Wavelength Music Festival: FOURTEEN feat. Marnie Stern, Colin Stetson, DIANA, Cousins, Phèdre, Odonis Odonis, US Girls & more
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Wavelength Music Festival: FOURTEEN
February 13-16, 2014 • Toronto, Canada
Celebrating the 14th Anniversary of the Wavelength Music Series
Click here for the Listenable Poster by Derek Ma and Show Gopher!
Complete #WL14 Festival Schedule:
Thursday February 13 @ The Silver Dollar Room, 486 Spadina Ave.
PHEDRE (Toronto - electro-pop R&B decadence from Dan and April of Hooded Fang / Daps Records)
TOPS (Montreal - the missing link between ‘80s synth-pop and ‘70s soft-rock / Arbutus Records)
Zoo Owl (Toronto – mysterious dance-pop apparition)
Alden Penner (Montreal / ex-The Unicorns & Clues - love ballads for the modern age)
You’ll Never Get To Heaven (London, ON – ambient dream-pop duo / Divorce Records)
Please note: Ostrich Tuning are regretfully no longer able to perform.
+ DJ ARP-2600
++ Projections by General Chaos Visuals + Tough Guy Mountain
Co-presented with Silent Shout
8pm • $10 adv / $15 door • 19+
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Friday February 14 @ Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide St. W.
Red Bull Presents:
MARNIE STERN (Brooklyn, NY – America’s guitar-shredding ecstatic-punk goddess, 2013 standout LP The Chronicles of Marnia / Kill Rock Stars)
DIANA (Toronto – romantic ‘80s-inspired new wave electro soul / Jagjaguwar & Paper Bag Records)
Odonis Odonis (Toronto – pummeling electro-shoegaze punk / Buzz Records)
Weaves (Toronto – shambolically R&B-inspired garage-pop / Buzz Records)
Matrox (Planet Matrox – interplanetary robots demand your compliance)
+ DJ ZOJO (Diamond Rings)
++ Projections by Live Action Fezz + General Chaos Visuals
8pm • $17 adv / $20 door • 19+
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IN-STORE: Saturday February 15 @ June Records, 662 College St.
Weird Canada: “Wyrd Distro” Launch
Talk by: Weird Canada's Aaron Levin & Marie Claire Flanagan (essential Canadian underground music blog & community hub Weird Canada launches its music distribution service!)
Music by: Carl Didur (analog synth drone-meister)
4pm • FREE • All Ages
Saturday February 15 @ Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley St.
COLIN STETSON (Montreal – 2x Polaris Prize short-lister and mesmerizing bass saxophone colossus! / Constellation Records)
US Girls (Toronto – Meghan Remy’s interstellar take on ‘60s AM radio pop / FatCat Records)
Biblical (Toronto - Nick Sewell's monsteriffic psych-rock riffage, new album out March 10 on Dine Alone)
Petra Glynt (Toronto – Alexandra MacKenzie’s tribal percussion-driven chant-pop / Healing Power Records / plus visuals by Steve Reaume)
Gambletron (Montreal – Lisa Gamble’s sound-art & noise-electronic improvisations / plus visuals by Johnny Fever)
+ DJ Jesse Locke
++ Projections by Hard Science (Ottawa)
+ General Chaos Visuals
Co-presented with Weird Canada
8pm • $20 adv / $25 door • All Ages
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IN-STORE: Sunday February 16 @ Sonic Boom Music (Annex), 782 Bathurst St.
“The Toronto Music Moment”
Discussion with: Councillor Josh Colle, Wavelength’s Jonny Dovercourt, Dalton Higgins, Nadine McNulty & Noah Mintz (topic: now that the world has officially discovered Toronto music, where does the scene go from here?)
Music by:
Ark Analog (Maylee Todd & Dan "Woodhands" Werb's electro-pop allure)
Mexican Slang (Annabelle Lee's lo-fi garage-punk excellence)
Evelyn Mukwedeya & Memory Makuri (Zimbabwean Mbira duo, member of Nhapitapi)
Co-presented with Batuki Music & Show Gopher
3pm • FREE • All Ages
Sunday February 16 @ The Garrison, 1197 Dundas St. W.
COUSINS (Halifax, NS – epic indie-rock duo, set to release the Canadian indie album of 2014)
Greys (Toronto – math-punk power-quartet powerhouse)
The Wet Secrets (Edmonton, AB – rock’n’roll marching dance band! new album out Feb. 4th)
Lido Pimienta (Toronto
– Colombian-Canadian electro-freak-pop singer with Interactive Gaming
Experience brought to you by Kahuna Ware and Sunamico)
Elaquent (Guelph, ON – creative instrumental hip-hop beatmaker)
+ DJ Slowdown (PS I Love You)
++ Projections by General Chaos Visuals + Tough Guy Mountain
Co-presented with Kazoo! Guelph
8pm • $10 adv / $15 door • 19+
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