Purveyors of: Actual Rock ‘n’ Roll File Next To: Deefhoof, Weaves, rubber objects, obscure tropical fruit Playing: Saturday, November 25 @ Bike Pirates. Get tickets here! Slippery and springy art-rock, slathered with oils and muds. Mallowy stuff burping out of crusty craters, sliming colour over reluctant shapes, coiling up and cracking off in the sun. Gut churning entertainment for life bene
Purveyors of: Fun and poppy fuzz rock File next to: The Breeders, Cub, Dilly Dally, Spinnerette, Veruca Salt Playing:: WL 744, Saturday, Nov. 25 @ Bike Pirates. Get tickets here! PONY are a Toronto based four-piece composed of Sam Bielanski on vocals and guitar, Eva Link on bass, Stephen Giroux on guitar, and new drummer Lucas Horne. After recording and releasing their first EP back in 2
Bonnie Trash – The WL Interview
November 20, 2017Purveyors of: Cannibalistic goth-noir fuckpop. File next to: PJ Harvey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Feist Playing: WL 744, Saturday, Nov. 25 @ Bike Pirates. Get tickets here! Bonnie Trash are Guelph-based twin sisters Sarafina Troy and Emmalia Vash Bortolon-Vettor. Their latest EP Ezzelini’s Dead was inspired by an Italian folk tale about a medieval tyrant who was said to have
Contact + Allison Cameron: The Wavelength Interview
May 26, 2017Purveyors of: Accessible and varied “new” music. The intersections between improvisation, contemporary music, and the spaces in which they occur. File next to: Bang on a Can, Ann Southam, Norma Beecroft Playing: “Wavelength at Doors Open Toronto” – Saturday May 27, 2:15PM at Evergreen Brick Works. Free concert – information here! In 2015, prolific improviser and composer Allison Cam
Ainsley Naylor from Bike Pirates: The Wavelength Interview
May 25, 2017Purveyor of: DIY punk-rock community spirit & build-your-own-bike attitude. Bike Pirates has been an important part of the Toronto cycling community – and increasingly, its music community – for over a decade now. First opened in 2006 on Bathurst south of College (before moving to Bloor & Lansdowne in 2008), Bike Pirates now calls Parkdale home, having opened the doors of its curren
Kurt Marble: The Wavelength Doors Open Interview
May 25, 2017Purveyors of: The perfect mix of fuzz-calamity and melody File Next To: Nirvana, The Flaming Lips, T. Rex Playing: Wavelength at Doors Open Toronto, 4 PM Saturday, May 27 @ The Masonic Temple (888 Yonge St.). Free show! More information available here. Kurt Marble has been blasting his unique mix of fuzz heavy garage rock since his debut release in 2015. Now he’s back with a brand new E
The Holy Gasp: The Wavelength Interview
May 25, 2017Purveyors of: Beatnik jazz-punk conga frenzy File Next To: Tom Waits, The Contortions, Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, Igor Stravinsky Playing: Wavelength’s Doors Open Toronto After-Party, Saturday May 27 @ Bike Pirates. Get tickets here, or at the door! There is no band anywhere quite like The Holy Gasp. Toronto’s only beatnik jazz-punk party band exploded onto the scene a few yea
Fresh Snow: The Wavelength (at Doors Open) Interview
May 23, 2017Purveyors of: Cyclones of careening, contagious camaraderie. File Next To: Amon Düül, Drive Like Jehu, Spiritualized. Playing: Free show Saturday May 27, NOON (sharp!) @ the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (south main doors of the Control Room building), part of Wavelength’s three Doors Open shows that day! More info here. Fresh Snow’s Bradley Davis, Andy Lloyd, Jon Maki and Tim
Spoils: The Wavelength Interview
May 23, 2017Purveyors of: Post-folk-punk-rock. File next to: Fugazi, PJ Harvey, METZ, Sleater-Kinney. Playing: Wavelength’s “Doors Open Toronto” After Party, Saturday May 27 @ Bike Pirates (1416 Queen St. W). Tickets available here, or at the door. Spoils is a four-piece political post-hardcore band from Toronto, consisting of two lead guitars, bass and drums. On their 2017 album As If A Beast, t
Plasmalab: The Wavelength Interview
May 17, 2017Purveyors of: Noisy nihilist anthems and unbothered swagger. File next to: Kim Gordon, Flipper, Priests, METZ, Babes in Toyland. Playing: Wavelength + Broken Pencil present Sex & Death, May 18th @ The Monarch Tavern. Get tickets here! Plasmalab is the starkly unbothered trio of Jacqueline Lachance, Katie Hernandez, and Morgan Dowler. Their self-titled demo tape of muddy, moany slowpu
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