Creep Highway: The Wavelength Interview
January 24, 2015Purveyors of: Barebone post-hardcore, spit in your face family fun. File Next To: White Ribs, heavy Nirvana, Frog Eyes Playing: January 24 @ Junction City Music Hall Bark, bellow, bluster, clamour, holler, howl, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, vociferate, yowl. All of these verbs and more can be found in the (insert aggre
Hervana: The Wavelength Interview
January 21, 2015Purveyors of: Modern, all-girl takes on rock classics that would make Kathleen Hanna proud. File next to: Vag Halen, Sheezer, Nirvana, the Constantines, the Breeders, Blue Cougars Playing: #WL15 Night 1, Friday Feb. 13 at Sneaky Dee’s Hervana is an all-girl Nirvana tribute band from Toronto. After someone tweeted that a band with this name need to be formed, the members took it upon themsel
Mimico: The Wavelength Interview
January 11, 2015Purveyors of: Spacey, synthy, psychedelic explorations drenched in fuzz and reverb. File next to: Spaceman 3, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Wendy Carlos Playing: WL 630 (The Class of 2015) Saturday Jan. 10 @ The Silver Dollar AND our 8 Fest co-presentation Saturday Jan. 31 @ Polish Combatants Hall. Mimico build their music along minimal synth riffs and rhythms that extend beyond the vanishin
Calvin Love: The Wavelength Interview
January 9, 2015Purveyor of: Memories of your first date’s endearing, only slightly nervous wrapping of their arm around your shoulder in the movie theatre. File Next To: Halfway between Mac DeMarco and The War on Drugs, and a few vinyl over from The Drums. Dusk settles over the city. A lone man in black sits in a diner staring out the window. His ignored cigarette’s smoke dances through the air as he watch
The Dark Plains: The Wavelength Interview
December 6, 2014The Dark Plains is a new band featuring Matt Deline and Andy Cant, formerly of Shotmaker and Okara, respectively, amongst numerous other great bands from the Ottawa scene. Having such influential figures in punk/hardcore – not just in Canada, but worldwide – unveil a new project is a momentous occasion indeed. They play tonight (Dec. 6) at Soybomb, and we got Soy-boss Jason Wydra to reach out to
Toronto Homicide Squad: The Wavelength Interview
December 5, 2014Purveyors of: Dark minimalism and calculated brute force. File next to: Anagram, Death From Above, Scratch Acid. Next show: Dec 6, 2014 at Soybomb An interesting thing happens when Googling the band Toronto Homicide Squad; after a few solid links in a row to their works and reviews, past show notices are broken up by headlines like “Homicide Squad investigate weekend shooting,” “Three fou
Hiera: The Wavelength Interview
December 2, 2014Sounds like: More than two guys in a garage going apeshit File next to: Shotmaker, Unwound, Mach Tiver Playing: WL629 Saturday, December 6th @ Soybomb Hiera are a two piece raucous guitar and drums duo, featuring Adam Goodwin (guitars/vocals) and Scott Sjoholm (drums/sleeved shirts). They make their Wavelength debut as part of WL629 on December 6th. We caught up with Adam while the band were do
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