North Atlantic Drift: The Wavelength Interview
March 25, 2016Purveyors of: Oceanic ebb and flow of such scale that only attentive ears may hear. File next to: Northumbria, Chasing Dreams, Dirty Inputs Playing:Â Wavelength’s “Don’t Speak” Friday, March 25th at Array Space. Limited number of tickets at the door for each! North Atlantic Drift is the collaborative effort of Toronto’s Mike Abercrombie and Brad Deschamps, whose music is a monumental, cycli
Moon King: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 22, 2015Purveyors of: Sophisticated cocktail music for people who are just as happy drinking beer. File next to: Cocteau Twins, Stereolab, Beach House Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! It’s a bold statement given that the year isn’t over yet, but I think Toronto’s Moon King have written the album of the year. With Secret Life, thereâ€
Prince Rama: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 21, 2015Purveyors of: Psychedelic tarot moon tunes. File next to: Petra Glynt, Gang Gang Dance, Geneva Jacuzzi Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Brooklynites Prince Rama are a set of sisters curling up out of the world of bizarro electronic now-age. Rooted in the occult and odd, they bring a huge sound and serious fun. Taraka Larson answe
Zoo Owl: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 21, 2015Purveyors of: Smart, snappy electro-pop that’s infectious — but not in a clinical way. File next to: Dan Deacon, Doldrums, Pan Sonic, Orbital Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night!!) at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Toronto’s Bryan Sutherland has been gigging around our city as Zoo Owl for a few years
Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 20, 2015Purveyors of: Intricate, unique sound achieved through samples and instrumental layers as a nod to ’60s pop arrangements. File next to: Fly Pan Am, The Redneck Manifesto, the Hotel2Tango recording studio Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday, August 30 at Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! After almost three years perfecting their sound in the Montreal music scene, Avec le soleil so
LIDS: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 19, 2015Purveyors of: Dreamily layered noise rock, with hypnotizing, crushing beats backed by haunting vocals. File next to: Holy Fuck, Metz, Constantines, Odonis Odonis, The Prairie Cartel Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! It wouldn’t be surprising if your first reaction to someone describing LIDS was “How does that work?” followed by bein
Slow Down Molasses: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 18, 2015Purveyors of: Uniquely Canadian indie-rock with echo-y vocals and a consistently positive vibe. File next to: Sonic Youth, Amos the Transparent, Highs, Catfish and the Bottlemen Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! Hailing from Saskatoon, Slow Down Molasses brings their complex vocal harmonies and layered instrumental works to Waveleng
Mar Aberto SoundSystem: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 17, 2015Purveyors of: Afro-Brazilian-rhythmically-based dub-reggae-cumbia-down-and-dirty-funk-and-then-some. In short: A good time. File next to: The Meters, the Skatalites, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Manu Chao, Jimmy Cliff, King Tubby, Abyssinians, Luiz Gonzaga, MAKU Soundsystem and more. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 (Late Night Set) at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island)Â Get you
The Weather Station: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 23, 2015Purveyors of: Portraits of moments — of stillness and space, and of relationships and roads traveled. File next to: Will Oldham, Bahamas, Joni Mitchell Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island) Get your ticket here! “…for the most commonplace event to become an adventure, you must — and this is all that is necessary — start recounting it.
The Wooden Sky: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 24, 2015Purveyors of: Tunes for adventures through the wilderness (both natural and man-made). Ideal or dusk and dawn. File next to: Yukon Blonde, Wilco, Fleet Foxes Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Get your ticket here! The record store is a special type of haven. It’s one of found gems, first listens, and decades upon decades of musi
Pierre Kwenders: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 24, 2015Purveyor of: Addictive Afro-hip-hop-pop, coloured by plenty of great featured artists. File next to: Radio Radio, Cheza, African Guitar Summit. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! As Wavelog readers and indie music enthusiasts, we’re not easily impressed by accolades. But Pierre Kwenders has gained some pretty impressive momentum rece
JOYFULTALK: The Wavelength Interview
August 12, 2015Purveyors of: Squint and plop school of electronic composition File Next To: The Books, Morton Subotnik, Aphex Twin Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! JOYFULTALK is the complex and intricate work of electronic composer Jay Crocker. The sounds range from eclectic sound-collage to subtly dancey bricolage. An avid user of analog synthesiz
Doomsquad: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 25, 2015Purveyors of: House music, but the house is in the woods, and the call is coming from inside the house. File next to: Fever Ray, Liars, Balam Acab Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! Doomsquad make freaky forest music that worms its way into your psyche. It is unsettling, hypnotic, and a delightful contrast from the faux-folk we’ve
Dirty Frigs: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 11, 2015Purveyors of: Creepy, droning garage rock, layered with fuzz and topped with bright, catchy vocals. File Next To: Ty Segall, Crosss, Link Wray, Mexican Slang, Scratch Acid, early Wavves, King Tuff. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! It’s hard to describe the sound of Dirty Frigs, a Toronto band made up of Bria Salmena (vocals and guita
RAVETAPES: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyors of: Live DJ mixing, nonstop bass-heavy, synth-bumping, reverbed-out vocal style EDM party jams that just don’t quit. File next to: Orbital, Sasha and Digweed, Basement Jaxx Playing next: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Party!) @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Brandon DeGroote and Mike Pereir
Doldrums: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyors of: Collage pop, Sub Pop, dark electronic dance music. File next to: Grimes, Animal Collective, East India Youth Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! In an interview, Jim Morrison of The Doors envisioned that music in the future would consist of a one-person setup with electronics and machines: singing, speaking, and creating.
Allegories: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 7, 2015Purveyors of: Cavernous pop songs and intrigue. File Next To: Big Black, Washed Out, a happy nap. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Set!) at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Allegories are a guild of shadowy figures that emerge occasionally from behind the veil of the Internet to woo audiences with the
Loscil: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyor of: Submerged, icy, low-end ambience, minimal techno and drone. File next to: Tim Hecker, Tycho, Stars of the Lid Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Synonymous with the element of water as it is with isolation, Scott Morgan’s deep, desolate soundwork as Loscil provides an almost too-perfect complement to the setting for the i
Kurt Marble: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 6, 2015Purveyors of: Fuzzed out, throwback garage glam rock with heavy pop hooks. File next to: Ty Segall, T-Rex, King Tuff Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Get your tickets here! Fathers! Lock up your daughters, and sons, because we’re all at risk from being infected with Kurt Marble’s STDs. That’s Sonically Transmitted Ditties. Sympto
Kidstreet: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 5, 2015Purveyors of: Smart, snappy electro-pop that’s infectious — but not in a clinical way File Next To: Esthero, Martha + the Muffins, Robyn Playing: Camp Wavelength (Late Night* Set!!) Saturday, August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your tickets here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Kidstreet have been M.I.A. for a few years, but Camp Wavelength will mark the return