Purveyors of: Transcendental electronic pop world-building File next to: Atlas Sound, Beach House, Yumi Zouma Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival Night 2, Saturday Feb. 16 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Isla Den is a Toronto-based electronic dream-pop duo – the brainchild of Ellie Manning and Michael Reale. The duo is passionate about audio-visual works and musical storytelling, amplif
Mélissa Laveaux: The WL Interview
February 7, 2019Purveyors of: Electric Afro-Caribbean indie/funk/soul File next to: Sandra Nkaké, Alela Diane Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival Night 1, Friday Feb. 15 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Mélissa Laveaux is a Haitian-Canadian singer/songwriter who relocated to Paris in 2008 after the French label No Format offered to release her music. Laveaux’s joyous-sounding music incorporates funk
Purveyor of: Dreamy, psychedelic pop File next to: Munya, Tess Roby (and Can, of course) Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival, Saturday February 16, 2019 @ The Garrison. Get your tickets here! Created and led by Montreal’s Chloé Soldevila, creatively incorporating aspects that can vary from dream pop to dance music to krautrock, Anemone’s music will stick with you, living in
Future Peers: The WL Interview
February 5, 2019Purveyor of: Pop/rock from the future File next to: Ariel Pink, Atlas Sound Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival, Saturday February 16, 2019 @ The Garrison. Get your tickets here! Future Peers were hatched at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and formed between a cold garage in Toronto and a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles. They make music that sounds like it might be from th
Purveyor of: Melodic, heartfelt indie rock with a bold & adventurous spirit File next to: Alvvays, Best Coast Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival, Saturday February 16, 2019 @ The Garrison. Get your tickets here! Laura Hermiston’s songwriting prowess knows no bounds. Her band Twist’s knack for writing melodic and memorable guitar pop is otherworldly, and there’s no doubt that
Kingdom of Birds: The WL Interview
January 31, 2019Purveyor of: Teenage enthusiasm leads to remarkable songs File next to: Feist, Broken Social Scene, Sloan Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival, Sunday Feb 17, 2019 @ Monarch Tavern (All Ages Matinee!) Get your tickets here! Kingdom of Birds have been grabbing the attention of unsuspecting audiences, international music blogs, and well-known musicians alike. The youthful Toronto indie-rock
Purveyor of: Dreamy rock with beautiful melodies File next to: Goodbye Honolulu, Weaves Playing: Wavelength Winter Festival, Sunday Feb 17, 2019 @ The Garrison. (+19) Get your tickets here! Toronto-based Luna Li has been playing shows around Ontario and Quebec for the past 3 years, and has released three music videos and a debut EP, Opal Angel, in October 2017. In June 2018,
Lonely Parade: The WL Interview
May 22, 2018Purveyor of: Anything-goes art-punk File next to: The Breeders, Speedy Ortiz Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music series, Saturday May 26, 2018 @ Bike Pirates. All ages! Get your tickets here! You never know what to expect from Lonely Parade. The Montreal-via-Peterborough trio is one of Buzz Records’ latest signees, playing noisy, no-fucks-given indie rock that twists and turns at the
Formerly Known As Pardons: The WL Interview
May 22, 2018Purveyor of: An explosion in Tranzac’s front room File next to: Clarinet Panic Deluxx, GUH, Josh Cole Quartet Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday May 26, 2018 @ Bike Pirates. (All Ages!) Get your tickets here! Formerly Known as Pardons is a free-improv supergroup consisting of Karen Ng, Josh Cole, and Blake Howard — who can be found keeping busy as members of big-name tou
Purveyor of: Unpredictable indie-punk tunes that tell a story. File next to: Kurt Vile, Guided By Voices. Playing: Wavelength Monthly Music Series, Saturday May 26, 2018 @ Bike Pirates. (All Ages!) Get your tickets here! JONCRO is a self-described noise rock/pop trio from Mississauga. Since 2015, their mission statement has been to spread the gospel of noise and some genre-defying
Purveyor of: Dreamy art pop meets classical opera File next to: Beach House, Joanna Newsom Playing: Wavelength Monthly: Tess Roby w/ Bernice and Dorothea Paas, Saturday April 21st at 918 Bathurst. Get your tickets here! Montreal singer-songwriter Tess Roby is releasing her debut LP Beacon on April 20th via Italians Do It Better. Her wistful tunes and longing vocals easily lull listeners
Dorothea Paas: The WL Interview
April 17, 2018Purveyor of: DIY bedroom pop File next to: Beat Happening, The Weather Station Playing: Wavelength Monthly: Tess Roby w/ Bernice and Dorothea Paas, Saturday April 21st at 918 Bathurst. Get your tickets here! Dorothea Paas is one of Toronto’s best-loved creators of DIY bedroom pop, with a sound that reminds that spring is actually an inevitability. The singer/songwriter is now playing with an
Purveyor of: Delicate experimental R&B sunlight filtering through the living room curtains in the afternoon. File next to: Frankie Cosmos, Angel Olsen, Japanese Breakfast Playing: Wavelength Monthly: Tess Roby w/ Bernice and Dorothea Paas, Saturday April 21st at 918 Bathurst. Get your tickets here! Toronto’s Bernice are an experimental indie R&B group composed
Pick A Piper: The WL Interview
March 18, 2018Purveyor of: Indelible polyrhythmic electronic anthems. File next to: Caribou, M83, Aphex Twin. Playing: WL #750, Sunday March 18 @ Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar. Get your tickets here! Dreamy global-electronic trio Pick A Piper combine catchy dancefloor grooves with atmospheric polyrhythmic production to create an entrancing and uplifting sense of wonder. Playing Wavelength’s 750th show at the
Purveyor of: Dreamy ambient post-rock electronica. File next to: Kraftwerk, Tortoise, Caribou, The Notwist. Playing: WL #750, Sunday March 18 @ Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar. Get your tickets here! Joasihno sounds like the music made by the proverbial machines of loving grace, at some point long after the technological singularity. Unlike today’s awkward AI art, the Munich music machine whirrs
Purveyor of: Synthtastic sci-fi epics File next to: Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernard Fèvre, Steve Roach. Playing: WL750, Sunday, March 18 @ The Gladstone Hotel – Melody Bar. Get your tickets here! Ben Oginz is quite busy these days. Aside from playing in bands such as Toronto’s spacey kraut stalwarts MIMICO, crunchy rockers The Greggies, and minimal new wave synth acts Memorex and Mystic Tri
Purveyor of: Dream-pop, indie-pop. File next to: Cyndi Lauper, Grimes, Ke$ha. Playing: WL18, Friday, February 16 @ The Garrison. Get your tickets here! Anne Douris didn’t mean for her alter-ego Bossie to become her central project. She had been a member of and contributor to several indie bands – including Stella Ella Ola and Hollerado – for years, as well as a visual artist and a
Purveyors Of: Surf-Pop Garage Rock File Next To: Communions, The Courtneys, PUP Playing: WL18, Saturday, February 17th @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Tough Age is a Toronto-based indie-rock trio. This past October, the Vancouver transplants released their latest album, Shame, on Mint Records. Wavelength’s Dora Boras caught up with frontman Jarrett Samson to talk about adjusting
Purveyor of: Post-funk, post-R&B. File next to: Nine Inch Nails, James Brown, Prince. Playing: WL18 Night 3, Sunday, Feb. 18 @ The Garrison. Get your tickets here! Fusilier’s energy is as electric as it is political. Né Blake Fusilier, the post-funk, prog-soul songwriter makes music that escapes simple categorization. His art ultimately showcases and draws upon his dual identity a
Purveyor of: The precarious space between electronic and hip-hop music that is full of bold melodies, strong rap, and iconic beats. File next to: Cadence Weapon, Internet Daughter Playing: WL18 Beyond the Core Panel, Thursday, Feb. 15 @ The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (7pm, FREE). Just John may be young, but he’s already a Toronto staple in the music and art scenes, garnering attention from th