Monday Roundup #153

Concert announcements:

DAS RAD (Crying High Troglos / 60 Bux) / BSMT 254 2024-01-20 (Saturday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Swanherds [rebecca bruton solo] (Kurt Newman) / 918 Bathurst – The Sun Room 2024-01-23 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Ichi-Bons (Daddy Long Legs / catl.) / Lee's Palace 2024-02-09 (Friday). $23.75, 19+. [FB event]

Cluttertones / Array Space 2024-02-16 (Friday) [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Colin Fisher Trio [Colin Fisher/Josh Cole/Jeff Luciani] / The Emmet Ray 2023-12-18 (Monday – 6:30). $10-$15

A Benefit for Toronto Palestine Solidarity Community Defence Fund (feat. LAL / Holofernes Head / Oxalis / Scooter Jay) / Horseshoe Tavern 2023-12-18 (Monday). $pwyc, 19+. [more info]

Tim Posgate Trio [Tim Posgate/Rob Clutton/Aidan McConnell] / The Rex 2023-12-19 (Tuesday – 5:30 p.m.). $10. [more info]

Music Hosted by Karen Ng (feat. Samuel Hall / Parmela Attariwala / Ben Boye) / Wenona Lodge 2023-12-19 (Tuesday)

Marilyn Lerner Special Appearances Residency (feat. Queen Mab [Lori Freedman/Marilyn Lerner]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-12-19 (Tuesday)

Sarah Greene presents (feat. Sarah Greene [band set] / Fortunato Durutti Marinetti [solo]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-12-20 (Wednesday – early) [FB event]

Henri Fabergé quashes Creskins ["an evening of punk comedy rock opera festivities"] (feat. Henri Fabergé & co.) / Monarch Tavern 2023-12-20 (Wednesday). $22.63. [tickets + more info]

Copernicus ["Copernicus is a new composition by Paul Newman. It combines elements of performance and sound installation and lasts from sunrise to sunset on the Winter solstice. Copernicus is quiet, contemplative and minimalist in nature."] (feat. Brian Abbott/Sara Constant/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Paul Newman/Jamie Thompson) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2023-12-21 (Thursday – 7:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m.) [more info]

Thin Edge New Music Collective presents: Dark Flower Album Release Party + Fundraiser [compositions by Linda Catlin Smith] (feat. Thin Edge New Music Collective) / Array Space 2023-12-21 (Thursday). $17.31 for entrance, $27.96 for entrance and physical album [FB event]

Winter Solstice Tour (feat. Jennifer Castle) / The Great Hall 2023-12-21 (Thursday). $40.18, 19+. [FB event]

Arthur Bull/Lori Freedman/Scott Thomson/Jean Martin/John Oswald / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-12-22 (Friday). $pwyw

the science of what? holiday spectacular (feat. the science of what? [Mingjia Chen & Justin Orok] with Maggie Keogh/Carolina Lopez/Micaela Rae/Ania Zarzycki/Patrick Dilkie/Kohen Hammond/Racha Moukalled/Devin Patten/Audrey Vandendriesschen) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-12-23 (Saturday) [more info]

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It happened this week...

• ...on December 21, 2013 at The Imperial Pub's back room.

Aldcroft-Fisher-Gennaro - [excerpt from first piece]

• ...on December 23, 2013 at Handlebar.

Kappa Chow - I Want Out

[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.]

Recording: Protruders

Artist: Protruders

Songs: In Line + Cold Energy + Hot Glue

Recorded at Monarch Tavern, October 31, 2016.

Protruders - In Line + Cold Energy + Hot Glue

At some point over the past year, the mighty Kappa Chow disappeared, to be supplanted by Protruders. Musically, that has been accompanied by straight-line evolution more than any sort of radical reinvention, meaning there's still plenty exuberant garage-punk momentum on stage. Careening through songs like a subway on a crash course (one of the lyrical topics essayed here) and gaining momentum throughout, this set basically followed the track laid out on the first side of their tape.

[There'll be some different modes of propulsion being explored when No Parking ("follicles flaked from The Protruders' skin mass") take the stage at Dundas Video on Tuesday (December 6th) at the next Track Could Bend.]

Recording: Kappa Chow

Artist: Kappa Chow

Songs: Sleep All Day + I Want Out

Recorded at Handlebar, December 23, 2013.

Kappa Chow - Sleep All Day

Kappa Chow - I Want Out

Full review to follow. Rooted in the Killer Haze crew and sporting a flexible lineup (their tape features two different iterations recorded in Sackville and Montréal), this is pure DIY slop-punk, but more "K Records cuddly" than "lurching menace". There's a joyful sense of play at hand, with both audience and band liable to start chanting "kappa chow!" to start (or end) any given song.