Wavelength Interview with Yonatan Gat
August 12, 2019Purveyors of: instrumental guitar rock File next to: Django Reinhart, Biréli Lagrène, Les Paul, and your favourite surf compilation. Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival, Sunday, August 18th at Stackt — 28 Bathurst St. Get tickets here! 2016, Guelph, Ontario, Kazoo! Fest, and a boxing ring. The air was sweaty, and the primary lights were focussing on two musicians
Purveyor of: The melancholy dance-party File next to: Austra, Young Galaxy, Mozart’s Sister, Scott Hardware Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival, Saturday August 17 at Stackt – 28 Bathurst St. Get tickets here! In her own words, Lesley Ann Foster a.k.a. L.A. Foster “makes sad dance music.” In the tradition of Canadian electro-popsters
Purveyors of: Lavender Field Daze Gaze File next to: Alvvays, Tennis, Camera Obscura, Anemone Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival Saturday, August 18th at Stackt. Get Tickets Here! Tallies are a shimmery Toronto four-piece made up of Sarah Cogan, Dyland Frankland, Cian O’Neill, and Stephen Pitman. They’ve brought their reverb-drenched dreams to our ears at the p
Purveyor of: Global conglomerate punk File next to: CPC Gangbangs, The Spits, Uranium Club, Jay Reatard Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival Night Two, Sunday August 18 @ Stackt. Get tickets here! Montreal avant-garage rock collective Red Mass is a gathering of artists, musicians and agent provocateurs from around the globe. The present core of “Red Mass” is comprised of
Cadence Weapon: The WL Interview
August 8, 2019Purveyor Of: The cerebral hip-hop soundtrack for your gamified life. File Next To: Deltron 3030, Kaytranada Playing: Wavelength Summer Music and Arts Festival Night One, Saturday, August 17th @ Stackt. Get tickets here! Cadence Weapon is a pillar of Canadian hip-hop. His 15-year career has produced four full-length albums, three of which have ended up on Polaris Prize lists both long and
Purveyors of: A pioneering Afrofuturistic sound blending traditional, ancestral African sounds from Chad and beyond with state of the art electronic music. File next to: Pierre Kwenders, Mbongwana Star, Daft Punk Playing: AfrotroniX will be headlining Day Two of the Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival on August 18 at Stackt Market in Toronto. CLICK HERE for more details and to buy ti
Purveyor of: hazy R&B and cloud rap File next to: A. Billi Free, Akua Naru, Gavlyn Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival w/ Milk & Bone, Afrotronix, Cadence Weapon, Yonatan Gat and more, August 17 & 18 at Stackt – 28 Bathurst St. Get tickets here! Hua Li is the only half-Chinese, half-militant, half-rapper of your heart. This BC-born, Montreal-residing
Anthems Of The Void: The WL Interview
August 7, 2019Purveyors of: Interstellar avant-garde rock File next to: Broadcast, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Jefferson Airplane, Cocteau Twins (their dark stuff) Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival Night 2, Sunday August 18 @ Stackt. Get tickets here! Spacey vocal soundscapes collide with swells of distorted electric guitar and the unique sound of the one-of-a-kind instrument, the
Purveyor of: Androgynous Glitter Melancholy File next to: Blondie, Siouxie and the Banshees, New Order. Playing: Wavelength Summer Music & Arts Festival Saturday, August 17th at stackt. Get Tickets Here! Art d’ECCO is more than a Bowie throwback. This B.C.-based provocateur is keeping it genre- and gender-fluid. Inspired by isolation, absurdity and his favourite music, the album Tres
Purveyors of: The look of music File next to: Pauline Oliveros and Godspeed You! Black Emperor Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series: “Solstizio,” Friday, June 21st at 918 Bathurst Centre for Arts, Media & Education. Get tickets here! VERSA is its own entity, an organism or an adjective that describes an emotional moment. The closest word in the Oxford Italian-English Diction
Gordon Grdina: The WL Interview
June 18, 2019Purveyor of: Arabic-inspired free-improvisation and chamber-jazz composition File next to: Matthew Shipp, Jerusalem In My Heart Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series: Solstizio, Friday June 21 @ 918 Bathurst. Get tickets here! Gordon Grdina is an incredibly talented guitarist/oud player and composer/improviser as well as a beautiful human being. Inspired by free jazz, heavy metal, Arab
Anastasia Minster: The WL Interview
June 18, 2019Purveyor of: Dark chamber jazz-pop File next to: iamthemorning, Esben and the Witch, Marissa Nadler, Chelsea Wolfe Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series: “Solstizio,” Friday June 21 at 918 Bathurst. Get tickets here! Anastasia Minster is a Moscow-born artist who has seeped deeply into the Toronto music scene over the past half-decade. She has made an impact on music lovers far and
Purveyors of: Tasty angst-filled daydreams for your ears. File Next to: Alvvays, Soccer Mommy, Snail Mail. Playing: Sunday May 19th @ Arraymusic with Mary Ocher + Your Government and Lake Versions. Get Tickets Here! Indie-rock group ROACH is invading the Toronto music scene! Although they haven’t been a band for long, they’ve already found a unique voice. Their fans are multiplying qu
Lake Versions: The WL Interview
May 15, 2019Editor’s Note: We asked Bradley Davis of Fresh Snow to interview his bandmate Tim Condon’s new side project Lake Versions. We thought it would be fun. You tell us if we made the right call or not. (Edit after actually reading: we sure did.) Purveyors of: Digital float tank headphone symphonies File next to: Portishead, This Mortal Coil, Popul Vuh, Stereolab. Playing: Sunday May 19th,
Mary Ocher + Your Government: The WL Interview
May 14, 2019Purveyors of: Performative, digestible subversion. File next to: Norma Tanega, Vera Lynn, Nina Hagen, Klaus Nomi. Playing: Sunday, May 19th at Arraymusic (155 Walnut Ave, Toronto). Get your tickets here! Mary Ocher is a creative storyteller, one who is never hesitant to use any medium or push boundaries to transmit thought and explore the ticks of humanity. Listen closely. Every piece of
I Am Robot and Proud: The WL Interview
April 10, 2019Purveyors of: Shiny bytes of joyfulness File next to: Mouse on Mars, Matthew Herbert, Telefon Tel Aviv Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday April 13, 2019 @ Brothers Dressler. Get your tickets here! Shaw-Han Liem has been creating music under the I Am Robot and Proud moniker for some time now, seeing the project transition from solo bedroom producer to world-traveling full b
Purveyors of: Evolving electric circuits painting impossible colours in your mind. File next to: Daniel Avery, The Field, Digits Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday April 13, 2019 @ Brothers Dressler. Get your tickets here! There’s something about the music of World News that’s difficult to pinpoint — an elusive quality that only reveals itself to you when the show’
Thanya Iyer – The WL Interview
April 9, 2019Purveyors of: Magic-forest dream-pop File next to: Bernice, Common Holly, Emilie Kahn Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday April 13, 2019 @ Brothers Dressler (11pm set). Get your tickets here! Like some mythical creature emerging wide-eyed from a magical forest, Thanya Iyer’s sparkling experimental pop intrigues the listener, coaxing you to explore another plane of reality
Ace of Wands: The WL Interview
March 29, 2019Purveyors of: Doom Lounge? File next to: Beams, The Weather Station, PJ Harvey Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday March 30, 2019 @ Monarch Tavern. Get your tickets here! Toronto trio Ace of Wands stir up up soulful indie-folk with driving post-punk and classical violin in their sound, a wizardly brew complete with some fabulous outfits. Led by singer-songwriter Lee Rose, t
Buke and Gase: The (Latest) WL Interview
March 27, 2019Purveyors of: Electro-infused homemade post-punk anthems File next to: Deerhoof , The National Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday March 30, 2019 @ Monarch Tavern. Get your tickets here! Buke and Gase, Hudson, New York’s nifty avant-pop duo and ingenious instrument builders, are back in Toronto to kick off the Wavelength Monthly Music Series for 2019. Derek Westerholm to