The Acorn: The Wavelength Interview
February 9, 2015Purveyors of: Vivid stories and airy melodies. All the space in the world, and none. File next to: Ohbijou, Plants and Animals, The Wooden Sky Playing: #WL15 Night Two (Sat. Feb. 14) at Polish Combatants Hall. I remember 2004 in a blur. It was a year of transition, early into my bachelor’s degree at Carleton University and my life was a mess of books, parties, essays, concerts, and ra
Laura Barrett: The Wavelength Interview
February 8, 2015Purveyor of: Pure pop for the authentically nerdy. File next to: The Hidden Cameras, Joanna Newsom, Sheezer, Billie Holliday, The Magnetic Fields, “Weird” Al Yankovic Playing: WL15 Night 1, Friday Feb. 13 at Sneaky Dee’s With her kalimba thumb piano and charming stage presence, Laura Barrett was one of the poster children of the short-lived, woefully misunderstood “Torontopia” movemen
Cellphone: Wavelength Interview Part II
February 6, 2015Purveyors of: Fuzzy, scuzzy, vocally maniacal punk-laced synth thrash. File next to: Magazine, Weird Womb, Obliterations Playing: WL15 Night 3 – Sunday Feb. 15 @ The Garrison (2AM set!) This time last year, Cellphone were getting ready to play a Wavelength show at Smiling Buddha. Back then, Mike Wirth Broth took the time to talkwith Cam Gordon and discuss about their upcoming album release. F
Tenderness: The Wavelength Interview
January 30, 2015Purveyor of: Devotional noise-collage dance grooves. File Next To: Omar Souleyman, U.S. Girls, Dorothy Day Playing: #WL15 Night 3, Sunday Feb. 15 at The Garrison Chrissy Reichert leavens her dance grooves with just enough sonic clatter to force you to take notice, but not so much you’d stop dancing. The Axe is Ready at the Tree, her first album as Tenderness, was a highlight of 2012, but the wa
Last Ex: The Wavelength Interview
January 30, 2015Purveyors of: Eerie reverb haunting atmospheric melodies; the soundtrack to a dark sci-fi/horror film. File Next To: Timber Timbre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, Tortoise Playing: Night 2 of WL15, Saturday Feb. 14 at Polish Combatants Hall. Simon Trottier and Olivier Fairfield are Last Ex. The group was born from a project by their mother band, Timber Timbre, who had been ap
Art Bergmann: The Wavelength Interview
February 9, 2015Purveyor of: Gritty rock with piercingly honest, politically charged lyrics. File next to: Neil Young, Lou Reed, Ron Hawkins Playing: Wavelength Music Festival 15 – Night 1: Friday February 13 @ Sneaky Dee’s – PLUS a free Artist Talk with Art, Saturday February 14, 3:00PM at the Wavelength Pop-Up Gallery @ Huntclub Studio, 709 College St. I recently realized that one of my favourite qualities i
Bart: The Wavelength Interview
January 28, 2015Purveyors of: Angular yet somehow dreamy progressive psych rock nuggets that provoke and confound with a sense of mischievousness not far removed from their jaundiced namesake. File next to: Deerhoof, Yes, Tame Impala Playing: #WL15 Night 3, Sunday Feb. 15 at The Garrison Emerging out of the joint union between members of The Elwins and Ruby Coast, Bart were initially a primarily studio based
The Flu: The Wavelength Interview
January 24, 2015Purveyors of: Germs. File next to: Soupcans, Ty Segall, Astral Gunk, Germs Playing: Saturday, January 24 @ Junction City Music Hall Hoo doggy, here comes The Flu. Toronto lunk-head punks bringing the maniac jams, jacked up on cocoa puffs and paint huff. Look out for the dropping anvil! The Flu spoke to Wavelength’s Adam Bradley to tell him about blackmail collecting, the space-time continuum
Creep Highway: The Wavelength Interview
January 24, 2015Purveyors of: Barebone post-hardcore, spit in your face family fun. File Next To: White Ribs, heavy Nirvana, Frog Eyes Playing: January 24 @ Junction City Music Hall Bark, bellow, bluster, clamour, holler, howl, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, vociferate, yowl. All of these verbs and more can be found in the (insert aggre
Hervana: The Wavelength Interview
January 21, 2015Purveyors of: Modern, all-girl takes on rock classics that would make Kathleen Hanna proud. File next to: Vag Halen, Sheezer, Nirvana, the Constantines, the Breeders, Blue Cougars Playing: #WL15 Night 1, Friday Feb. 13 at Sneaky Dee’s Hervana is an all-girl Nirvana tribute band from Toronto. After someone tweeted that a band with this name need to be formed, the members took it upon themsel
Mimico: The Wavelength Interview
January 11, 2015Purveyors of: Spacey, synthy, psychedelic explorations drenched in fuzz and reverb. File next to: Spaceman 3, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Wendy Carlos Playing: WL 630 (The Class of 2015) Saturday Jan. 10 @ The Silver Dollar AND our 8 Fest co-presentation Saturday Jan. 31 @ Polish Combatants Hall. Mimico build their music along minimal synth riffs and rhythms that extend beyond the vanishin
Calvin Love: The Wavelength Interview
January 9, 2015Purveyor of: Memories of your first date’s endearing, only slightly nervous wrapping of their arm around your shoulder in the movie theatre. File Next To: Halfway between Mac DeMarco and The War on Drugs, and a few vinyl over from The Drums. Dusk settles over the city. A lone man in black sits in a diner staring out the window. His ignored cigarette’s smoke dances through the air as he watch
The Dark Plains: The Wavelength Interview
December 6, 2014The Dark Plains is a new band featuring Matt Deline and Andy Cant, formerly of Shotmaker and Okara, respectively, amongst numerous other great bands from the Ottawa scene. Having such influential figures in punk/hardcore – not just in Canada, but worldwide – unveil a new project is a momentous occasion indeed. They play tonight (Dec. 6) at Soybomb, and we got Soy-boss Jason Wydra to reach out to
Toronto Homicide Squad: The Wavelength Interview
December 5, 2014Purveyors of: Dark minimalism and calculated brute force. File next to: Anagram, Death From Above, Scratch Acid. Next show: Dec 6, 2014 at Soybomb An interesting thing happens when Googling the band Toronto Homicide Squad; after a few solid links in a row to their works and reviews, past show notices are broken up by headlines like “Homicide Squad investigate weekend shooting,” “Three fou
Hiera: The Wavelength Interview
December 2, 2014Sounds like: More than two guys in a garage going apeshit File next to: Shotmaker, Unwound, Mach Tiver Playing: WL629 Saturday, December 6th @ Soybomb Hiera are a two piece raucous guitar and drums duo, featuring Adam Goodwin (guitars/vocals) and Scott Sjoholm (drums/sleeved shirts). They make their Wavelength debut as part of WL629 on December 6th. We caught up with Adam while the band were do
Watershed Hour: The Wavelength Interview
December 1, 2014Purveyors of: Bass, drums, vocals, attitude. File next to: Death From Above 1979, Queens of the Stone Age, Heart. Playing: Saturday, December 6 at Soybomb I embarrassed myself the first time I saw Watershed Hour. At the final ALL CAPS! festival in 2013, they took the stage and broke my brain. Two seemingly very young people, one (Natalie Resimes) plugging a bass through an assortment of pedals,
WISH: The Wavelength Interview
November 28, 2014Purveyor of: Shoegaze momentum confronting psychedelic langour File next to: Beliefs, Milk Lines, Decades Playing: Friday, November 28 at NICE II @ the Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.) Ever since reaching Toronto from the Niagara region, Kyle Connolly has been busy in several bands, including Beliefs and Milk Lines. He brought some friends from those projects together to a vehicle for his own s
Plumes: The Wavelength Interview
November 28, 2014Purveyors of: Haunting orchestral meditations coupled with pop-savvy inventiveness, lovingly crafted earworms abound. File Next to: Sufjan Stevens, Art Zoyd, Belle and Sebastian Playing: WL 628 aka NICE II – Friday Nov. 28 at The Garrison Plumes are an off-kilter baroque pop ensemble that skirts the line between cerebral progressive rock and meditative chamber music, resulting in sombre, herc
Plumes: The Wavelength Interview
November 26, 2014Purveyors of: Haunting orchestral meditations coupled with pop-savvy inventiveness, lovingly crafted earworms abound. File Next to: Sufjan Stevens, Art Zoyd, Belle and Sebastian Playing: WL 628 aka NICE II – Friday Nov. 28 at The Garrison Plumes are an off-kilter baroque pop ensemble that skirts the line between cerebral progressive rock and meditative chamber music, resulting in sombre, he
Animalia: The Wavelength Interview
November 7, 2014Purveyor of: Howling, explosive vocals coupled with electronic beats File next to: Bjork, Portishead, Amanda Palmer Playing: Saturday November 8 at Geary Lane It takes a brave person to start a life in a different hemisphere, especially a career in music. But that’s exactly what Australian artist Jill Krasnicki did when she moved to Toronto and began her solo project, Animalia. Animalia has s