Tonight's show will be this awesome....
By jonny ~ Posted Saturday, September 24th 2011We're celebrating the release, tonight, of the new album by one of our favourite local bands, Hooded Fang. Tosta Mista is a real surprise, a spooky blast of '60s surf garage inspired rockitude, but without sacrificing the lush, melodious indie-pop that put their debut Album on endless rotation around Wavelength HQ. And did you know? Tosta Mista's title comes from a sandwich - a Portuguese grilled ham-and-cheese panini served in all the bakeries along the Dundas strip near the Garrison, and also near the location of tonight's show, the Academy of Lions Crossfit Gym. And because we want to give you the energy to enjoy the party all night, our friends at SkyBlueSky Sandwich Company - named after a Wilco song - will be coming by to serve up some of their gourmet sammiches - including Tosta Mistas. A sandwich place named after a song serving a sandwich that gave a name to an album. Someone please write a thesis on the relationship between indie-rock and sandwiches, right now. Completely unrelated to Portuguese paninis, Tosta Mista's album artwork features an awesome array of Mexican wrestling masks, and we're celebrating that fact by screening some Lucha Libre films as hilarious eye candy. It will hopefully also inspire you to take out a gym membership at Academy of Lions, and start working off all that beer and bread first thing Sunday morning.
Doors open at 7pm, the live acts also include roots-rap-reggae artist Wio-K and HF's Daps Records' labelmates Odonis Odonis, Wowee Zonk will have art installations spread around the space, General Chaos Visuals will be illuminating things, we're serving Steam Whistle beer, Academy of Lions is located at 1245 Dundas St. W., it's $12 at the door (or $10 if you make it to Rotate or Soundscapes today), and the show will go on rain or shine - don't worry, the party will move inside if it's threatening to rain.