Monday Roundup #261

Community notes:

• Exciting movie night! Luka Kuplowsky will be presenting Memory of Light, his study of The Cluttertones, "part observational documentary and part experimental-concert film", on Thursday evening (January 15th) at Innis Town Hall.

• On Sunday, February 22nd, The Punk Talks Series presents an afternoon with Mickey Skin and Linda Lee (of Canada's first all-female punk band, the Curse), and Cleave Anderson (who has been the drummer of a number of early Toronto and Hamilton punk bands, including the Battered Wives, Viletones, and Forgotten Rebels). Moderated by Liz Worth (author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond), tickets are $10 ("includes refreshments", and a post-event sildscreening workshop).

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Concert announcements:

Agnes [Bea Labikova/Mira Martin-Gray/Doug Tielli/Kevin Turcotte/Mark Zurawinski/Rob Clutton] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-20 (Tuesday) [more info]

Experimental Link (feat. Sard / Raf Reza / Dastgâmachine) / BSMT 254 2026-01-23 (Friday). $22.60 (early bird)/$28.25 (1st release)/$33.90 (general admission), 19+. [FB event]

people | places | records Residency (feat. Cristina Lord / Nick Norton) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-24 (Saturday) [FB event]

Imaginary North and The Ambient PiNG present Ambient Afternoon (feat. Kilometre Club / Heart Map Ambient Ensemble / Daena Delam) / Society Clubhouse 2026-01-25 (Sunday – 2 p.m.). $10, all ages/family friendly [more info]

Discoveries Vol.8 with Musical Host Batuki Music (feat. Nii Osabu / Dipo / Sintayehu “Mimi” Zenebe & Abebe Fikade / David J. / Ruth Mathiang / Ṣẹwà) / Hugh's Room 2026-01-29 (Thursday). $21.82. [FB event]

The Ryan Driver Sextet [Moon CD release] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-30 (Friday) [FB event]

The Cross Sea [album release] (Praises / Isla Craig / Catholic Wilt) / The Baby G 2026-02-20 (Friday). $21.53, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Toronto Electronic Music Open Mic (feat. Ben Green / Gruve Collective / Ross Edmonds / LoHeadroom / Caspar Project / Antibes / fame diet / Inchoate / Extinction On Schedule / Giant Floating Head) / Handlebar 2026-01-12 (Monday) [more info]

Mike DeiCont Trio [Mike DeiCont/Eric West/Leland Whitty] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-01-12 (Monday) [more info]

mdbm [Michael White/Maggie Keogh/Don Rooke/Blake Howard] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-14 (Wednesday) [more info]

Labyrinth Ontario presents Makam Nights (feat. Alejandro Franco Briones & Mehrdad Jafari Raad) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2026-01-15 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Mehdi Rostami / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-16 (Friday – early) [more info]

Long Winter 14.3 (feat. liz uninvited [album release] / Kai Samuels / bridge of sand. / 999ADJ) / It's OK* Studios 2026-01-16 (Friday). $PWYC ($20 advance tickets skip the line). [more info]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents BPM (Big Percussion Meeting) (feat. Aiyun Huang / David Schotzko / Germaine Liu / Joe Sorbara / Mark Zurawinski / Mira Martin-Gray) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-01-16 (Friday). $pwyc

A Soulful Wintry Evening With Kurdish Kamāncha (feat. Shahriyar Jamshidi) / Burdock Music Hall 2026-01-17 (Saturday). $22.60 advance/$30 door. [FB event]

Our Full Selves (feat. ROSINX) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-17 (Saturday) [more info]

ur audio visual presents (feat. Heraclitus Akimbo [concert and lecture celebrating the release of I know what I have experienced and I know what it has meant to me, an album of music for solo lap steel guitar] / Charter of the Forest [Isla Craig/Karsten Stryker/Kurt Newman/Pete Johnston/Blake Howard]) / The Sun Room @ 918 Bathurst 2026-01-18 (Sunday – 4 p.m.). $pwyc. [FB event]

Sonomadic Improv Presents: Singing with Freedom (Ayelet Rose Gottlieb [workshop] / K2 [Jonathan Kay & Kayla Milmine] / "Open Jam") / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2026-01-18 (Sunday). $PWYC, snacks included. [FB event]

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It happened this week...

• ...on January 13, 2019 at Array Space (Somewhere There Presents: Paul Newman at 55).

Paul Newman & Brian Abbott - Toad Cricket Lear [part 1]

• ...on January 16, 2019 at Burdock Music Hall.

Cluttertones - Leeways Part 4 + 5

• ...on January 17, 2019 at The Canadian Music Centre (Riparian Acoustics/CMC Presents).

Alex Samaras - Everybody Says Don't

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