Joanne Pollock: The Wavelength Interview
May 11, 2017Purveyors of: Lush dreams of the electronic Prairies. File next to: Kate Bush, Venetian Snares, Cocteau Twins, Austra Playing: “Sex and Death” co-presented by Broken Pencil Magazine and Wavelength, Thursday May 18 at the Monarch Tavern. Get tickets! Joanne Pollock is a stunning new Canadian talent, a gloriously unclassifiable electronic producer and vocalist whose often captivating so
Del Bel – The Wavelength Interview
April 28, 2017Purveyors of: Pop-noir. File next to: Your creepiest and favourite mystery novels by Raymond Chandler. Playing: Del Bel album release w/ Language Arts, Saturday April 29 @ Longboat Hall (Great Hall basement). Get tickets here! Del Bel have been a steady if shadowy figure on the Canadian music scene for the last six years. Over the course of three albums, the Guelph/Toronto band’s sound
Language Arts – The Wavelength Interview
April 27, 2017Purveyors of: Classically informed punchy art-pop. File next to: Xenia Rubinos, NV. Playing: Del Bel album release w/ Language Arts, Saturday April 29 @ Longboat Hall (Great Hall basement). Get tickets here! Language Arts is a constantly evolving project of Kristen Cudmore’s that has taken flight from Halifax to Vancouver to Toronto. The band writes bright, sparkly melodies that interm
Saxsyndrum – The Wavelength Interview
April 25, 2017Purveyors of: Sexy self-sampling sax and sequencing science. File Next To: Caribou, Moon Hooch, Suuns. Playing: Del Bel album release w/ Language Arts, Saturday April 29 @ Longboat Hall (Great Hall basement). Get tickets here! Saxsyndrum is an experimental electronic pop group from Montreal comprised of saxophonist David Switchenko, Nick Schofield on drums and synths, and AP Bergeron on v
Zone Support: The Wavelength Interview
March 17, 2017Purveyors of: Stone-age new-age. File next to: Man Made Hill, Midori Takada, ASMR self-help audio books. Playing: Don’t Speak II, Saturday, March 18 @ The Baby G. Get tickets here! Oracles of introspective insight Zone Support impart crystals of thought through vessels of word and sound. For Don’t Speak II, they will forgo speech and transmit their philosophies through music and movement only
Emay: The Wavelength Interview
February 19, 2017Purveyor of: Lyrically focused, socially charged hip-hop founded on uncompromising beats that sound like they’ve been echoing through an abandoned factory for 1,000 years. File next to: Nas, Above Top Secret, Brendan Philip Playing: WL17 Night 3, Sunday, Feb. 19 @ The Garrison. Emay is a Hamilton-based hip-hop artist, who has garnered lots of buzz for his recently released music video,
FET.NAT: The Wavelength Interview
February 17, 2017Purveyors of: Theatrical, shambling, percussive post-punk. File next to: James Chance & the Contortions, NoMeansNo, The Ex, Last Ex Playing: WL17 Night 2, Saturday Feb. 18 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! FET.NAT is the most energetic and original post-punk group playing today. With virtuosic saxophone, a frontman that engages, entertains, and confounds, and halting drums and guitar
Strands: The Wavelength Interview
February 16, 2017Purveyors of: Lo-fi looping melodies making love with floating heads on fire. File next to: Weaves, tUnE-yArDs, white overalls being engulfed in flames. Playing: WL17 All-Ages Matinee, Saturday Feb. 18 @ The Monarch Tavern. Get tickets here! Strands are an eclectic, wild mix of projected flames, puppetry, looped distorted songs, and white overalls. Powered by Jasmyn Burke (Weaves) and visua
Helena Deland: The Wavelength Interview
February 16, 2017Purveyors of: Rhythmic exchanges and tonal changes. File next to: Angel Olsen, Daughter, Alela Diane. Playing: WL17 Night 2, Saturday Feb. 18th @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Initially a solo act, Helena Deland is now a four-piece outfit from Montréal. Together with Mathieu Bérubé, Francis Ledoux, and Alexandre Larin, Helena Deland creates a dynamic between rhythm and vocals that
Chandra: The Wavelength Interview
February 14, 2017Purveyor of: Post-punk dance-rock for the ages, and all ages File next to: B-52s, Bush Tetras, Basquiat, Bile Sister Playing: Wavelength Music Festival 17 – Night 1, Friday Feb. 17 @ The Garrison. Get festival passes here! The post-punk era of New York in the early ‘80s is often thought of as a hedonistic time and place. But the NYC of James Chance and Lydia Lunch, ESG and Liquid Liquid
Purveyor of: Silken electronic curves and swirls, gilded with pulsing beats. File next to: Petra Glynt, Grimes, Braids Playing: WL17 Night 3, Sunday Feb. 19 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Rebecca Fin Simonetti is a multidisciplinary creator now residing in New York, with roots in the Toronto arts community. Her musical endeavour FIN is a halting and haunted electronic manifestation, wi
WLMRT: The Wavelength Interview
February 13, 2017Purveyors of: Slack n’ suave dirt punk. File next to: Hag Face, Prom Nite, The Slits Playing: WL17 All-Ages Matinee, Saturday Feb. 18 @ The Monarch Tavern. Get tickets here! WLMRT bring a gutsy, guttural and just-shy-of-bratty style of punk. Fitting right in with the new Toronto hardcore underground, they bring a frenetic tension built for small dirty rooms and beer-soaked pits. Adam Bradl
Kat Estacio: The Wavelength Interview
February 15, 2017Purveyor of: Hypnotic gong flow. File next to: Pantayo, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Jon Hassell Playing: WL17 Drone Brunch, Sunday Feb. 19 @ The Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar. Free and all-ages! Bringing the racked-gong traditions of Filipino kulintang to T.O. in the 21st century, Pantayo is mixing modern beats and synths with ancient sounds. One of the collective’s founders, Kat Estacio, is now stepping
Purveyors of: A smooth blend of traditional Filipino/Cebuano music, catchy melodies, and hard-hitting rap with a dash of Kulintang File next to: M.I.A, Santigold, Missy Elliot, Datu, Phèdre, Pantayo Playing: Wavelength Music Festival 17 – Night 3, Sunday Feb. 19th @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Han Han is a Filipinx-Canadian rapper taking Toronto and the world by storm. Being new to Can
Phèdre: The WL17 Interview Purveyors of: Electronic pop decadence File next to: Hooded Fang, Björk, Death Grips Playing: Wavelength Music Festival 17 – Night 3, Sunday Feb. 19th @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Phèdre are a staple in Toronto’s electronic music scene. Composed of April Aliermo & Daniel Lee of Hooded Fang, Phèdre have traveled all over the world, bringing th
Purveyors of: Music for all the other rejects. File next to: Elevator, Sleep, Six Organs of Admittance Playing: WL17 Night 2, Saturday Feb. 18 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! WHOOP-Szo are the archetypal, unsung workhorses of the Canadian DIY music scene. Happily and nobly making art on the margins, playing any show in any town, this London-via-Guelph crew blasts out teeth-rattling sto
Purveyors of: Whisper-crooned daydream tunes. File next to: M83, My Bloody Valentine, Tennis Playing: WL17 Night 3, Sunday Feb. 19 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Hush Pup is a dream-synth pop duo made up of Ida Maidstone and Steve Scott. Based out of both Toronto and Victoria, BC, the pair offers an unburdened sound that is impossible to not find relaxing. Wavelength’s Devin Calow
Fake Palms: The Wavelength Interview
February 8, 2017Purveyors of: Entrancing pop-rock noise and its ensuing hypnosis. File next to: Fucked Up, Preoccupations, Solids … and Elvis? Playing: WL17 Night 2, Saturday Feb. 18 @ The Garrison. Get tickets here! Fake Palms is an underground Toronto “supergroup” that is steadily clawing their way to the surface of attention. Made up of Michael Le Riche, Simone Tisshaw-Baril (Slim Twig, US Gir
Purveyors of: Shoegaze, Post-Shoegaze, Noise-gaze, Post-Noise, Post-Everything File next to: Sonic Youth, Massive Attack, Blur, Beliefs, Rolemodel Playing: Class of 2017, Saturday January 21 @ The Silver Dollar Room. Get Tickets! Yi, featuring Jesse Crowe of Beliefs and Jordan Allen of Rolemodel, is a brand new project under renowned Toronto indie label Hand Drawn Dracula. Having secretly jam
Xiu Xiu: The Wavelength Interview
June 28, 2016Purveyors of: Unrelenting pop from the void. File next to: Coil, Scott Walker, Jenny Hval, Grouper, Dominick Fernow Playing: Red Bull Sound Select showcase @ The Garrison, Thursday June 30. RSVP here for entry! Xiu Xiu have been in the business of deconstructing and transforming pop structures and beyond for over a decade and a half now. No stranger to experimentation, frontman Jamie Stewa