THE BACKTHEFUCKUPS
Sunday Feb. 13, 12am @ Sneaky Dee's
First played WL 225
TheBackTheFuckUps (Toronto's premier back-up band, featuring members of The Old Soul and The Dirty Hearts), with the "I'm Gonna Cut Your Face" horns and featured vocalists: Alex Lukashevsky (Deep Dark United), Jonny Dovercourt (Republic of Safety), Jessie Stein (S.S. Cardiacs), Dean Sterling (More Plastic), Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), The Pauls (The Pauls!), Steve Kado (Barcelona Pavilion, etc.), Katia Taylor and Justin Small (Lullabye Arkestra), Nick Taylor (Old Soul, Dirty Hearts, Lenin), Derek Westerholm (The Creeping Nobodies) and Jenny Mitchell (The Bar Mitzvah Brothers), will perform a revue of a short decade's worth of Toronto indie rock for your pleasure.

The BackTheFuckUps liked the following recently:
1. Delta Barn Dances
2. Dave Clark topless Stones tributes
3. Bocce and beer in the morning
4. Getting paid four figures to play Sabbath for the kids
5. Best espresso in town `round the corner from the studio

THE BLOW
Sunday Feb. 13, 11:20pm @ Sneaky Dee's
First played WL 194
www.krecs.com/TheBlow
We're thrilled as heck to have Khaela Maricich, a.k.a. K Records artist The Blow, back to visit us from Portland. She will rock you with her sexy, R&B-infected indie-pop. For this show, she'll be joined by new Blow band member, Jona Bechtolt, a.k.a. YACHT!

Top Five of The Khaela of The Blow:
1. Most amazing: listening to personalized songs on my answering machine
2. Most painful: erasing all the songs
3. Most terrifying: performing an opera in front of adults wearing heavy art style glasses
4. Most fucked up: singing in front of a guy getting his pants pulled off
5. Most beautiful: retelling the story of The Sound of Music, in tears, to my friend Amber, fully feeling the impact of when Mr. Von Trapp comes in and hears all of his children singing, even though music in forbidden in the house, and when they see him they all get a terrified look in their eyes and stop singing, but then stretches his arms out to the sides and begins to sing the song along with them, and then they all cry and hug him in a big circle. Writing it is even making me cry again, now.

THE TWO KOREAS
Sunday Feb. 13, 10:40pm @ Sneaky Dee's
First played WL 207
www.myspace.com/thetwokoreas
These guys have done all right for a bunch of critics. Toronto's über-music-nerds went and formed Toronto's best pseudo-Estonian "Neu-wave" drinking band of 2004, with songs about retarded architects and rock stars dying at age 54. Their first disc is set for a "soft release."
The Two Koreas' Top Five
1. Babies (e.g., Isobel and Hamish Grant)
2. Trucker hats for babies
3. Stuff (the general collection of ephemera, and the magazine)
4. NNNN
5. The reunification of the two Koreas

GHOSTLIGHT
Sunday Feb. 13, 10pm @ Sneaky Dee's
As Mean Red Spiders, first played WL 1, last played WL Zine Fundraiser 1.
www.meanredspider.com
See interview here.

Adam/Frozen/Moutray/Co-pilot (MRS/Ghostlight/Greige):
1. The music
2. The love
3. The bud
4. The lady
5. The babies!

DOC PICKLES
Sunday Feb. 13, 9:20pm @ Sneaky Dee's
First played WL 75, last played WL 227
Now freed from the corporate clutches of bourgeouis bohemia, Wavelength co-founder Doc Pickles returns to the role he was born to play: as our Sunday night MC! Tonight, he will treat us to some of his criminally unheard, four-track-driven indie-pop.

Doc Pickles' Top Five shows:
5. Do Make Say Think - it was the Wavelength after Sept. 11, 2001, and nobody was sure what to make of the cultural tidal wave that had just swept through every aspect of what used to be reality. This show was the first public gathering in the western hemisphere that spared the platitudes and ripped into delivering an unforgettable in-the-moment moment, while Sir Paul was still putting the finishing touches on his "let's all wallow together for a moment" anthem.
4. Whatever's going on next week at Wavelength.
3. GbV at the Phoenix in 1995, opening for Urge Overkill. Most of the audience left after Guided by Voices and were treated to encore presentation of Bob Pollard being thrown out. Bastards. I've never been back to the Phoenix since that show.
2. The Harmony Picnic, Cherry Beach, summer 1999.
1. Wavelength 50, breaking my ankle after night one, returning on a broomstick for night two. On the third day, I went to Toronto Western Hospital, where I was knocked out so they could reset my bone, and I still reported for duty on night three.