In the absence of concert listings, my regular Monday dispatches have fallen off. After bringing some life to the blog with the "bumping into" series, I figure I should get back in the groove. I'm guessing that this will be a bit like what used to get shoved into the end of the post when I was doing listings — some bandcamp suggestions, nods to a few livestreams, and sundry community notes (email me if you have anything that needs broadcast in the latter category!). Plus maybe a look back through the MFS archives.
Community notes:
- Another venue update, following on the couple posted here last week: it looks like the space hosting The Mod Club, which announced its demise last year, has new management and a new name (The Axis Club). (It looks like news of this came out back in April, but it didn't cross my path 'til I saw some concert announcements this week, so maybe it's news to you as well.)
Livestream nation:
- Exit Points returns on Wednesday (June 30th) with another pair of ad hoc electroacoustic ensembles, as well as the customary online collaborative jam. Expect to hear from Fae Sirois, Marc-Alexandre Chan, and thispatcher in the first set and Dey Kim, Shay, Tyson Headon and Edward Kennington in the second. Free to stream on Twitch (with donations accepted!) — the hub for all relevant info can be found here.
- Not "live" in the sense of "happening while you watch", but this set from the outskirts of Niamey, Niger with Mdou Moctar and his band comes highly recommended. The set is in celebration of the release of the tasty new Afrique Victime album — and under current circumstances, it's unclear when we'll be seeing international superstars like Moctar (one of the great fiery guitarists of our time) on local stages.
Feat. Karen Ng:
- By a happy coincidence, two new songs popped up on my feeds this week with guest appearances by Karen Ng. A new single from Lee Paradise has Ng on sax and flute (as well as vox from Blunt Chunks), while a pre-album single drop from New Chance's highly-anticipated Real Time has some more smokey sax licks — alongside a highly-inventive video from Vic Cheong that gets a lot of mileage from some lo-tech staging.
It happened this week...
- ...on June 30, 2009 at the Silver Dollar Room.
- ...on July 4, 2009 at Harbourfront Centre.
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