by Tiana Feng It may have been Valentine's Day yesterday night but I ditched the boyfriend and spent it at Parts & Labour for the opening night of Wavelength 13. The guy/girl ratio in the venue was 5: 1 for a night of loud punk music. Slow-Pitch, the only non-band of the night started things off smoothly with some turntabling. He explained that most of his set was improvised, and even wished he could have [...]
How do you like to spend your Valentine's Day? The last few years have proven to me that a cold beer and a good punk show are all I need, with or sans the special someone. There's nothing like losing yourself in a sweaty, loud, rockfest. And though the bands at Wavelength Music Festival THIRTEEN's first night on Thursday weren't all punk bands, there was enough loud representation that I feel justified chalking this night up to the punk Valentine's Day count. Stiegls were running high at The Shop under Parts and Labour, and [...]
Ali Biddell It hadn't occurred to me until just now, but there's a bit of a parallel between this site, right here, and Wavelength . They got a couple years' head start on me, but both of us spent a solid decade servicing the Toronto independent music community - Wavelength with a weekly concert series that helped introduce the city and the world to much of the amazing music being produced in the 416 and 905, and chromewaves by, um, going to shows and taking pictures. Okay, perhaps the scale is a little different, but both of us also [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Chromewaves The end of Toronto's indie scene-building Wavelength weekly music series last year wasn't intended to be a cap on things. Instead, last February marked the beginning of a transition year for the collective behind Wavelength and now the beloved local series is back to celebrate their 11th anniversary with the apty-titled ELEVEN festival. "Last year's festival was amazing," Wavelength organizer Jonathan Bunce, [...]
Toronto - Four Corners is a pretty interesting concept for a concert. There is no stage. There are no opening acts or headliners. Instead, there are four bands, each set up in one corner of the room and taking turns every couple of songs, culminating in all four bands jamming together. For this, the second edition, the bands involved were Lullabye Arkestra , Quest For Fire , Sun Ra Ra Ra , and Rituals . Rituals were up first and I've got to say they didn't really make much of an impression on me at all. [...]
The holiday slowdown has ended, and 2011 is in full-swing this week with a loaded edition of BlogTO's Audio & Video roundup, which includes a new song from Young Governor, a Memoryhouse mixtape, Pete Vandyk covers Jimmy Reed's "What You Want Me to Do," and two tracks from Hooded Fang. Video has equally as much content with new stuff from The Creepshow and Sweet Thing, Freedom or Death on AUX TV, a Southern Souls session with Ben Somer, and the lovely Feist goes in-depth about her new doc and art in general with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's Q, and I've [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , New Music , Canada Toronto's Lullabye Arkestra report that life is good as a duo, despite a few logistical difficulties. "So far it's been really great," singer-bassist Kat Taylor-Small tells Spinner on the line from the band's Chicago tour stop. "It does make the drives a little harder though. When there's two people you feel like you need to stay up for the driver, so there's a lot less sleeping in the van." The hard rocking outfit, which also [...]
Chronic Youth have lined up a SXSW day party that is a nice mix of hardcore, metal and indie rock. The free party will take place on Thursday, March 18 at East End Tattoo at noon. Check out more details below. Find out more of our suggested SXSW 2010 events
In anticipation of their upcoming US tour with fellow Vice artists Pierced Arrows & a run of headlining dates across Canada (all dates after the jump), the Toronto-based duo Lullabye Arkestra... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
You know, we have got to thank Portland, Oregon sometime. Not only has it bestowed some great bands/artists on us like The Wipers, Gossip, M. Ward, Dandy Warhols and Courtney Love. But, Pierced Arrows were on the scene, long before we even had these artists on our radar. And you know what, they are pretty freaking great. With a balls-out sound between garage rock and punk, Toody and Fred Cole along with drummer Kelly Halliburton play rock they way it's suppose to be done. So with the upcoming North American tour, what's it like for Toody Cole getting [...]
VICE Records artists Pierced Arrows and Lullabye Arkestra have announced their upcoming North American tours beginning late February, extensively covering North America over a series of shows together and on their own as well. Kicking off their tour February 23rd in Fargo, ND, ex-Dead Moon tour veterans Pierced Arrows will work their way east, eventually [...]
Enjoy 'Icy Hands' below. Be certain to watch 'We Fuck The Night' here. MP3: Lullabye Arkestra - We Fuck The Night
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Norman Wong Even though he coined it himself, I often wonder if Joel Gibb regrets encouraging the use of "gay church folk music" as a description for the music of The Hidden Cameras . Certainly they got a lot of mileage out of it in the band's earlier days, as it was both attention grabbing and accurate, but now, four albums in, it probably deserves to be retired. It's not that it's no longer descriptive - Gibb is still gay (one assumes), it's still music and it's still built on foundations of folk and church traditions [...]
Norman Wong Even though he coined it himself, I often wonder if Joel Gibb regrets encouraging the use of "gay church folk music" as a description for the music of The Hidden Cameras . Certainly they got a lot of mileage out of it in the band's earlier days, as it was both attention grabbing and accurate, but now, four albums in, it probably deserves to be retired. It's not that it's no longer descriptive - Gibb is still gay (one assumes), it's still music and it's still built on foundations of folk and church traditions [...]
kat taylor-small und justin small sind seit 2001 am start. auf constellation records hatten sie bereits mit "ampgrave" eine erste duftnote hinterlassen. ab heute gibt es keine lügen mehr, hört rein! verdammt! lullabye arkestra / vice records lullabye arkestra - get nervous lullabye arkestra - voodoo lullabye arkestra - icy hands
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Filed under: You Oughta Know , Canada There's something enchanting about two people in love playing dirty rock 'n' roll songs. Justin Small and Kay Taylor-Small are Lullabye Arkestra , a band born of a mutual love of heavy music and each other -- and their latest release, the bare-bones 'Threats/Worship' on Vice Records, is a swaggering, half-hour testament to both. Formed in 2001, the band pumped out a self-released CD within a year, but waited until 2006 to issue their proper debut full-length, 'Ampgrave.' [...]
Lullabye Arkestra sure knows how to fucking rock! This exclusive footage shows the duo performing "Voodoo" live as well as giving some insight behind it's meaning. Who knew so much... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
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