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
Shrines: The Wavelength Interview
September 26, 2014File Next To: Red Mass, The Birthday Party, Sonic Youth Purveyors Of: Gutter chunk soup, volume squalls, garage appeal Playing next: WL 619 – Saturday Sept. 27 @ Handlebar with Wrong Hole, Lee Paradise and Several Futures Shrines are a cluster of gangly faded thugs, belching harmonic into the oily night. Mudded-up bass slopped on top of serrated guitar/drum Frankensteinage, with that kinda cymb
Several Futures: The Wavelength Interview
September 26, 2014File Next To: Slint, NoMeansNo, Fugazi Purveyors Of: Tinnitus Playing next: WL 619 – Saturday Sept. 27 @ Handlebar with Wrong Hole, Lee Paradise and Shrines Several Futures are a banged-up jalopy cop car commandeered by strung-out punks on a mission. Rock-crusher cacophony as symphony, clang-bang post-hardcore white-knuckle piston pulverization. Wavelength’s Adam Bradley sat in a cavernous Neut
Lee Paradise: The Wavelength Interview
September 24, 2014Purveyors of: Driving basslines and spooky organs backing up a troubled man. File next to: Freaky Circus, Speed Racer, Dusk Time Playing: WL 619 – Saturday Sept. 27 @ Handlebar Not being fans of boring journalistic objectivity, Wavelength asked April Aliermo to interview her Hooded Fang/Phèdre/Tonkapuma bandmate Dan Lee about his new solo-ish project, Lee Paradise. Take it away, April…. I
Bernice: The Wavelength Interview (POP Montreal Edition)
September 19, 2014Purveyors of: Modern soul-hugs and subtle R’n’B caresses File next to: THOMAS, Snowblink, Tropicália Playing next: WL617 Friday Sept. 19 (tonight!) at La Vitrola (POP Montreal) Bernice sees Robin Dann’s songs brought to life by Thom Gill, Colin Fisher, Dan Fortin, Felicity Williams and Phil Melanson — some of Toronto’s most amazing musicians (members of THOMAS, Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Bah
Bernice: The Wavelength Interview
September 19, 2014Purveyors of: Modern soul-hugs and subtle R’n’B caresses File next to: THOMAS, Snowblink, Tropicália Playing next: WL617 Friday Sept. 19 (tonight!) at La Vitrola (POP Montreal) Bernice sees Robin Dann’s songs brought to life by Thom Gill, Colin Fisher, Dan Fortin, Felicity Williams and Phil Melanson — some of Toronto’s most amazing musicians (members of THOMAS, Not The Wind, Not The
Animal Faces: The Wavelength Interview
September 13, 2014Purveyors of: Punchy goddamn guitar music, you know, like they used to make. File next to: Mystery Machine, Yuck, Archers of Loaf. Playing: WL 616 – Saturday Sept. 13 at Smiling Buddha. Toronto’s Animal Faces, comprised of humans with actual human faces, play quick-footed, clever rock’n’roll with the odd nod to the ‘90s. We caught up with bassist Zach Van Horne and tried to bait him
Zords: The Wavelength Interview
September 13, 2014Purveyors of: Synth jams simultaneously doleful and animated, with fetching bass hooks and cherub-like vocals File next to: Wild Nothing, Chromatics, New Order, Cut Copy Playing next: WL616 – Saturday Sept. 13 at Smiling Buddha. Forged in the sine wave, Toronto synth-pop band Zords attempt to make you move your bod while floating through the cosmic delight that is their live performance. With
ctznshp: The Wavelength Interview
September 12, 2014Purveyors of: Emotionally invested pop-rock that’s going to make it impossible for you to stay still. File next to: Mother Mother, Mates of State, Broken Social Scene. Playing: WL 616 – Saturday Sept. 13 at Smiling Buddha. Montreal-based, live-performance-loving band ctznshp is playing this Saturday and you should be there. Not only are the tunes off their newly released album, Doom Love
WHIMM: The Wavelength Interview
September 11, 2014Purveyors of: Gritty rock that ranges from ethereal dream pop jams to rough industrial noise-rock. File Next to: Mexican Slang, WTCHS, Odonis Odonis. Playing: WL 616 – Saturday Sept. 13 at Smiling Buddha. WHIMM is a Toronto based noise-rock band – with hints of drone and pop – that formed recently and put out an EP in February of this year. Now with a new drummer, they’re keeping that up mo
Freelove Fenner: The Wavelength Interview
August 20, 2014Purveyors of: Meticulously-constructed, succinctly-packaged popbursts with a tingly psychedelic aftertaste File Next To: Postcards, Broadcast, A Bell Is A Cup-era Wire Playing: WL 613 – Arboretum Festival: Ought, Fresh Snow, Freelove Fenner & Blue Angel @ House of Targ (Ottawa) Imagine a dream where you found a copy of Thurson Moore’s Psychic Hearts where all the songs were wiry Steely Da
Hiawatha: The Wavelength Interview
August 16, 2014Purveyors of: Electro-psych-noise-trance-pop File Next to:Throbbing Gristle, Night Slugs, Thrush Hermit Hiawatha is the brainchild of electronic artist David Psutka, a.k.a. Egyptrixx. This scrapyard psychedelic blend of modern electronica and industrial music makes for a sound both full and cavernous. His second Egyptrixx release entitled Bible Eyes (Night Slugs) in 2011 was followed with rela
Delta Will: The Wavelength Interview
August 15, 2014Purveyors of: Upbeat, dreamy, sonic experiences with synthesized pop beats, mesmerizing loops and an otherworldliness that avoids the clichés of what one would expect from music written by an alien. Yes, an alien, read on. File next to: the Avalanches, Beck, Owen Pallett/Final Fantasy Playing: WL 611 a.k.a. “Wavelength’s Endless Summer,” Saturday, August 16 at the Vintage & Flea Marke
Purveyor of: Spectral grooves and syncopated echoes from the back alleys of dub city File Next to: XXYXX, Tycho, Four Tet Playing: WL 611 a.k.a. “Wavelength’s Endless Summer,” Saturday August 16 at the Vintage & Flea Market (1251 Dundas St. W.) JFM is Jesse Frank Matthew’s electronic brainchild. JFM conjures up a sonic tapestry of abrupt rhythms and samples, which seem to dr