Alex Lukashevsky is an old hand at this Wavelength thing. He’s been in and out with a bunch of different groups (perhaps you’ve heard of Deep Dark United?). This time he’ll shed his accompaniment and bare his soul to Wavelength’s loving audience. But first, he practiced on Allana Mayer. What does your mother have to say about this silly music thing you’re doing? Have you brought shame upon the
Hamilton, oh, Hamilton. Some have called it the Detroit of Canada, some have called it the next Flint, Michigan. And yet the city has seen a musical resurgence lately. Some label Hamilton as a hardcore or metal town, but Alive and Living is something very different. It suggests a softer, kinder side to the steel city. Ryan McLaren and Chris Bell talked about living in Hamilton, and a little about
by Ryan McLaren Happy 2006! I’ve been thinking about the coming year for a while now. 2005 held some drastic life changes for me, especially in terms of my involvement with Wavelength and the music community in Toronto, and I’ve been thinking long and hard about what 2006 is going to hold. There are a lot of issues facing our community right now. I think it’s time we took stock of what we ha
Watching an AIDS Wolf show is like getting beaten up by your girlfriend in front of a large crowd. It’s full of malice and unhinged aggression. And afterwards you’re left completely brutalized and vulnerable, but also kind of relieved. In addition to running the wildly creative poster house Seripop, Montreal’s AIDS Wolf is set to terrorize the world with their distinct brand of noise rock. Mike Pe
Hey, remember when you were nine and it was your birthday and you ripped apart the wrapping on the biggest present with feverishly trembling fingers, only to discover that it was just a shitty Casio keyboard from your parents? You would eventually absent-mindedly toywith it for an hour or two over the next weekend, but it would invariably end up buried under Turtles action figures and tackily desi
by Kate Carraway Best known as a beat-keeper for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Aidan Girt is keeping busy during the band’s extended holiday with a load of musical undertakings, performing at Wavelength both as 1-Speed Bike and as part of Exhaust), keeping up with politics and pop culture, and employing a great deal of ellipses. Kate Carraway waited patiently for his e-mail and then got really d
Wavelength made a mistake this month. We sent rookie reporter Trevor Coleman into an interview with Action Makes unprepared. “Look,” we should have said to him, “These guys are experienced rock stars. They’ve played with bands like The Constantines and The Organ. They’ve played in the biggest clubs in Toronto and Montreal! They’ll chew you up and spit you out like a piece of tendon from their Swis