Purveyors of: Chirpy, well-mannered indie rock that gets slightly weird at times. File next to: My Morning Jacket, the lighter moments of Deerhunter, the darker moments of the New Pornographers Playing: #WL15 Night 1, Friday Feb. 13 at Sneaky Dee’s Toronto’s Delta Will are no strangers to Wavelength fans (or Wavelength websites), but their upcoming #WL15 appearance will put a fresh spin on so
Introducing the Wavelength Pop Up Gallery!!
January 8, 2015Wavelength Pop-Up Gallery January 22 to February 15, 2015 Huntclub Studios, 709 College St. #WL15 Wavelength takes over emerging artist gallery Huntclub Studios from January 22 to February 15, 2015 to create the Wavelength Pop-Up Gallery, a temporary community hub for independent music and arts in Toronto. Located on College Street in Little Italy, this unique storefront space is a blink-if-
100 Essential Canadian Songs from 2014
December 9, 2014A strange thing I noticed this year is that I almost expressly listen to Canadian music now. Piles and piles of new cassettes from all corners of the country containing anything from the sweetest ambience to the harshest noise. Canada is ripe with nascent and quickly growing talent, all rooted in bubbling scenes that have multitudes of tendrils that spread and reach far. I do know too that there a
The Polar Sea premieres tonight on TVO. Score by members of Do Make Say Think!
December 1, 2014Starting tonight (Monday, Dec. 1st at 9PM) and running from the next 10 weeknights on TVO, The Polar Sea is one of the most exciting new shows for fans of arts and science. This visual journey through the Northwest Passage, across Arctic sea ice and tundra, depicts the impact climate change is already making upon the natural world. It’s also especially of interest to Toronto music fans as well, as
Most People are Halifax Bound – Wavelength & Twin Shadow Double-Header!
October 20, 2014Our pals Most People are heading east this weekend – making the drive all the way to the coast to participate in Wavelength’s first-ever Halifax Pop Explosion showcase! The long-running festival is one of the Canadian indie nation’s best annual parties, and we are very excited to participate. Toronto has seen Most People mesmerize audiences everywhere from Feast in the East to Silent Shout to Wave
Fantasy TTC map's stations renamed after famous Toronto songs
October 5, 2014Have a gander at this Dream Soundtrack TTC Map, created by Toronto’s Undercover Music Mayor, Lonely Vagabond! The Vagabond himself says Do Make Say Think would be heard at Bathurst station, in honour of Wavelength and our original haunts, Ted’s Wrecking Yard and Sneaky Dee’s. (We are chuffed to be associated with the delicious aroma of Jamaican patties!) Dig into the map for more psychogeograph
2014 Polaris Prize Short List Announced
July 16, 2014The 2014 Polaris Music Prize short list has been announced and our hearts are pretty happy to see three Wavelength alumni make the list: YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, Owen Pallett and Timber Timbre!! Congratulations!! The full list of finalists for this year’s Polaris Prize are: Arcade Fire — Reflektor Basia Bulat — Tall Tall Shadow Mac DeMarco — Salad Days Drake — Nothing Was The Sam
A Message to Toronto from The Blow…
March 3, 2014Dear Toronnnnnnto…. ALL CAPS! 2013 performers The Blow have a message for you…. and they need your help! “The Blow is coming back to Toronto. We’re playing March 23rd at The Garrison. We want to put up a special poster for the show, like a little love note to the city for all the magical nights we’ve had with Toronto over the years. Remember that time everyone was rolling around on the floo
#WL14 Home Stretch! Sonic Boom and Garrison Sunday
February 16, 2014Holeeeee….! Can you believe Day 4 is upon us already? It’s been an incredible whirlwind of a musical weekend so far, and it’s hard to fathom we’re in the home stretch already. Thanks to everyone who has played, projected and participated at #WL14 so far. Today we have two shows – at 3pm at Sonic Boom Music (Bathurst & Bloor location), we’re hosting an event called “The Toronto Music Momen
#WL14 Friday Update: Marnie Stern Cancelled
February 14, 2014Line-up change for tonight’s show: Marnie Stern Cancelled / DIANA & Odonis Odonis Now Top the Bill / Most People Added Unfortunately, due to the thousands of flight cancellations caused by the US snowstorm, Marnie Stern is unable to perform tonight at Adelaide Hall. DIANA will now headline Friday night, and Wavelength Artist Incubator band Most People have been added to the bill. Upd
Marnie Stern – The WL14 Wavelog
February 7, 2014Purveyors of: Indie-prog noise-rock File next to: Lightning Bolt, Deerhoof, Don Caballero Playing #WL14 Friday, February 14 @ Adelaide Music Hall Marnie Stern is blog-approved. After four celebrated albums, many of which have ended up on their fair share of year-end lists, she is well on her way to becoming a household name. With a personality that screams out as loud as the guitar sh
#WL14: New artists announced & poster unveiled!
January 14, 2014Biblical, Ark Analog, Alden Penner, DJ ZOJO (Diamond Rings), Mexican Slang added to February festival line-up! Five new artists have been added to the stacked line-up for the 14th Wavelength Music Festival running from February 13 to 16, 2014 in downtown Toronto: On Thursday, February 13, Montreal’s Alden Penner (The Unicorns, Clues) is at the Silver Dollar. Diamond Rings’ takes to the decks as D
100 Essential Canadian Songs From 2013
December 9, 2013Two thousand thirteen. What a glorious chunk o’ months it’s been. For many things — and for Canadian music. It’s bubbling up in all places across our vast geography, poking out like soft green growth from fertile soil. The vines are climbing, the blossoms blooming. Genres dissolving, DNA combining to create curious, warped beauty speckled recklessly across the spectrum of dark sludge to
A Great Big Heartfelt Thank You!
August 15, 2013We’re slowly coming back around to normalcy, and we just wanted to thank everyone for making the Final ALL CAPS! Island Festival such an incredible experience. Thank you first and foremost to our audience. You were so respectful of the centre and the island. Cleanup was a breeze, and our security guards commented on what a chilled out time it was for them. You played ping pong, you swung in t
ALL CAPS! Artist Residency Program
July 30, 2013Visual art is a big part of the ALL CAPS! Island Festival, and for this August’s fifth and final edition, we have something very special in the works. Our art program is going to be created in-house through a residency program currently taking place at our wonderful festival site, Artscape Gibraltar Point. Curators/organizers Vanessa Rieger and Jessica Vallentin are working with longtime ALL CAPS!
We’re proud to unveil the awesome poster design for our upcoming Wavelength Music Festival THIRTEEN (a.k.a. #WL13) by our resident designer, Derek Ma! While you gaze upon its magnificence, don’t forget that tickets are now on sale at Ticketfly, Soundscapes and Rotate This.
Diorama? Diorama. Diorama?? DIORAMA. Diorama???? DIORAMA!!!!!!!!! That’s right. Diorama. Just take a look at this INSANELY AWESOME poster for ALL CAPS! 2012 by the one and only Derek Ma. Proof that the only art form that matters is: Diorama. * Posters will be for sale at the festival, and the DIORAMA itself will be on display!
ALL CAPS! Musical! Line-up! Announced!
July 5, 2012The wait is over. The musical line-up at the 2012 ALL CAPS! Island Festival is now public domain! We’re thrilled to share the line-up with you, as well as announced our IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign and the release of our new trailer video. Tickets go on sale next week – but IndieGogo supporters have first crack at camping & festival passes! For complete festivals details, go here.
An Evening with Dusty: The Ambient Sci-Fi Mysteries of Kyle Bobby Dunn
June 7, 2012Good evening, folks. If you’re having a quiet evening in, we highly recommend you take the time to check out Kyle Bobby Dunn’s video for “An Evening with Dusty.” We’re not entirely sure what is happening – from the amazing opening shots of a comet-like object in the sky over a New Zealand beach onwards – but the freckled tomboy protagonist appears to receive and return a message from the beyond. A
By now I’m sure many of you have seen or heard that this year’s Coachella featured a hologram performance of Tupac. Not by Tupac, of course, but of Tupac. With Snoop. It was weird. Hologram performances aren’t technically new; there’s a CGI hologram popstar in Japan named Hatsune Miku, which started out as a way to promote vocal software and grew into a fully synthesized recording “artist” which t