Saturday, July 7th, 2012
Sean MetelerkampWho: Spoek Mathambo
What: Sub Pop-signed, South Africa-based electro-rock-hip hop futurist/visionary who released his second album Father Creeper in March.
Why: Spoek was here in March during Canadian Musicfest just after the album came out, but he’s back and demands your undivided attention.
When: Monday, July 16, 2012
Where: The Drake Underground in Toronto (19+)
Who else: Dunno.
How: Tickets for the show are $15 in advance but courtesy of Union, I’ve got two pairs of passes to give away for the show. To enter, email me at contests AT chromewaves.net with “I want to see Spoek Mathambo” in the subject line and your full name in the body. Contest closes at midnight, July 12.
What else: The Quietus and The Arts Desk have interviews from earlier this Spring.
MP3: Spoek Mathambo – “Let Them Talk”
MP3: Spoek Mathambo – “Put Some Red On It”
Video: Spoek Mathambo – “Control”
Saturday, July 7th, 2012
Canvas MediaWho: Trust and Light Asylum
What: Two duos from Toronto and New York, respectively, who share a penchant for electronic beats, dramatic vocals, and ’80s goth chic.
Why: Both acts released their debut albums this year – TRST and Light Asylum – so why not team up for a tour?
When: Friday, July 13, 2012
Where: The Great Hall in Toronto (19+)
How: Tickets for the show are $12.50 in advance but courtesy of Embrace, I’ve got two pairs of passes to give away for the show. To enter, email me at contests AT chromewaves.net with “I want to Trust Light Asylum” in the subject line and your full name in the body. Contest closes at midnight, July 10.
MP3: Light Asylum – “A Certain Person”
Video: Trust – “Sulk”
Saturday, July 7th, 2012
FacebookWho: Tycho
What: San Francisco-based DJ/producer/electronic artist Scott Hansen, who deftly blends beats with live instrumentation on last year’s Dive.
Why: He already came through town in January, but Dive is much more a Summer record than Winter and if you hadn’t noticed we’ve had Summer to spare lately. A little (electro) chill-out is very much in order.
When: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Where: The Hoxton in Toronto (19+)
Who else: Portland’s Onuinu supports.
How: Tickets for the show are $15 in advance but courtesy of Embrace, I’ve got two pairs of passes to give away for the show. To enter, email me at contests AT chromewaves.net with “I want to see Tycho” in the subject line and your full name in the body, and have that in to me before midnight, July 8.
What else: Hey Reverb has an interview with Hansen.
MP3: Tycho – “Hours”
MP3: Tycho – “Coastal Brake”
MP3: Tycho – “The Daydream”
MP3: Tycho – “Dive”
MP3: Tycho – “Lapse”
Friday, July 6th, 2012
ALL CAPS! island fest lines up A Place To Bury Strangers and Yamantaka//Sonic Titan; cares not one whit for your noise regulation bylaws
Emily BergerWhile it’s true that Toronto’s days of having a BIG annual music festival out on the islands appear to be over – the locally-grown, Wavelength-affiliated ALL CAPS fest has been more then happy to step in for those needing to combine a ferry crossing with live music to make their Summer worthwhile.
Since their inaugural edition in 2009, they’ve put together bills that have showcased a lot of local and a little bit of imported talent, combined with art and film components and as of last year, overnight camping but this year’s lineup – set to take place on August 11 and 12 at Gibraltar Point – has quite surprised me with its all-out aggressiveness.
The first night is headlined by Montreal’s Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, whom I’m not going to try and find new words to describe but were a real highlight of NXNE, with an eclectic undercard consisting of Maylee Todd, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Tyvek, Wet Hair, and Esther Grey. The Sunday night will be closed out by Brooklyn noise-and-strobe freaks A Place To Bury Strangers, following sets from Lioness, OG Melody, Young Mother, and Canadian Winter. Many/most of these acts are only peripherally known to me – if that – so I suggest checking out the Wavelength site for capsule descriptions, but I will say that they won’t be boring. Unless you’re bored of interesting things.
A limited number of two-day passes including camping on the island are available for $65, two-day passes that force you to go home and sleep in your own bed on Saturday night will run you $30 and single-day tickets are a very reasonable $17; ferry tickets are not included in the price. They go on sale on July 12 but you can also get them now via the IndieGogo fundraising site. And while Gibraltar Point is way on the other end of the islands from the residences at Ward’s Island and faces out into the lake, I can’t help but hope that there’s a southwesterly wind that wafts just a little bit of Oliver Ackermann’s sonic armageddon over their cottages. Just a little.
Guitar World, The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, and CultureMob talk to Ackermann about the new APTBS album Worship.
MP3: A Place To Bury Strangers – “You Are The One”
MP3: Lioness – “The Night”
MP3: Choir! Choir! Choir! – “I Want It That Way”
Video: Yamanta//Sonic Titan – “Hoshi Neko”
Video: Maylee Todd – “Heart Throb”
Video: OG Melody – “Change Gon Come”
Interview and The Georgia Straight profile Japandroids, who’ve made another couple track from Celebration Rock available to download.
MP3: Japandroids – “The Nights Of Wine And Roses”
MP3: Japandroids – “Younger Us”
Daytrotter has posted a session with Memoryhouse.
Rolling Stone and NPR profile Metric, bringing it home to the Air Canada Centre on November 14.
Brightest Young Things and The AV Club talk to Spencer Krug of Moonface.
Exclaim gets Brian Borcherdt to discuss the state of Holy Fuck even as he focuses on his new project Dusted, whose debut Total Dust is out on Tuesday, is available to stream now at Chart, and they open up for Chad VanGaalen at The Mod Club on July 26.
MP3: Dusted – “(Into The) Atmosphere”
Stream: Dusted / Total Dust
Beatroute and Chart have interviews with Vancouver’s Chains Of Love.
NPR gets into Americana with Neil Young, adding a World Cafe session on top of the Fresh Air interview.
The Mountain Goats celebrate their 40,000th Twitter follower by giving away an old demo track.
MP3: The Mountain Goats – “All Devils All Devils”
That first preview of the new Antlers EP Undersea is now available to download. It’s out July 24.
MP3: The Antlers – “Drift Dive”
DIY and Prefix have features on Dirty Projectors, in town tonight at the Danforth Music Hall.
Spinner talks to Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Dirty Projectors streams, stumps, Swing
Jason Frank RothenbergIt’s a matter of public record – or at the very least Google index – that I was no fan of Dirty Projectors’ last record Bitte Orca, even though objectively speaking it was obviously one of the albums of 2009. However, one of the nice things about a band as obviously talented – no way am I arguing that point – and creatively restless as they is that each new album is akin to a blank slate.
So yeah, I’m giving their new one Swing Lo Magellan – which is out next Tuesday but now available to stream a week early – a fair shake, and happily it doesn’t sound nearly as fussy or overthought as Orca did. No, that’s not nearly an endorsement, but it’s a start. Give it a listen for yourself, and while you’re at it maybe read some of the feature interviews that bandleader Dave Longstreth has been giving out in advance of the record’s release. They’re on the cover of this month’s Exclaim with an additional feature, a Q&A to go with an album stream at The New York Times, back-and-forths at ArtInfo, NOW, The Irish Times, and MTV Hive, and a long piece at Pitchfork. He also talks to Interview about the Hi Custodian short film which will be released later this Summer and is meant to thematically accompany the new record. Odds of it being incomprehensible are good to great.
Dirty Projectors are in town this week for a show at the Danforth Music Hall on July 6.
MP3: Dirty Projectors – “Dance For You”
MP3: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger”
Video: Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger”
Stream: Dirty Projectors / Swing Lo Magellan
Trailer: Hi Custodian
Eternal Summers were just here for NXNE, it’s true, but their new album Correct Behavior wasn’t nearly out then – July 24 is still a ways off – so it’s eminently logical that they’d schedule a return engagement after it was out, which is what they’ve done. They’re at The Garrison on August 7, tickets $11.
MP3: Eternal Summers – “Millions”
Phil Elverum isn’t a guy who seems to like to spend a lot of time on the road, at least not far from his Washington state home base. I could be mistaken but I don’t think he’s been through town since Fall 2008 in support of Lost Wisdom, his collaboration with Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire; his last time through as as Mount Eerie solo was May 2007 and he’s not been back since, despite having released a couple records since then. But if promoting one album isn’t quite enough incentive, apparently promoting two is – having put out Clear Moon back in May and with a companion album Ocean Roar set to come out September 4, he’s finally coming back to town – he’ll be at The Great Hall on September 10 with a full band in tow, tickets $15 in advance.
Stream: Mount Eerie – “Pale Lights” (excerpt)
Stream: Mount Eerie – “Lone Bell”
Stream: Mount Eerie – “House Shape”
You might think that with no less than four visits in 2011 – one headlining show in the Spring and three others supporting The Decemberists in February, Explosions In The Sky in October, and The National in December – that Wye Oak would have had their fill of Toronto for a while. Well apparently nine months is as long as they could wait because they’ve scheduled a show here at The Horseshoe for September 17, tickets $12.50. One assumes that with all that touring, they’ve not had time to write let alone record a follow up to last year’s Civilian, but if you’re hankering to hear something new there is a track they’ve recorded for an Adult Swim compilation that’s available to stream.
MP3: Wye Oak – “Holy, Holy”
Stream: Wye Oak – “Spiral”
Over at The AV Club, Father John Misty record a lovely cover of The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize?” for their Undercover series. Father John Misty are at The Opera House opening for Youth Lagoon on July 12.
Spin is streaming another tune from Fang Island’s new record Major, due out July 24.
Stream: Fang Island – “Seek It Out”
NPR has a World Cafe session from The Shins. They open up for The Black Keys at The Molson Amphitheatre on August 3.
Divine Fits – the new band from Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown – have announced that their debut album A Thing Called Divine Fits will be out August 28; stream the first track from it below.
Stream: Divine Fits – “My Love Is Real”
Rolling Stone has an interview with J Mascis about the new Dinosaur Jr album I Bet On Sky, the first single from which is available to stream. The album is out September 18 and they kick off their Fall tour in support of it with a three-night stand at Lee’s Palace on September 24, 25, and 26.
Stream: Dinosaur Jr – “Watch The Corners”
Pitchfork has details on the new End Of Daze EP coming from Dum Dum Girls End Of Daze on September 25.
Clash talks to Beach House, in town at the Kool Haus on October 18.
Spinner talks to Beachwood Sparks about getting back together for their first album in over a decade in the just-released The Tarnished Gold.
NPR welcomes M. Ward to their World Cafe for a session.
Drowned In Bells catches up with Sleigh Bells.
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