Interviews

Several Futures: The Wavelength Interview

Several Futures: The Wavelength Interview

September 26, 2014

File 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

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Lee Paradise: The Wavelength Interview

Lee Paradise: The Wavelength Interview

September 24, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Bernice: The Wavelength Interview (POP Montreal Edition)

Bernice: The Wavelength Interview (POP Montreal Edition)

September 19, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Bernice: The Wavelength Interview

Bernice: The Wavelength Interview

September 19, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Animal Faces: The Wavelength Interview

Animal Faces: The Wavelength Interview

September 13, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Zords: The Wavelength Interview

Zords: The Wavelength Interview

September 13, 2014

Purveyors 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

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ctznshp: The Wavelength Interview

ctznshp: The Wavelength Interview

September 12, 2014

Purveyors 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

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WHIMM: The Wavelength Interview

WHIMM: The Wavelength Interview

September 11, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Freelove Fenner: The Wavelength Interview

Freelove Fenner: The Wavelength Interview

August 20, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Hiawatha: The Wavelength Interview

Hiawatha: The Wavelength Interview

August 16, 2014

Purveyors 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

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Delta Will: The Wavelength Interview

Delta Will: The Wavelength Interview

August 15, 2014

Purveyors 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

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JFM: The Wavelength Interview

JFM: The Wavelength Interview

August 14, 2014

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

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Alpha Strategy: The Wavelength Interview

Alpha Strategy: The Wavelength Interview

August 13, 2014

Purveyors of:Your next journey through Wonderland, lost and twisting in the deep dark woods. File Next To:Zack Kouns, Big Black, Swans Playing: WL 611 a.k.a. “Wavelength’s Endless Summer,” Saturday August 16 at the Vintage & Flea Market (1251 Dundas St. W.) Alpha Strategy is a band that celebrates all things weird and strange. Emerging as an independent project of Rory Hinchey, the

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Comet Control: The Wavelength Interview

Comet Control: The Wavelength Interview

August 12, 2014

Purveyors of: Shoegaze/sludge evolving cosmically and projecting outwards towards the Oort cloud. File Next To: Quest For Fire, Biblical, Black Mountain Playing: WL 611 a.k.a. “Wavelength’s Endless Summer,” Saturday, August 16 at the Vintage & Flea Market (1251 Dundas St. W) Since his days in The Deadly Snakes, Chad Ross has been a prominent member of Toronto’s independent music fir

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New Horizzzons: The Wavelength Interview

New Horizzzons: The Wavelength Interview

August 16, 2014

Purveyors of: Scarf rock, incense and fuzzy doom glitter. File Next To: Arrington de Dionyso, Pussy Galore, Flaming Lips, Black Sabbath, Tranz DéFoncé Playing: WL 611 a.k.a. “Wavelength’s Endless Summer,” Saturday August 16 at the Vintage & Flea Market, 1251 Dundas St. W. New Horizzzons are Robert Dayton (Canned Hamm, The Canadian Romantic, July Fourth Toilet), Craig Daniels (Leathe

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Black Walls: The Wavelength Interview

Black Walls: The Wavelength Interview

July 23, 2014

Purveyors of: Post-rock that doesn’t rock, swapping riffage for mood-enhancing drones and general thought-provoking nothingness (and awesomeness) File next to: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Acid Mothers Temple, the most bleak moments of the Spiritualized discography Playing: WL 607, Thursday July 24 at the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton Street) Black Walls is Ken Reaume and Ken Reaume

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Kira May: The Wavelength Interview

Kira May: The Wavelength Interview

July 21, 2014

Purveyor of: Electronic, vocal-looped nocturnes populated by visions, ghosts, body parts, and wolves. File next to: Kate Bush, Bjork, PJ Harvey, James Blake, and Mike Patton Playing: WL 607 this Thursday July 24 at the Monarch Tavern with Nat Baldwin and Black Walls. The music of Kira May broods like a low-hanging fog diffusing moonlight. The versatility of her alto is nothing short of remark

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Dirty Inputs: The Wavelength Interview

Dirty Inputs: The Wavelength Interview

July 17, 2014

Purveyors of: Moody soundscapes that are perfect backdrops for studying and/or deep contemplation/zoning out File next to: Pole, Clams Casino, Mogwai Playing: WL 606, Friday July 18 at 8-11 (Backyard of 233 Spadina Ave.) Aaron Dawson is a dude, and Dirty Inputs is his one-man moniker. A former member of Toronto ambient drone collective Off The International Radar, Aaron is a small town Alberta

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Thom Huhtala: The Wavelength Interview

Thom Huhtala: The Wavelength Interview

July 16, 2014

Purveyor of:Music to take drugs to make music to; drone zone folk rock for surfing on the northern lights File Next To:Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, Neil Young, Guided by Voices, Grouper, Neutral Milk Hotel Bad River front man and Tess Parks collaborator, Toronto’s Thom Huhtala writes and records songs the way ketamine hides the secrets of the universe at the bottom of the K-hole. It’s a jou

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Khôra: The Wavelength Interview

Khôra: The Wavelength Interview

July 18, 2014

Purveyors of: Drifting forms and formlessness File next to: Nick Storring, Tim Hecker, Plato’s Timaeus Playing: WL606: Khôra + Dirty Inputs + Thom Huhtala @ 8-11 Matthew Ramolo has been releasing albums as Khôra since 2006, including his Silent Your Body is Endless, which was re-issued as part of the first volume of Constellation Records’ Musique Fragile series. Taking his name from an untr

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