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.
Livestream nation:
- Audiopollination's new season begins this week! As things (hopefully!) get safer, the series will be transitioning to livestreams and (hopefully!) live audiences, but this first outing is a prerecorded duo of Diane Roblin (keyboard) & Yvonne Ng (movement). You can catch it for free on Friday (November 12th) over at Array's youtube channel.
Concert listings:
- Labyrinth Ensemble with Lamia Yared / Aga Khan Museum 2021-11-13 (Saturday). $40 regular ($36 Museum Friends, $30 students and seniors, $20 artists). [FB event]
- The Ryan Driver Sextet / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2021-12-04 (Saturday). $11.62. [Attendance cap is sixty! Buy your ticket in advance!] [FB event]
Bandcamp corner:
- One point of comparison for Tigerbomb might be scrappy-era Guided By Voices, given a similar propensity for their frontmen to crank out piles of songs (ranging from fragments to epics). But while it seemed like Robert Pollard aspired to veer into writing his own version of, say, Quadrophenia, Duncan "Doc Pickles" MacDonell's sympathies are with The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, though any stabs at grandiosity compete with a love of playground chants and occasionally just hangin' out at the Centerpoint Mall. And while the tracks have a scrappy urgency, the thoughtful arrangements reveal this is no lo-fi toss-off. The upshot: poetic gestures in all sorts of directions, and you'll be humming the title track to yourself for days afterwards. [Bonus! keep scrolling down for some bonus Doc Pickles content!]
It happened this week...
- ...on November 9, 2012 at The Silver Dollar Room (Psych-Pop Toronto Release Party – Night 2).
- ...on November 10, 2013 at Handlebar (Crosswires).
The Jim Storie Juniors - Don't Take My Shortwave Away
[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]
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