Pierre Kwenders: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 24, 2015Purveyor of: Addictive Afro-hip-hop-pop, coloured by plenty of great featured artists. File next to: Radio Radio, Cheza, African Guitar Summit. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! As Wavelog readers and indie music enthusiasts, we’re not easily impressed by accolades. But Pierre Kwenders has gained some pretty impressive momentum rece
JOYFULTALK: The Wavelength Interview
August 12, 2015Purveyors of: Squint and plop school of electronic composition File Next To: The Books, Morton Subotnik, Aphex Twin Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! JOYFULTALK is the complex and intricate work of electronic composer Jay Crocker. The sounds range from eclectic sound-collage to subtly dancey bricolage. An avid user of analog synthesiz
Doomsquad: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 25, 2015Purveyors of: House music, but the house is in the woods, and the call is coming from inside the house. File next to: Fever Ray, Liars, Balam Acab Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! Doomsquad make freaky forest music that worms its way into your psyche. It is unsettling, hypnotic, and a delightful contrast from the faux-folk we’ve
Dirty Frigs: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 11, 2015Purveyors of: Creepy, droning garage rock, layered with fuzz and topped with bright, catchy vocals. File Next To: Ty Segall, Crosss, Link Wray, Mexican Slang, Scratch Acid, early Wavves, King Tuff. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! It’s hard to describe the sound of Dirty Frigs, a Toronto band made up of Bria Salmena (vocals and guita
RAVETAPES: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyors of: Live DJ mixing, nonstop bass-heavy, synth-bumping, reverbed-out vocal style EDM party jams that just don’t quit. File next to: Orbital, Sasha and Digweed, Basement Jaxx Playing next: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Party!) @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Brandon DeGroote and Mike Pereir
Doldrums: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyors of: Collage pop, Sub Pop, dark electronic dance music. File next to: Grimes, Animal Collective, East India Youth Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! In an interview, Jim Morrison of The Doors envisioned that music in the future would consist of a one-person setup with electronics and machines: singing, speaking, and creating.
Allegories: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 7, 2015Purveyors of: Cavernous pop songs and intrigue. File Next To: Big Black, Washed Out, a happy nap. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Set!) at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Allegories are a guild of shadowy figures that emerge occasionally from behind the veil of the Internet to woo audiences with the
Loscil: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 26, 2015Purveyor of: Submerged, icy, low-end ambience, minimal techno and drone. File next to: Tim Hecker, Tycho, Stars of the Lid Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Synonymous with the element of water as it is with isolation, Scott Morgan’s deep, desolate soundwork as Loscil provides an almost too-perfect complement to the setting for the i
Kurt Marble: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 6, 2015Purveyors of: Fuzzed out, throwback garage glam rock with heavy pop hooks. File next to: Ty Segall, T-Rex, King Tuff Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Get your tickets here! Fathers! Lock up your daughters, and sons, because we’re all at risk from being infected with Kurt Marble’s STDs. That’s Sonically Transmitted Ditties. Sympto
Kidstreet: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 5, 2015Purveyors of: Smart, snappy electro-pop that’s infectious — but not in a clinical way File Next To: Esthero, Martha + the Muffins, Robyn Playing: Camp Wavelength (Late Night* Set!!) Saturday, August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your tickets here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! Kidstreet have been M.I.A. for a few years, but Camp Wavelength will mark the return
Etiquette: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 27, 2015Purveyors of: Moody synthpop for the bedroom and, occasionally, the ballroom. File next to: Beach House, The xx Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! Toronto’s Etiquette seemingly emerged fully formed in late 2014, but in truth, its members have been here the whole time. Founded by Julie Fader (a solo performer in her own right, but
Scattered Clouds: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 4, 2015File next to: Timber Timbre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor Purveyors of: Late-night feel-bad music for deviants on the prowl. Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Formed in 2010 as a solo project, Hull, Quebec’s Scattered Clouds expanded into a baroque exploration of the sinister. Lurching with brooding intensity, the music of Scattered
Blonde Elvis: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 27, 2015Purveyors of: Sexy guitar pop. File next to: Josef K, The Flamin Groovies, Orange Juice Playing: Camp Wavelength, Saturday August 29 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Jesse James Laderoute: frontman for Blonde Elvis, Torontonian for 11 years, and lover of the email interview. Inspired by the rumblings of the city, Laderoute’s music falls somewhere between modest self-awaren
Anamai: The Camp Wavelength Interview
August 3, 2015Purveyors of: Experimental folk and sing-song ambience File next to: Neil Young’s Le Noise, Bibio, Twist, Del Bel Playing: Camp Wavelength, Sunday August 30 @ Artscape Gibraltar Point Get your ticket here! I’m really not sure what to expect when I show up to meet Anna Mayberry at the Holy Oak one sunny afternoon. A punk screamer or a winsome mewler? An outspoken force or shy recluse? Tur
The Nihilist Spasm Band: The Wavelength Interview
September 17, 2015Sounds like: Marbles rolling around in a few pots and pans. File next to: Do not file this. Playing: Tonight! (Sept. 17) at The Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.) – Tickets at the door. Earplugs available at the merch table! What is a “spasm band”? In essence, it’s a group of folks who make a racket with instruments they’ve either found, built, or – as is sometimes the case – a
Holy Fuck: The Camp Wavelength Interview
July 31, 2015Purveyors of: Electro-acoustic jams using toys, keyboards and other noisemaking objects with live bass & drums File Next To: Hot Chip, Liars, LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Fuck Buttons Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Get your ticket here! Holy Fuck are back! After a hectic six-year tour schedule and the subsequent time off, a new album is nearly ready f
Above Top Secret: The Camp Wavelength Interview
July 27, 2015Purveyors of: Futuristic mysticism, hip-hop positivity mashed up with electro-industrial menace. File next to: Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction Playing: Camp Wavelength, Friday August 28 (Late Night Set) at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island). Get your ticket here! *Late Night Ferry Ticket Required. Purchase one here! When it all crashes down, you have to build it up again. A couple
Baby Cages: The Wavelength Interview
November 5, 2015Purveyors of: Mutating goth pop. File next to: Siouxsie & the Banshees, Massive Attack, Cat Power Playing: Friday, November 13 at The Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St.) — Get your tickets here! The music that Toronto/Halifax duo Baby Cages makes is hard to describe. Certainly goth-tinged, it shares commonalities with a diverse group of influences from the reality-folk of Cat Power to the
Bernice: The Wavelength Interview
November 8, 2015Purveyors of: Soft indie R&B, in which the R stands for romanticized melancholy and the B stands for blissful memories. File next to: Feist, Little Dragon, Juana Molina Playing: Friday, November 13th @ the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St.) — Get your tickets here! Bernice is “tenderness encapsulated, smoothnesses ebbing and flowing. A warm mauve light hums where butterfly kisses fl
Swedish Azz: The Wavelength Interview
June 23, 2015Purveyors of: The sound of jazz falling down a very long flight of stairs, and sticking the landing perfectly. File next to: The little-known history of Swedish jazz Playing: Wavelength 670, Tuesday June 23 @ Hard Luck Bar, opening for The Ex Maybe Sweden isn’t the first place that pops into your mind when you hear the word “jazz” — but without Sweden’s rich jazz history, perhaps M