Concert Listings Roundup #361

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.

Concert Listings Roundup #360

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.

Concert Listings Roundup #359

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:

• An important initiative has seen a coalition of small music venues across the country join together to make the case for ongoing support in the current crisis. With a reminder that "we were the first to close / we will be the last to reopen," the group has launched both a website and a petition so you can add your voice in the hopes that there will still be places to gather together once it is safe again for folks to do so.

Concert Listings Roundup #358

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.

Concert Listings Roundup #357

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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Bandcamp corner:

• I'm always happy when my recordings are of use to the artists. For this album, Sarah Peebles has used my recording of her album release concert for Delicate Paths (playing alongside Kyle Brenders and Nilan Perera) as well as some other electroacoustic works. It's a name-your-price download, but funds raised by this go to support Second Harvest.

• I also had a behind-the-scenes role in the preparation of this latest entry in the Music Gallery's bandcamp release series, but this 2018 recording of The Tatsuya Nakatani Gong Orchestra was captured by the skilled hands of MG sound tech Paul Hodge, and is, as such, far superior sounding to anything i could grab with my gear. Featuring an all-star lineup of local notables, who had spent the day exploring the gongs and shape of the piece under Nakatani's guidance.

• Meanwhile, Mystery & Wonder, the boutique label founded by Sound of the Mountain's Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen, has landed on bandcamp, so some exploration through their releases is most definitely recommended. (And nope, the pair of titles in this album are not entirely coincidental!)

Concert Listings Roundup #356

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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Livestream nation:

• if you will pardon the self-promotion, I should mention that I am celebrating the fifth anniversary of my drone project Heraclitus Akimbo, reflecting on and refracting the sounds that got me started. I'll be doing a livestream set on my youtube channel tonight (Monday, June 1st 2020). Steam will start shortly before 8 p.m. EDT, music will start shortly after the hour. Link will also be in the facebook event as well as the Heraclitus Akimbo FB page.

• Several friends of MFS will be involved with the COvER COvEN Microfest, which promises cover songs from "four bands across three time zones" including Invisible Out [Xuan Ye & Jason Doell], Century Egg, Zoë Alexis-Abrams and Regina's People Tanning. It goes down next Saturday (June 6th) at 3 p.m.

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Bandcamp corner:

• Hope you've been keeping a list of all the stuff you've been meaning to buy on Bandcamp! The site is once more waiving their revenue share on Friday (June 5th) from midnight to midnight PDT, so it's an excellent way to directly support musicians.

Concert Listings Roundup #355

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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Livestream nation:

• The first online edition of Michael Palumbo's Exit Points series was both musically satisfying and well-executed from the technical end of things — no surprise seeing that Palumbo has been working with remote live sound for a while before everyone started switching to livestream mode. Wednesday night's instalment features two electroacoustic improvising ensembles, the first with Mike Hansen, MJ Wright, Bea Labikova, Kavi and Michael Palumbo and the second with Heidi Chan, Yoni Newman, Kieran Maraj, Lex Metcalfe, and Curtis Whittaker. That'll be followed by shorter mini-sets remixing the performers plus some guests.

• The AMBiENT PiNG are taking their annual Drone Day live show online Saturday night, with a live set from dreamSTATE plus some specially-selected video works.

• Thin Edge New Music Collective is examining the possibilities of livestreams/distanced musicians with "heard from a distance", streaming on Sunday afternoon. The show will see pianist Cheryl Duvall and cellist Amahl Arulanandam performing works "from 45 seconds to 45 minutes long" by Dai Fujikura, Anna Hostman, Jocelyn Morlock, Nick Storring and Linda Catlin Smith.

Concert Listings Roundup #354

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. Covid-19 hasn't gotten any less deadly just because they've opened marinas and golf courses for the moneyed classes. The things we love to do — gathering together in small spaces, talking, singing — remain near the top of the list of ways of most efficiently spreading the virus, so let our separation show our solidarity.

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Bandcamp corner:

• In case you need some delicate folk-pop on a gusty, rainy day, Kieran Smyth & Mingjia Chen offer "a collection of songs that we hope can bring comfort to you & to those made vulnerable during this strange time".

Concert Listings Roundup #353

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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Livestream nation:

• The interviews in the Music Gallery at Home series are done for now, but music continues for a couple more weeks, with the amazing Nick Dourado interpreting Xuan Ye's "Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut Once in a While" and other pieces on Friday night.

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Bandcamp corner:

• Pantayo's long-awaited album is finally available from Telephone Explosion. The subtly-electronic kulintang grooves are a real joy to listen to, and quite handy for putting a spring in your step.

Concert Listings Roundup #352

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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Livestream nation:

• The Music Gallery at Home series continues tonight at 7 p.m. with history (featuring Anne Bourne in conversation with Kritty Uranowki and Jesse Locke), and on Friday with music (Slowpitchsound interpreting Xuan Ye's "Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut Once in a While" and other pieces).

• Beloved local record store Sonic Boom have been putting on a series of virtual in-stores, which continues on Thursday with a performance by Witch Prophet.

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Bandcamp corner:

• last week saw an excellent release from Eternalrealworld, the solo drone project from visual/sonic artist Ilyse Krivel. Living Water mixes field recordings (the Atlantic Ocean in Nova Scotia, a creek in northern Ontario, a sewer in Toronto) with electronic sounds that freeze and flow with meditative beauty.

• Thought lost on the seas of time and entropy, Bruce Peninsula's No Earthly Sound has finally arrived, nearly a decade (!) after 2011's Open Flames. Although the band has never quite gone away, they were mostly in an extended slumber, emerging on a soundtrack and occasional live dates. Anyone who caught them over the past few years will have heard some of these songs and will have a better sense of how the group has been evolving. Most significantly, this album repositions Misha Bower as a co-frontperson rather than a choir leader, and the recorded versions pivot away somewhat from the band's primordial call-and-response, singer-plus-chorus foundations. I'm sure the many friends that make up the choir will be on stage whenever the band is allowed to properly celebrate this album's release, but in the meantime the album's themes of togtherness-versus-aloneness and life-seeking-versus-death-seeking register with a new force in these times we are in.

• Although he hasn't spent much time in the spotlight in the time since Steamboat's dissolution, Matt McLaren has often been seen off to the side in many of the projects that spun out of that band's former ubiquity as backing band and rhythm section to a wide range of artists. This "solo" effort calls on many friends from those past efforts (including a laundry-list of MFS faves like Sandro Perri, Jay Anderson, Mike Smith, Blake Howard, Micheal Davidson, Christine Bougie, Ali Berkok, and Andrew Scott) for an instrumental affair that moves from shag-carpet-and-waterbed soul/funk to sophisticated yacht rock in the Tortoise/Sea and Cake vein.

Concert Listings Roundup #351

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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Livestream nation:

• The Music Gallery at Home series continues tonight at 7 p.m. with history (featuring Dr. Trichy Sankaran, in conversation with Suba Sankaran), and on Friday with music (Suzanne Kite interpreting Xuan Ye's "Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut Once in a While" and other pieces).

• Michael Palumbo's Exit Points electroacoustic improvisation series is heading online. Wednesday night sees two group collaborations with Gayle Young, Patrick O'Reilly, Michael Lynn and Michael Palumbo in the first and Paul Stillwell, Diane Roblin and Pouya Hamidi in the second. Details at the facebook event or on Palumbo's site.

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Bandcamp corner:

• Don't forget that Bandcamp is once more waiting their revenue share on purchases made on Friday! It'll be a great time to support the artists you dig!

Concert Listings Roundup #350

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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Livestream nation:

• Olivia Shortt promises "a weird and cat-filled multi-disciplinary livestream" today (Monday, April 20th) at 5 p.m. as part of the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance's series.

• The Music Gallery at Home series continues tonight at 7 p.m. with history (featuring Juliet Palmer in conversation with Laura Stanley), and on Friday with music (Naomi McCarroll-Butler interpreting Xuan Ye's "Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut Once in a While" and other pieces).

• On Sunday (April 26th) Cheryl Duvall will be live-streaming an hour of water-inspired piano solos by Emilie LeBel, Kotoka Suzuki and Anna Hostman as part of the #CanadaPerforms concert series. (It'll be going down on the National Arts Centre's page.)

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Bandcamp corner:

• Guelph's hurdy-gurdy master Ben Grossman is soundtracking our strange times with an album of Isolation Etudes, a "series of improvisations hastily recorded, un-edited, one take, trying to capture some of the various states during the spring of 2020".

• Jeff Sinibaldi (most often seen in live performance in these parts adding sounds to Del Stephen's performances) has a new collection from his Sick Days project, a low-key bricolage mixing field recordings, reverse delay, percussion and contact mic experiments into some pleasing rumbles.

• Released just before the Change In Things, Lina Allemano's solo Glimmer Glammer album offers an inventive mix of "trumpet, mutes & materials" in a series of joyful, spontaneous sound celebrations.

Concert Listings Roundup #349

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:

• After being forced to cancel the remaining events in its season, the Music Gallery has pivoted to find new ways to support artists and engage with its community. The Music Gallery at Home series begins tonight with David Dacks in conversation with Nilan Perera, the first of several interviews taking the ethos of their History Series. The music events are built around Xuan Ye's score-app "Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut Once in a While", which will be interpreted by a series of musicians, leading off this week with Germaine Liu. [customary disclosure: I am a member of the MG's Artistic Advisory Council.]

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Bandcamp corner:

• M. Joakim's Saturn City continues her series of synth EP's based on single-take recordings with no multi-tracking or editing. This time out she explores Pan, Saturn's innermost moon, with a quartet of typically tasty probes.

• After a series of demo-ish duo sketches that laid out some song ideas, The Archives of Eternity have presented an ensemble album that lives up to their incendiary live shows. Formed in the model of a classic jazz combo, the multi-generational band features percussive titans Mark Hundevad (vibes) and Mike Gennaro (percussion) alongside Patrick Smith (tenor sax) and Andrew Furlong (double bass) playing with plenty belly-fire.

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.

Concert Listings Roundup #347

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.

Concert Listings Roundup #346

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, I am choosing once again to leave this week's listings blank. Even if separation and the suspension of regular life are starting to grate, this is a vital week for everyone in Toronto to maintain social distancing discipline. The numbers are going to keep getting worse for a while yet, but foregoing social norms now will make a difference. Listen to music, go for a walk, take care of your own self.

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Bandcamp corner:

At the very least, I've had more time to spend with the music of friends and people in my community that I respect so much. Here's some of the things I've been digging: why not support these — or an artist that's important to you — by buying their music on bandcamp?

• Fiver moved the release of You Wanted Country? Vol. 1 up last week, unleashing a pretty spectacular EP. Pivoting from the investigations of the Audible Songs From Rockwood project, this is the first recorded evidence of Simone Schmidt's collaborations with Nick Dourado, Jeremy Costello and Bianca Palmer, who are here dubbed The Atlantic School Of Spontaneous Composition. (Although, to be sure, there's been some live manifestations of this powerful union.)

• Ian McPhedran's oeuvre — from his work in seminal local unit Ostrich Tuning and onward — has carefully balanced popcraft with drone and occasional disruptive noisebursts. It wouldn't be quite right to say that this new album smooths out the edges, but the tunefulness here feels a bit less veiled than in might have been in the past.

• Overleaf (the all-star improvising electroacoustic trio of Heidi Chan, Kayla Milmine and Mira Martin-Gray) return with their second album, once more mixing modular synth, soprano sax and no-input mixer noise into playful and wide-ranging sonic investigations. There's an increased feeling of freedom on this album, a sense of self-assuredness where the group can step out of their zones and play with new sounds and methods of presentation — as the avant-groovy remix of "Magic Spelling Bee" that closes things out proves.

• Del Stephen's recordings include elegant ambient atmospheres as well as gentle group improvisations, but his new Folk Music mixes his poetry with "instrumental collage pieces". Take this one out for company on your daily isolation stroll.

Concert Listings Roundup #345

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, I am choosing to leave this week's listings blank. Even if a show you were thinking about attending in this vital week isn't already formally cancelled, I would urge you to practice social distancing and stay away. If you haven't already had your fill of graphs and curves showing why this is important, I'd urge you to spend some time with a reputable news source.

Going to shows is (surprise!) important to me, and I have found it valuable for my mental and physical well-being. And the worries I feel for the spaces I love and the people that work there — many perched on the edge of precariousness that characterizes our socioeconomic moment — are certainly real. But normality is suspended, and for the time being, it's time for venues to be closed, and crowds to be dispersed.

In the coming days, there will be more people using the technology that we have as a positive force, and when I hear of any livestreams or other virtual gatherings, I will try and use this space to spread the word so that we can still feel the spark of togetherness and community. In the meantime, stay well, and find whatever mellowness you can.

Concert Listings Roundup #344

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.

Special update:

As of this writing (Friday March 13th), this list is suddenly very un-current. Many/most events over this weekend, and presumably for the next two weeks, are cancelled due to COVID-19. Check events/venues for updated information and check with Toronto Public Health for the latest advice regarding gathering together in public spaces.

Some updates have been made in the listings on the right-hand column, but they can't be considered fully up-to date.

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This week's noteworthy shows:

Ornate Presents (feat. Insensitive Granola [Aline Homzy/Michael Davidson/Alex Fournier/Germaine Liu]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-10 (Tuesday – early!) [FB event]

Taktus [Mirrored Glass album launch party!] / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2020-03-10 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Shotgun Jimmie [solo acoustic] / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2020-03-10 (Tuesday – PWYC! two shows, 8:30 p.m. + 10 p.m.!)

Most Popular Mic-Touching Sounds (feat. IPA / Laura McCoy) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-10 (Tuesday)

Northern Danger [Mike DeiCont/Rebecca Hennessy/Mack Longpre/Karen Ng/Chris Pruden] / Wenona Lodge 2019-03-10 (Tuesday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Brodie West Trio / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-11 (Wednesday – early!)

Never Was [Madeleine Ertel/Reknee Harrett/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Joe Sorbara] feat. Noah Franche-Nolan / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-11 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Planet of the Loops (feat. Dustin Good / Cheryl O / Jordana Talsky / Andrew Aldridge) / Roland Inspiration Centre 2020-03-12 (Thursday – free!) [FB event]

Friendly Rich & the Flower City Tire Fire [Friendly Rich/David Sait] (Olivia Shortt/Nikki Joshi/Tyler Cunningham) / Wenona Lodge 2020-03-12 (Thursday – PWYC!) [FB event]

meta.ksi presents: Muted Blast (.2) ["compositions and audiovisual installations by meta.ksi and affiliated composers... explores elements of prepared acoustic instruments, video, and machine learning. Pre and post-concert, there is a score exhibition, alongside fixed electronic pieces"] (feat. Jana Luksts/Adam Sherkin/Wesley Shen/Brad Cherwin/Phill Albert/Matti Pulkki/Michael Murphy) / 918 Bathurst 2020-03-12 (Thursday – PWYC, free beer/wine) [FB event]

Michael C. Duguay (Steven Lambke) / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2020-03-13 (Friday) [FB event]

Musica Universalis Monthly (feat. Eternal Real World / Kieran Adams/Hugh Marsh/Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-13 (Friday) [FB event]

Sarah Greene with Paul Kolinski / The Local Pub 2020-03-14 (Saturday – early show @ 5 p.m.!) [FB event]

Team Building (feat. Jeremy Costello / Tica Holiday / Nico Paulo / Christo Graham / Kurt Inder / Kyle Stephens) / Burdock Music Hall 2020-03-14 (Saturday – early show @ 5:30 p.m.! PWYC!) [FB event]

Phth (xLq) / The Music Gallery 2002-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

Audiopollination 81 (feat. Rick Sacks/John Oswald/David Sait / Nicholas Cooper/Del Stephen/Kalia Lenaghan / Ryan Kinney and Avant-Gardeners / Tiina Kiik/David Story/styrofoamNosebleedPrincess) / Array Space 2020-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

Paul Newman & Brian Abbott [album launch!] (Surf Grizzlies [Julian Anderson-Bowes/Kayla Milmine/Luan Phung]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

B.A. Johnston (First Base / The Mature Themes) / Junction City Music Hall 2020-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

Ace of Wands (Bonnie Trash / Zinnia / Velvet Bethany) / The Baby G 2020-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

Winter Matinee Residency (feat. Ronley Teper and The Lipliners) / The Dakota Tavern 2020-03-15 (Sunday – 3 to 5 p.m.! All ages, kids are free!) [FB event]

Eucalyptus / Hirut 2020-03-15 (Sunday – all ages + family-friendly! good eats available but not mandatory!) [FB event]

Diane Roblin Presents (feat. Glen Hall's Ossingtones) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-15 (Sunday – early!) [FB event]

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Mdou Moctar) / Velvet Underground [new venue!] 2020-03-15 (Sunday) [FB event]

Somewhere There Presents (feat. Parade [Stefan Hegerat/Laura Swankey/Chris Pruden]) / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-15 (Sunday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Rat-drifting (feat. Christopher Dela Cruz) / Array Space 2020-03-15 (Sunday) [more info]

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Add these to your calendar:

Reminder: This post only contains this week's updates — the full listings can always be found over on the right-hand sidebar!

Music Hosted by Karen Ng (feat. Astroturf Noise / Brian Abbott / Naomi McCarroll-Butler) / Wenona Lodge 2020-03-17 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Octopus Presents (feat. Julie Lassonde and Tilman Lewis [in 3 trio formations with Germaine Liu/Joe Sorbara/Mark Zurawinski] / The Imaginary Percussion Ensemble [Germaine Liu/Joe Sorbara/Mark Zurawinski) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-18 (Wednesday – early!) [FB event]

Clara Engel (unQuartet) / The Amsterdam Bicycle Club 2019-03-27 (Friday) [FB event]

Cosmic Homeostasis XIV / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-29 (Sunday – afternoon event, 3-5 p.m.! PWYC! family friendly!) [FB event]

Pete Carmichael Memorial Show ["a live and loving farewell to our great friend Pete Carmichael featuring performances by many of his peers"] (feat. The Diableros / The TryUmphs / Whirly Birds / The Volts / Another Blue Door / Winnies Concept / Cabana / Blinker The Star) / Monarch Tavern 2020-03-29 (Sunday – free event! doors @ 3 p.m., bands @ 4:30 p.m.!) [FB event]

Blessings (DPCD / Alex Lukashevsky) / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2020-03-29 (Sunday) [FB event]

TIO Celebrates Alan Bloor (feat. Toronto Improvisors Orchestra) / Array Space 2020-03-29 (Sunday) [FB event]

Mr. Joy [album release!] (C.R. Gillespie) / The Boat 2020-04-02 (Thursday) [FB event]

William Basinski / University of Toronto – The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design 2020-04-04 (Saturday – free!) [FB event]

Overleaf [album launch!] (Brian Abbott) / Gerrard Arts Space 2020-04-04 (Saturday) [FB event]

The Music Gallery's Departures Series (feat. Amirtha Kidambi & Lea Bertucci / Joyful Joyful / Memory Pearl) / Grand Canyon Theatre 2020-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]

Alphabet of Wrongdoing (feat. Daniela Gesundheit) / The Music Gallery 2020-04-19 (Sunday) [FB event]

Bruce Peninsula / The Garrison 2020-04-25 (Saturday) [FB event]

The Acid Underground Presents: Trip I (feat. SIANspheric / Tijuana Taxi / Laveda / Fires of Cheektowaga) / The Baby G 2020-05-13 (Wednesday) [FB event]

ROY [Peace, Love & Outer Space record release show!] (ZONES / Dr. Joy [Matthew "Doc" Dunn & Mr. Joy]) / The Baby G 2020-05-16 (Saturday) [FB event]

Concert Listings Roundup #343

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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Gigs of the week:

Women From Space Festival (feat. Elisa Thorn / Amy Brandon / Claire Yunjin Lee / Susan Alcorn) / Burdock Music Hall 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

Women From Space Festival (feat. Lieke van der Voort feat. Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Olivia Shortt/Lauren Falls / Teiya Kasahara / Alaska B / Tara Kannangara feat. Matthew Fong/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Mackenzie Longpre) / Burdock Music Hall 2020-03-06 (Friday) [FB event]

Women From Space Festival (feat. Anne Bourne & tUkU / Mira Martin-Gray / Sam Newsome & Kayla Milmine / Pantayo) / Burdock Music Hall 2020-03-07 (Saturday) [FB event]

Women From Space Festival (feat. Elizabeth Lima & Meghan Cheng / Sahara Morimoto & Raphael Roter / Heather Saumer feat. Felicity Williams/Alex Samaras/Thom Gill/Robin Dann / Bea Labikova/William Parker/Germaine Liu / Kris Davis & Ingrid Laubrock) / 918 Bathurst St. 2020-03-08 (Sunday) [FB event]

Last year's initial Women From Space Festival, focusing out of necessity on local acts, was a superbly-curated affair. So like any good sequel, curators Bea Labikova and Kayle Milmine have made this second year bigger and brighter in every way. Local scenes are still the backbone of this year's edition, but there's also the addition of a series of visiting headliners, adding new cross-pollinations and facilitating new collaborations. Essential stuff, and simply not to be missed!

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This week's noteworthy shows:

Relay [Chris Pruden/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Mark Ballyk with special guest Mingjia Jessica Chen] / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-02 (Monday) [FB event]

Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Paul Newman / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-03 (Tuesday – extra-early show @ 5 p.m.!)

Track Could Bend #60 (feat. JP Carter & Friends [JP Carter/Aline Homzy/Ashley Urquhart/Joe Sorbara] / Les Trois Lynx Roux [Émilie Fortin/Germaine Liu/Cory Harper-Latkovich] / Suit World [Alex Hamlyn/Alex McLaren/Vannessa Barnier]) / Wenona Lodge 2020-03-03 (Tuesday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Spring On Winter [Patrick Grant/Raf Reza/Daniela Gassi/Ashley Beattie] (C.R. Gillespie) / Sellers & Newel 2020-03-03 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Ghostlight (Eiyn Sof) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-04 (Wednesday) [FB event]

A Pigsty in a Single Grain of Rice: collages by Andrew Zukerman [opening reception with performance of The Naked Ape Is All Wet, a graphic score by Andrew Zukerman] (feat. Ways) / Likely General 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

WHOOP-Szo (Gloin / Sportsfan) / The Baby G 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

Art of the Uncarved Block presents (feat. Chris [record release!] / Tang / Poor You / Poolblood) / Owl's Club 2019-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

Honeymoon Phase [Defect EP release!] (Mhihkhaihlhah x Chastity Platinum / Animal Party) / 254 Lansdowne 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

In Between Sounds #107 (feat. Lorde Awesome) / The Only Café 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

Carmen Elle (Within / Hiroki Tanaka) / Handlebar 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

VC2 Cello Duo / Canadian Music Centre 2020-03-06 (Friday) [FB event]

PAX (Danika+ / Hobby) / Monarch Tavern 2020-03-06 (Friday) [FB event]

Away Forward [album release party!] (People) / Duggan's Brewery (basement) 2020-03-06 (Friday) [FB event]

Queerly Beloved: Wild Combination (A Portrait of Arthur Russell) [film screening + live set] (feat. The Holy Oak Family Singers) / Paradise Theatre 2020-03-06 (Friday) [FB event]

Motorists [EP release!] (Safe / No Frills) / The Beguiling (basement) 2020-03-07 (Saturday – early!) [FB event]

Diane Roblin's Life Force Sextet / La Rev 2020-03-07 (Saturday) [FB event]

Action Packed Vol. 2 (feat. Bloodshot Bill / Ichi-Bons / The Shook Boys) / The Dakota Tavern 2020-03-07 (Saturday) [FB event]

Processor (Bile Sister / Memorex) / Duggan's Brewery 2020-03-07 (Saturday) [FB event]

Ayal Senior Presents (feat. David Sait / Kurt Newman / Del Stephen's Today Versions / Nick Flanagan [comedy]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-08 (Sunday – afternoon show, 3 to 5 p.m.!) [FB event]

The Furniture Music Composition Workshop #15: Graphic Score Edition ["bring your graphic scores, text score, mixed media, literal sketch prompts, whatever and see how they play out in the hands of another"] (feat. Ben Frost/Bjorn Kriel/Michael Palumbo/Reknee Harrett) / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2019-03-08 (Sunday – 5 to 7 p.m.!) [FB event]

SynapticCircusSundays (feat. Jay Hay/Jim Lewis/Wes Neal/Rick Sacks/Nilan Perera / Dame Cook/Eugene Martynec) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-08 (Sunday – early!) [FB event]

Eucalyptus / Hirut 2020-03-08 (Sunday – all ages + family-friendly! good eats available but not mandatory!) [FB event]

Somewhere There's Second Sunday Series (feat. Mingjia Chen/Chris Pruden/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Mark Ballyk / Pestilential City [Dillon Colter/Aidan Funston/Augustine Yates]) / Array Space 2020-03-08 (Sunday) [FB event]

Lina Allemano [Glimmer Glammer solo trumpet CD release!] (Bloop!) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-08 (Sunday) [FB event]

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Dan McCarthy's "Songs of the Doomed" [music inspired by gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson] (feat. Dan McCarthy/Luan Phung/Don Scott/Dan Fortin/Ernesto Cervini) / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-09 (Monday) [FB event]

Ornate Presents (feat. Insensitive Granola [Aline Homzy/Michael Davidson/Alex Fournier/Germaine Liu]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-10 (Tuesday – early!) [FB event]

Team Building (feat. Jeremy Costello / Tica Holiday / Nico Paulo / Christo Graham / Kurt Inder / Kyle Stephens) / Burdock Music Hall 2020-03-14 (Saturday – early show @ 5:30 p.m.! PWYC!) [FB event]

Audiopollination 81 (feat. Rick Sacks/John Oswald/David Sait / Nicholas Cooper/Del Stephen/Kalia Lenaghan / Ryan Kinney and Avant-Gardeners / Tiina Kiik/David Story/styrofoamNosebleedPrincess) / Array Space 2020-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

Paul Newman & Brian Abbott [album launch!] (Surf Grizzlies [Julian Anderson-Bowes/Kayla Milmine/Luan Phung]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-14 (Saturday) [FB event]

Somewhere There Presents (feat. Stefan Hegerat Trio [Stefan Hegerat/Laura Swankey/Chris Pruden]) / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-15 (Sunday) [more info]

Rat-drifting (feat. Christopher Dela Cruz) / Array Space 2020-03-15 (Sunday) [more info]

Clock Radio [Michael Davidson & Dan Fortin] / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-16 (Monday – PWYC!) [more info]

Alan Licht [solo guitar] (Brodie West & Mani Mazinani) / Array Space 2020-03-19 (Thursday)

Long Winter 8.5 (feat. New Chance / Max & Eyeda / Slash Need / Chladny / Michael Peter Olsen / For Jane / Weak Hands / Mortimer. / dol / U Me N Us Sound Kollective) / Workman Arts 2020-03-21 (Saturday – all ages! PWYC!) [FB event]

Patrick Smith Quintet [Pat Smith/Kaelin Murphy/Noah Franche-Nolan/Hayden Farrar/Nick Fraser] / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-23 (Monday) [more info]

Convergence Theory: season finale (feat. Maxime Corbeil-Perron / Dame Cook / David Storen) / Victory Social Club 2020-03-28 (Saturday) [FB event]

Ben Frost/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Noah Franche-Nolan/Dan Fortin/Keith Barstow / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-29 (Sunday – early!) [FB event]

Ben Dwyer Quartet [Ben Dwyer/Josh Cole/Emily Steinwall/Ewen Farncombe] / The Emmet Ray 2020-03-30 (Monday) [more info]

Witch Prophet [record release show!] (Yasmine) / The Drake Underground 2020-04-01 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Hot Garbage (Peeling / Lee Paradise) / The Baby G 2020-04-02 (Thursday) [FB event]

Favours (Beams / The Kommeden) / Monarch Tavern 2020-04-10 (Friday) [FB event]

World News [The Chosen EP release show!] (MIMICO / Blue Light / Mouth Breather) / The Baby G 2020-04-11 (Saturday) [FB event]

Kiwi Jr. (Ducks Unlimited / For Keeps / The Barnkats) / The Garrison 2020-05-01 (Friday) [FB event]

Jon Mckiel [Bobby Joe Hope You've Changed Records LP release!] (Heaven For Real / Triples) / Monarch Tavern 2020-05-08 (Friday) [FB event]

The AMBiENT PiNG's Drone Day (feat. dreamSTATE) / Roland Inspiration Centre 2020-05-30 (Saturday – free!) [FB event]

Negativland (Brian Ruryk) / Paradise Theatre 2020-07-23 (Thursday) [more info]

Concert Listings Roundup #342

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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This week's noteworthy shows:

The Sweetest Noise: A Birthday Celebration of Justin Haynes (feat. Rebecca Campbell with Lina Allemano/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser/Tania Gill/Thom Gill/Craig Harley/Jean Martin/David Travers-Smith/Kevin Turcotte) / Hugh's Room 2020-02-24 (Monday) [more info]

Soundstreams Encounters: Making it all up? [performance and discussion] (feat. Nick Storring / Chris Pruden / Araz Salek / Rob Clutton) / Gladstone Hotel 2020-02-24 (Monday – free with RSVP!) [FB event]

CMC/Riparian Acoustics Present ["solo and duo works for flute and cello, with some works featuring electronics"] (feat. Amahl Arulanandam/Sara Constant) / Canadian Music Centre 2020-02-25 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Furniture Music (feat. Pat Boyle & Friends [Pat Boyle/Meghan Gilhespy/Ernie Tollar/Alex Fournier/Paul Fitterer] / Queasy Weasel [Bea Labikova/Ashley Urquhart/Caleb Klager/Stefan Hegerat]) / Wenona Lodge 2020-02-25 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Lina Allemano's Titanium Riot / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-02-25 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Exit Points #1 (feat. Glen Hall/Curtis Whitaker/Michael Palumbo / Raph Roter/Hryso Maheras/Rob Cruickshank) / Hirut Restaurant 2020-02-26 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Scott Hardware (Lee Paradise) / The Boat 2020-02-26 (Wednesday – rescheduled show!) [FB event]

Music by Harry and Furlong (feat. Harry Vetro's Adolescence Ensemble [Meghan Noelle Gilhespy/Madeleine Ertel/Ben Frost/Harrison Argatoff/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Dan Pitt/Patrick O'Reilly/Noah Franche-Nolan/Yunjin Claire Lee/Hayden Farrar/Harry Vetro] / Ian McGimpsey) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-02-26 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Appetite For Deconstruction No.1 [Improvised experimental music curated by experimental artist Mike Barber. Each evening is divided in two parts — guest artists will perform their sets which will be sampled and used as the raw materials for Barber's closing set.] (feat. Jakob Rehlinger/Autotectonic/Mike Barber) / Wenona Lodge 2002-02-27 (Thursday) [FB event]

The Holy Oak Family Singers Revue (feat. Thom Gill/Luka Kuplowsky/Robin Dann/Felicity Williams/Ben Whiteley/Ivy Mairi/Joseph Shabason/Alex Lukashevsky/Evan Cartwright/Carmen Elle/Alex Samaras/Ben Gunning) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-02-27 (Thursday) [FB event]

It's Been Fun! [“End of an Era” party] (feat. Slutcode / Body Butter / ZA / Loji) / Handlebar 2020-02-27 (Thursday) [FB event]

Aurochs / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-02-28 (Friday – early!)

The Ryan Driver Sextet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-02-28 (Friday)

Freesound 02 [works by Laurence Crane, Pauline Oliveros, Paolo Griffin, Maya Verlaak] (feat. Freesound Ensemble) / The Music Gallery 2020-02-28 (Friday) [FB event]

Young Guv (Pretty Matty / BLANKS) / The Garrison 2020-02-28 (Friday) [FB event]

M.I.N.D. [album release show!] / The Dupe Shop 2020-02-29 (Saturday – all-ages! free!) [FB event]

Dai Fujikura Mini-Marathon (feat. The Array Ensemble / Thin Edge New Music Collective) / Array Space 2020-02-29 (Saturday) [FB event]

Erin Corbett (Miserable Weekend / Output 1:1:1) / The Cavern Bar 2020-02-29 (Saturday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Brooklyn Bohach/Laura Swankey/Noah Franche-Nolan/Yunjin Claire Lee/Zachary Cardwell / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-02-29 (Saturday) [FB event]

First Sunday Jam #3 (feat. Maggie Keogh/Daniel Easty/Robert Chapman/Chris Banks/Spencer Cole + jam to follow!) / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2020-03-01 (Sunday) [FB event]

Emergents II (feat. Bakarlari) / The Music Gallery 2020-03-01 (Sunday) [FB event]

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Add these to your calendar:

Reminder: This post only contains this week's updates — the full listings can always be found over on the right-hand sidebar!

M.I.N.D. [album release show!] / The Dupe Shop 2020-02-29 (Saturday – all-ages! free!) [FB event]

Spring On Winter [Patrick Grant/Raf Reza/Daniela Gassi/Ashley Beattie] (C.R. Gillespie) / Sellers & Newel 2020-03-03 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Ghostlight (Eiyn Sof) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-04 (Wednesday) [FB event]

In Between Sounds #107 (feat. Lorde Awesome) / The Only Café 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

Carmen Elle (Within / Hiroki Tanaka) / Handlebar 2020-03-05 (Thursday) [FB event]

Action Packed Vol. 2 (feat. Bloodshot Bill / Ichi-Bons / The Shook Boys) / The Dakota Tavern 2020-03-07 (Saturday) [FB event]

Processor (Bile Sister / Memorex) / Duggan's Brewery 2020-03-07 (Saturday) [FB event]

The Furniture Music Composition Workshop #15: Graphic Score Edition ["bring your graphic scores, text score, mixed media, literal sketch prompts, whatever and see how they play out in the hands of another"] (feat. Ben Frost/Bjorn Kriel/Michael Palumbo/Reknee Harrett) / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2019-03-08 (Sunday – 5 to 7 p.m.!) [FB event]

Lina Allemano [Glimmer Glammer solo trumpet CD release!] (Bloop!) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2020-03-08 (Sunday) [FB event]

The AMBiENT PiNG (feat. Your Winters Are Like Summers Here / notsawry) / Handlebar 2020-03-11 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Joyfultalk [A Separation of Being LP release!] (Joyful Joyful) / Burdock Music Hall 2020-03-16 (Monday) [FB event]

Tough Age (So Young / Elmer Flood) / Handlebar 2020-03-21 (Saturday) [FB event]

Praises [EP Release!] (Queen of Swords / Secret Sign) / Monarch Tavern 2020-03-27 (Friday) [FB event]

So Sensitive (Rapport / So Young) / The Baby G 2020-04-08 (Wednesday) [FB event]