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.
Gig of the week:
Biblical (PANIC / Overnight) / The Horseshoe Tavern 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
A simply monstrous rock juggernaut. The night's openers might not have name recognition, but they're full of veteran hands. Overnight extends the work that Carla and Lynette Gillis (ex-Plumtree) were pursuing a couple years ago in Sister, but pushes that band's heavy undertones up to the surface. Panic, fronted by Simon Oates (ex-No No Zero) haven't played much live yet, but this group of vets already has an excellent album under their belt and hit like The Cramps on bad acid. And Biblical are turning things up to eleven, metaphorically speaking, with recent tour fill-in Jordan Howard sticking with the band to form a three-headed guitar attack up front. Start practising your Devil Horns now.
This week's noteworthy shows:
Aurochs / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-14 (Tuesday – early!)
Audiopollination #29.1 (feat. Heidi Chan/Jamie Thompson / Brian Abbot/James Bailey / Kayla Milmine/Conrad Gale / Tomasz Krakowiak/Holger Schoorl) / Array Space 2015-04-14 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Moon King [album release!] (Lee Paradise / Blunt Chunks) / Smiling Buddha 2015-04-14 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Bedroom / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-14 (Tuesday)
The Mike Smith Company: Live and Love Amongst the Transcombobulants / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-15 (Wednesday – early!) [FB event]
Paul-Julien Tanti (Jesse Levine) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-15 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Peach Kelli Pop (The Lord Almightys / Total Love) / Smiling Buddha 2015-04-15 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Jared Brown (TV Sets) / Handlebar 2015-04-15 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Boring, Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (feat. lecture by eldritch Priest / performace of "The Brown Study") / Array Space 2015-04-16 (Thursday – PWYC!) [more info]
PPOP Presents (feat. Hector's Pets / Legato Vipers / Marvelous Mark / King Creep) / Johnny Jackson 2015-04-16 (Thursday) [FB event]
Norman Blake, Joe Pernice and Guests [April residency!] / Dakota Tavern 2015-04-17 (Friday – early!) [FB event]
Dust: The Quietest Big Band in the Known World / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-17 (Friday – early!)
Colin Fisher & Mike Gennaro (The Brian Abbott Trio) / Musideum 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Mermaids (John Mark Sherlock/ Martin Arnold) / Ratio 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Sous le soleil (films by Man Ray, Georges Méliès, Marcel Duchamp with live soundtrack by Andrew Downing/Kevin Turcotte/William Carn/Peter Lutek/Joe Phillips/Aleksandar Gajic/David Occhipinti) / Théâtre de l'Alliance francaise Toronto 2015-04-17 (Friday) [more info]
Champion Lover (Several Futures / The Two Koreas / Kurt Marble) / Magpie Taproom 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Steam Whistle Unsigned (feat. Dilly Dally / Teenanger / Most People) / Steam Whistle Brewing 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Holy Oak's 6th Anniversary (feat. April Snow & The Musicologists [Thom Gill/Johnny Spence/Bram Gielen/Kieran Adams] / "secret guest performance") / Holy Oak Café 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Ronley Teper and The Lipliners / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Dirty Frigs (Birds of Paradise / Sunshine & The Blue Moon / Katelyn Molgard) / The Silver Dollar Room 2015-04-17 (Friday) [FB event]
Record Store Day 2015 (feat. Comet Control / Mimico / Harrison / Anamai / Carl Didur) / Sonic Boom 2015-04-18 (Saturday – free all-day in-store performances! bands start at 2 p.m.!) [FB event]
Contact Contemporary Music: Professor Bad Trip (The Michael Eckert Large Earth Ensemble) / The Music Gallery 2015-04-18 (Saturday) [more info]
Record Store Day Afterparty (feat. Soupcans / Mmm Mmm [Sexy Merlin/Man Made Hill] / "Secret Special Guest") / 8-Eleven 2015-04-18 (Saturday) [FB event]
PPOP Presents (Not Of [record release!] / Nice Head) / Magpie Taproom 2015-04-18 (Saturday) [FB event]
Tsehaye Yohannes (Tewodros Tadesse / Daniel Nebiat) / The Opera House 2015-04-18 (Saturday) [more info]
NOISE: Toronto Noise Showcase (feat. Processor / Knurl / Cantenac Dagar / All Girl Knife Fight) / Double Double Land 2015-04-18 (Saturday) [FB event]
Alaniaris / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-19 (Sunday – afternoon set! 3 to 5 p.m.!)
Audiopollination #29.2 (feat. John Oswald/John Kamevaar/Germaine Liu / Michael Snow/Paul Dutton/Glen Hall/Mani Mazinani / CCMC) / Array Space 2015-04-19 (Sunday) [FB event]
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!
Somewhere There Presents (feat. Craig Pedersen Quartet / Ali Berkok) / Musideum 2015-04-21 (Tuesday) [FB event]
THE AMBiENT PiNG (feat. iderdown + NAW + JFM) / Ratio 2015-04-21 (Tuesday) [more info]
Loom (Isla Craig) / Holy Oak Café 2015-04-22 (Wednesday) [FB event]
PPOP Presents (feat. Outtacontroller / Pink Wine / Make No Gains / Big Jrs.) / Johnny Jackson 2015-04-24 (Friday) [FB event]
HPR presents (feat. Spawn of Phil / Brian Schirk) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-04-29 (Wednesday) [FB event]
PPOP Presents (feat. HRRR / M. Mucci / BABEL) / Johnny Jackson 2015-04-30 (Thursday) [FB event]
TMT Trio (David Occhipinti [solo]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2015-05-01 (Friday) [FB event]
Feast In The East: 4 Year Anniversary (feat. The Soupcans / Steve Kado / My Suitor / Eucalyptus) / Jam Factory 2015-05-02 (Saturday) [FB event]
The Blow (Anna Oxygen) / The Garrison 2015-05-03 (Sunday) [FB event]
Wavelength 657 (feat. Memorex / Coarse Language / Schønsee) / 8-Eleven 2015-05-09 (Saturday) [FB event]
Final Blocks Concert (feat. Nifty / Austra / The Barcelona Pavilion [2002-2004 Lineup] / Bob Wiseman / The Phonemes [Full Band] / Hank / Matias / Ninja High School / Les Mouches) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2015-05-09 (Saturday) [FB event]
Army Girls (Crushed Out) / Burdock Music Hall 2015-05-13 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Pedram Khavarzamini (Shawn Mativetsky) / The Music Gallery 2015-05-16 (Saturday) [FB event]
Charlotte Cornfield (Matthew Bailey) / Burdock Music Hall 2015-05-28 (Thursday) [FB event]
N.213's Group Vision (Tough Age / Eyeballs) / 8-Eleven 2015-05-30 (Saturday) [FB event]
Public Animal (Eamon McGrath) / 3030 2015-05-30 (Saturday – free!) [FB event]
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