brody Dalle, Sonic Youth Playing next: Saturday, October 11 9:00pm at Handlebar, 159 Augusta Ave., Kensington Market, Toronto. The weather is forecast is clear with a temperature 12°C / 6°C. What a nice night for some music! Google “Bardos Band” and two musical options come up — a “UK-base
The World Provider: The Wavelength Interview
October 10, 2014Purveyors of: Catchy, low fi tracks perfect for your next road trip. Awkward car dancing guaranteed. File next to: The Shins, Guided by Voices Playing: WL 622 – Saturday Oct. 11 at Handlebar It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… The World Provider! A super-heroic music project from Montreal’s Malcolm Fraser. Come for the catchy garage rock beats, stay for the stage theatrics. The World P
Programm: The Wavelength Interview
October 9, 2014File Next To: Ostrich Tuning, The xx, My Bloody Valentine Purveyors Of: Cold-wave shoegaze Last played Wavelength: NXNE Showcase, June 2013 @ Creatures Creating Playing next: Red Bull Sound Select October 9th at The Garrison with Titus Andronicus and Ice Cream Programm are an indeterminate life form, a symbiotic aggregate of independent organisms. They emit strange, echoing sonic reverberation
Ice Cream: The Wavelength Interview
October 8, 2014Purveyors of: Post-Rocky Road, Mint Chocolate Hot Chip File next to: Young Marble Giants, Bush Tetras, The Flying Lizards Playing: WL 621 / Red Bull Sound Select presents: Toronto w/ Titus Andronicus & Programm – Thursday (Oct. 9) at The Garrison It’s been barely a year since Ice Cream dropped “Science” — yeah, I went there — on their Soundcloud page, and since then the Toronto du
Bruce Peninsula: The Wavelength Interview
October 2, 2014Purveyors of: New folk traditions File Next to: Snowblink, Fleetwood Mac, Pentangle, Anthology of American Folk Music Playing next: WL620 @ Polish Combatants’ Hall with Del Bel and Delta Will. Our city was once forests, then fields — all relentlessly chewed up by the living creature of our social fabric. Ravines and parks and other topography remind of of how the land used to look, and if you
Del Bel: The Wavelength Interview
October 1, 2014Purveyors of: A cozy feeling on a cold afternoon. Warm and ghostly tunes with bluesy tones. File Next to: Land of Talk, Eliza Rickman. Playing next: WL620 @ Polish Combatants’ Hall with Bruce Peninsula and Delta Will. Good things are always worth waiting for. It’s been a while, but Del Bel is taking their cinematically inspired sounds to the Wavelength stage once again this Friday. This spraw
Wrong Hole: The Wavelength Interview
September 27, 2014Purveyors of: The sound of a scuzzy cyberpunk club scene as directed by Paul Verhoeven in the early 1990s, duh. File next to: Cro-Mags, Big Black. Wrong Hole are a noisy Toronto 3.5-piece fronted by part-time comedian, full-time lover Nick Flanagan (Brutal Knights), alongside Andrew Gunn (Comet Control / Quest for Fire / Deadly Snakes) and Jon Schouten (Teenanger). Also, a drum machine