ALL CAPS! Musical! Line-up! Announced!
July 5, 2012The wait is over. The musical line-up at the 2012 ALL CAPS! Island Festival is now public domain! We’re thrilled to share the line-up with you, as well as announced our IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign and the release of our new trailer video. Tickets go on sale next week – but IndieGogo supporters have first crack at camping & festival passes! For complete festivals details, go here.
An Evening with Dusty: The Ambient Sci-Fi Mysteries of Kyle Bobby Dunn
June 7, 2012Good evening, folks. If you’re having a quiet evening in, we highly recommend you take the time to check out Kyle Bobby Dunn’s video for “An Evening with Dusty.” We’re not entirely sure what is happening – from the amazing opening shots of a comet-like object in the sky over a New Zealand beach onwards – but the freckled tomboy protagonist appears to receive and return a message from the beyond. A
By now I’m sure many of you have seen or heard that this year’s Coachella featured a hologram performance of Tupac. Not by Tupac, of course, but of Tupac. With Snoop. It was weird. Hologram performances aren’t technically new; there’s a CGI hologram popstar in Japan named Hatsune Miku, which started out as a way to promote vocal software and grew into a fully synthesized recording “artist” which t
#WL12 • Last Night Tonight @ The Garrison!
February 19, 2012Where did the weekend go? From The Shop under Parts & Labour to Steam Whistle Brewing to The Great Hall it’s been a crazy fun trip and we’ve got one more stop tonight. Join us at The Garrison as we update Wavelength’s OS to Dragon with performances by Most People, Motem, Army Girls, Burning Love and P.S. I Love You! It’s Sunday night and tomorrow’s a holiday so come have a drink and sa
#WL12 • Tonight @ The Great Hall
February 18, 2012Thanks for partying with us at Steam Whistle Brewing last night, holy so much fun! We’re halfway through our 12th anniversary festivities! Come hang out tonight at The Great Hall to check out No Joy, listen to Sandro Perri explore some impossible spaces, Nat Baldwin will mesmerize your ears, Off The International Radar will chill out your mind and The Weather Station will cozy up the night. See yo
#WL12 • Three More Nights of Awesome!
February 17, 2012Thanks everyone for making the first night our 12th anniversary such a blast! From Parts & Labour’s speakeasy vibe while Eucalyptus kicked things off to the late night sweaty raucous jams of Metz it was a killer weekend welcomer. Hope you all got some sleep because we’ve got three more days of celebrating to do! Come drink and party with us down at the ol’ Steam Whistle Brewing and help Fucked
#WL12 Program Guide, Day Four: Get to know Most People
February 11, 2012We’re on to the fourth and final night of Wavelength Anniversary Festival TWELVE, which we’ve been previewing in chronological order over the last two weeks on the Wavelength Tumblr page. The big blowout is happening next weekend – so soon! – and did you know that it happens to be a Long Weekend? That’s right, you can thank Premier “Dad” McGuinty for bestowing the “Family Day” holiday on overworke
Sorry folks but due to unforseeable unforseens, Miserere aren’t able to play tonight, leaving us with a still excellent lineup of Hobson’s Choice and Betty Burke. Also we are going to announce the lineup for a dirty sweaty Wavelength 521 at the Garrison on July 10, but are going to wait until the details of the amazing WL420 gonzoganza courtyard shows are announced but if you’re looking for a p
Musical magician and man-of-many-alias Nifty has concocted in his cauldron of sound a damn hot remix of a killer track by local dub trippers The Deeep. It was only a matter of time, really, before these two forces collided into wonder. Open your ears. Dream, The Deeep (Prince Nifty dreamix) by Prince Nifty
Ain't No Cure for the Wintertime Blues?
January 21, 2011As we look forward to our annual winter-time festivities — our Anniversary Festival ELEVEN is coming up Feb. 16-20th, you may have heard — let’s take a moment to also look back to that seemingly mythical time known as summer. It seems almost impossible to think that just a few months ago, we were walking the streets of T.O. in short-sleeve comfort. To prove we weren’t imagining all that, we ha
Ain't Nuthin' but an H. Fang — new Hooded Fang "Album" released tonight!
December 9, 2010Kudos to our pals in Hooded Fang, the co-ed sextet who’ve been winning hearts since 2008, and are releasing their debut full-length album, Album, tonight (Dec. 9) at the Drake Underground, 1150 Queen St. W. The Fang first played Wavelength 417 back in June ’08, then not long after, they made an amazing appearance at our Wavelength 450 Ninth Anniversary Festival at the SPK Polish Combatants Hall in
A belated ALL CAPS! Island Festival thank you
September 7, 2010This is a much belated thank you to everyone who came out and made this year’s ALL CAPS! Island Festival at Artscape Gibraltar Point. The bands, the artists, the wonderful Artscape staff, the volunteers and the attendees together all made it a really unique and amazing experience. After the success of last October’s ALL CAPS! Island Show, we weren’t sure how a two day festival would play out
A Wavelength guide to our solar system
May 6, 2010OR… Missives from the underworld: A Wavelength guide to a scale model solar system using a TTC Token and a flight to Hong Kong by Doc Pickles I live in a very big city on a small planet, a very small planet — a planet I will likely never leave and a city I leave seldom. Wavelength’s instalment at Kazoo! Fest in Guelph was a beautiful excuse to hit the road for a brief adventure with my frie
A Decade of Sundays – Sneaky Love
February 14, 2010Since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, we thought you might like to hear a true love story from Jessie Davis: “The first Sunday in November 2004, the Wavelength show (#238, I believe) at Sneaky Dee’s was King Cobb Steelie – a band I had always quite liked but had never seen live. My friends Tanje and Phil and I arrived early and sat downstairs in the front area drinking beer. With my back to th
We’ve got an exciting show this weekend, with two very young Toronto bands and one out-of-towner. First off, Vollmar is the solo project of Bloomington, Indiana native Justin Vollmar. It’s a cross between chamber pop and campfire folk, a bit like if Elliot Smith covered Belle and Sebastien. Then there’s ‘It It, a group of guys that are new to Toronto and at least partly hail from Victoria. A
7 Brief Answers from Kathleen Yearwood
June 9, 2009For a selection of artists playing Wavelength in June 2009 I, Doc Pickles, have decided to interview some of the performers using a form-interview. It’s amazing how varied and insightful the artists’ answers are, all to the beat of the same questions. In the case of legendary (to me at least) Kathleen Yearwood who is performing at WL467 with Planet Creature, The Whole Entire Universe, and the
50 Years of Toronto the Good-Ass
January 22, 2009Our friends over at The Varsity — who have been doing such a fine job of covering local culture lately that you’d be forgiven for forgetting it’s a University of Toronto student paper — have just launched their Independent Arts issue. The special edition features interviews with legendary film subversive Reg Hartt of Cineforum, author Sheila Heti (as part of a trio of profiles of artistically
A Christmas Gift for You: Wavelength 450 Festival Line-Up Announced!
December 25, 2008Or is that an early Valentine’s Day present? We’re always excited to unwrap our annual Anniversary party line-up, and this year we’re so buzzing with enthusiasm that we decided to release the goodies in time for Christmas. We think Phil Spector would approve. This year marks our ninth anniversary, and with 50 numbered Wavelength series shows a year, that makes this Wavelength #450. Check out
(Poor) Pilgrim's Progress on Summer (Sunday) Solace
July 17, 2008Poor Pilgrim is the creation of Matt Cully, a member of the Toronto band Bruce Peninsula, but on last Sunday (July 13), you could say that it is also a genuine product of the Toronto music community. PP started as a weekly live music series at the tiny Press Club on Dundas in 2006, and after a year-long run, Cully wrapped up the series with a fabulous free outdoor show on Toronto Island, on 2007’s
Abdominal wins SOCAN Echo Prize
October 3, 2007It’s official. Despite stiff competition, Toronto’s own Abdominal (who played Wavelength 374 in August) has won the SOCAN Echo Songwriting Prize, snagging a sweet ,000. He was up against Chad VanGaalen, Nathan, Feuermusik (who have also played Wavelength) and The Besnard Lakes. Congrats Andy!