Concert Listings Roundup #348

You can read more about why I'm doing listings here. Long story short: This curated and decidedly non-comprehensive list contains nothin' but shows that I am going to/would go to if I had more time.

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Special note:

For the past six-and-a-half years, I've faithfully been cranking out these listings every Monday. Because of the unprecedented situation we now find ourselves in, this week's listings remain blank. Stay safe and sheltered.

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Community corner:

• Pamenar Café, a steadfastly comforting retreat in Kensington Market — and host to some wonderful back patio concerts in the summertime — suffered an electrical fire in their basement last week, sustaining a great amount of property damage. A heavy blow on top of the revenue lost during the present state of closure, a gofundme has been established to help them through this.

• A gofundme has also been set up to support Likely General and the artistic community it has been nurturing on Roncesvalles under Brooke Manning's guidance. Open-hearted, inclusive spaces have been having a tough go of it in this city for awhile now, and the current situation is squeezing things even tighter.

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Bandcamp corner:

• "The Feelings We're Feeling", a new piece from beard closet, bristles with a sense of the anxiety that's prevalent in these times right now — but also faces it with measured restraint instead of unbridles noisy panic.

• A new collection of "pleasant by-products", Doomsquad's Spandrels Volume 2 has some lushly-ambient explorations as well as a tasty groover to close.

• The collection of achingly lush beautiful ballads that Scott Hardware has been working on for quite a while now has finally been issued on Telephone Explosion.

• Allison Cameron has put her AC Band's bandcamp account to Name-Your-Price for the month of April, making it a prime opportunity to grab her 2010 Rat-Drifting release, surely an under-acknowleged classic album from T.O.'s creative music community. Flanking Cameron's musical bricolage (banjo, keyboards, tapes, harmonicas, electronics), this is also a slyly-amazing guitar album, thanks to Stephen Parkinson and Eric Chenaux.