Put The Rifle down are playing Wavelength and they answered a bunch of Kate C's questions below. Unfortunately the intro begs to be brief because she has a bitching head cold and the typing is a-hurting. They seem like nice dudes so while their website sucks (sorry) I'm sure you can chat them up or maybe grind with them a little on the dance floor and they'll open right up to you. PTRD members are Anthony Bruno, Michael John Countryman and Mark Cassidy, although Michael was MIA for this interview. They are totally committed to spreading the gospel of wiggling, and are more dancey-rock than rockey dance, so don't be scared off.

Who are you and what do you do?

Anthony: We are the 3-person manifestation (drums, bass and synth) of a single DJ whose sole purpose is to get peeps to dance.

Mark: We've been playing Toronto for the past year and a half, usually under our Program Selector dance parties, which we throw with our friends in Debaser.

What is the first music you remember hearing and liking?

A: Deep Purple, EMF and the Doctor Who theme song.
M: Peter and the Wolf on those little Fischer-Price record players. Or maybe the He-Man theme. It's a tough question.

What's happening in "the other half" of indie music in Toronto? (ie. outside of guitar-driven rock and these newfangled concept bands).

A: Not too much, as far as I can tell. I think this is because the genre - whether beats-y like us or angular like most others - owes so much to punk and new wave. The result is that the dance element that persists in indie music retains a prominent role for the guitar, as opposed to the drums. This not only tends toward an angular beat, but also a riffy melody that we feel is made more robust by the synth. As far as concepts go, we appreciate the bands that expand on them. For us, however, the main thing is a nice, dumb-as-a-cave-man beat that pays more attention to intuition than concept.

You and Debaser are playing the same Wavelength. Who is the yin and who is the yang?

A: Well, actually, a wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a wave pattern. So, if Debaser and us are, at least this February the 19th, on the same wavelength, the yin-yang duality does not apply. If the series was called Double Helix, then this duality would apply. For a double helix consists of two congruent helices with the same axis, differing by a translation along the axis. In this case, one could say that, while ours and Debaser's congruence or shared axis might be new wave or post-punk, their translation along this axis tends toward the brooding assault of Joy Division, while ours tends toward the melodic beats of New Order... mixed with Daft Punk and Underworld.

M: Yang.

What is Toronto's music scene lacking? What do you want to see more of?

M: If you're talking about all the music being made in Toronto at the moment, I don't think anything is lacking. All types of music are being made; it might be the case that it's not being presented in the best way to draw an audience, but it's there if you want to go find it. If you are talking about the 'œindie music scene'? then I can't really answer the question, because I don't really think it exists.

A: I don't think anything is lacking in the scene per se. The variety of genre-Frankensteins is astounding and we've been really impressed and inspired by the work ethic of bands we've met. The usual pitfalls of the business persist, to be sure, but I don't think that that would reflect on any scene as such. Toronto is vibrant, original and really expressive lately. All we'd like to see more of is dancing. I hear we could learn a thing or two from Montreal.

But Montreal is disgusting. What brand of stage banter can attendees expect from PTRD?

M: None, really. We don't stop between songs; we segue into them. Banter can be forced and awkward at best. Imagine if a DJ stopped between every song to talk to the crowd about current events or to make a random observation. If you want to hear me tell a cute story, come talk to me. I'm 5'9'' with brown hair and a big head.

A: Likely something in German.