Concert Listings Roundup #262

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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Gig of the week:

Track Could Bend #41 (feat. Debashis Sinha / Luyos MC / No Seas) / Wenona Lodge 2018-08-07 (Tuesday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Shaking off the long weekend doldrums, there's entirely too much going this week, so once again there's hard choices to be made (Thursday, for example, has no fewer than three excellent shows going down, and the weekend is pretty jam-packed, including excellent African music throughout at Harbourfront's Habari Festival) but in the summer rush of it all, take care not to miss the modest pleasures, like Tuesday's stacked bill at Track Could Bend. Settling into the cozy basement digs at Wenona Lodge, expect a variety of flavours, from Alexei Orechin's ambient/noise for tapes'n'guitar, to Luyos MC's soft power kulintang fusions to Debashis Sinha's electroacoustic investigations.

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This week's noteworthy shows:

Colin Fisher/Josh Cole/Spencer Cole / The Emmet Ray 2018-08-06 (Monday) [FB event]

Greene/Theriot (b mcc-b & Kristen Zimmer / Kontraband Kollektif) / The Tranzac (Tiki Room) 2018-08-06 (Monday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Jessica Moss [Aug. 6th] / KGD [Aug. 7th]) / The Phoenix 2018-08-06–2018-08-07 (Monday–Tuesday) [FB event]

The Mike Smith Company / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-07 (Tuesday – early!) [FB event]

Peripheral Vision (FNQ [Bryan Qu/Kurt Newman/Nick Fraser]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-07 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Greene/Theriot (Cory Harper-Latkovich / Kontraband Kollektif) / Glad Day Bookshop 2018-08-08 (Wednesday – early show @ 7 p.m.!) [FB event]

Lina Allemano/Nate Renner/Mark Segger / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-08 (Wednesday – early!)

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Sarah Davachi / Uxvae / Moth Ash) / The Baby G 2018-08-09 (Thursday) [FB event]

Music in the Park (feat. Kamancello / Castle If / Absolutely Free) / Ontario Place (Trillium Park) 2018-08-09 (Thursday – free! outside! all-ages!) [FB event]

Rob Clutton/Colin Fisher (act tbh [Trevor Turple/Connor Bennett/Aaron Hutchinson]) / Pamenar 2018-08-09 (Thursday – cozy back patio!) [FB event]

Lina Allemano Quartet featuring Michael Davidson / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-10 (Friday – early!) [FB event]

Nifty & Colin Fisher / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-10 (Friday) [FB event]

Riparian Acoustics presents (feat. Késia Decoté / Dog Days of Summer [Allison Cameron/ Kurt Newman]) / Array Music 2018-08-10 (Friday) [FB event]

Habari Africa Festival (feat. Songs of the Azmari / Fatoumata Kouyate & Mabinty Sylla / Sona Jobarteh) / Harbourfront Centre 2018-08-10 (Friday – free! all-ages + family-friendly!) [FB event]

Minibeast [w/ Mission of Burma's Peter Prescott] (Insect Factory / Not Of) / The Baby G 2018-08-10 (Friday) [FB event]

HIDE (Kontravoid) / The Garrison 2018-08-10 (Friday) [FB event]

Habari Africa Festival (feat. Indian Ocean Roots / Slimflex / Haiba & Hassan el Hadi / Barnes/Woldemichael Ethio-jazz Quartet / Africa All-Stars [Alpha Yaya Diallo/Madagascar Slim/Donne Roberts/Kofi Ackah/Ebenezer Agyekum/Mabinty Sylla] / The Ace of Africa w/ Blandine) / Harbourfront Centre 2018-08-12 (Saturday – free! all-ages + family-friendly!) [FB event]

Manifesto Discovery Series: RPM 2-Year Anniversary & Mixtape (feat. Drezus / Ziibiwan / Obuxum / DATU / Wolf Saga) / The Root Down Studio 2018-08-11 (Saturday) [FB event]

Audiopollination #62 (feat. James Bailey/Neil Wiernik / Jeff Luciani/Del Stephen/Maxwell McEachern / Brett Despotovich/e1e/Erik Kinsella / Mickle32/Mira Martin-Gray) / Array Space 2018-08-11 (Saturday) [FB event]

Heavy Traffic: The Music of Intrusion ["electronic compositions for low loudspeakers"] / Canadian Music Centre 2018-08-11 (Saturday) [FB event]

Ayal Senior (Kurt Newman's Nashville Minimalism Unit / Nick Flanagan [comedy]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-12 (Sunday – afternoon show, 3 to 5 p.m.!) [FB event]

Habari Africa Festival (feat. Alpha Yaya Diallo / Élage Mbaye / Tich Maredza Band with Ruth Mathiang & Elvis Bokosha) / Harbourfront Centre 2018-08-12 (Sunday – free! all-ages + family-friendly!) [FB event]

Zine Dream After Party (feat. Petra Glynt / Time / Sea Beau / Scarlett Rose) / The Baby G 2018-08-12 (Sunday) [FB event]

The Titillators [Thom Gill/Tania Gill/Germaine Liu/Ryan Driver/Philippe Melanson] / The Emmet Ray 2018-08-12 (Sunday – PWYC!]) [more info]

Lina Allemano Four / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-12 (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!

Ornate Presents (feat. Mike DeiCont [solo bass]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-14 (Tuesday – early!) [FB event]

Tania Gill Quartet [Tania Gill/Lina Allemano/Nico Dann/Rob Clutton] / The Rex 2018-08-15 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Topography [Dave Riedstra] (Velvet Crystals [Emilie Gelinas-Noble/Austin Lamarche/Olivia Shortt/Katherine Watson]) / Array Space 2018-08-15 (Wednesday) [FB event]

AMBiENT PiNG's 19th Anniversary (feat. Whisper Room [Aidan Baker/Neil Wiernik/Jakob Thiesen] / Weep, O' Mine Eyes) / Handlebar 2018-08-15 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Ace of Wands [10,000 Feet EP Release!] (Beams / Ron Hawkins / When Particles Collide) / The Horseshoe Tavern 2018-08-18 (Saturday) [FB event]

Tetsuo (Love Children of the Apocalypse) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2018-08-21 (Tuesday – early!) [FB event]

Moonwood [cassette + 7" release celebration!] (Dark Bird) / The Dupe Shop 2018-08-25 (Saturday – afternoon show! PWYC! all ages!) [FB event]

Bekah Simms [impurity chains album launch!] (feat. Katherine Watson/Carla Perrotta/Émilie Fortin/Adrian Irvine/Emilie Gelinas-Noble/Amahl Arulanandam/Andrew Noseworthy/Phil Albert/Stephanie Chua/Evan Bowen/Pratik Gandhi) / Canadian Music Centre 2018-09-08 (Saturday – free with rsvp!) [FB event]

Feels Fine [EP release show!] (Camp Girls / Nezzy) / The Baby G 2018-09-13 (Thursday) [FB event]

FASTER presents (feat. Carl Ludwig Hübsch/Pierre-Yves Martel/Philip Zoubek / Magiceyeimage) / Gerrard Art Space 2018-09-15 (Saturday) [FB event]

Harrison² [Harrison Argatoff/Mike Murley/Steve Wallace/Harrison Vetro] / The Emmet Ray 2018-09-30 (Sunday) [FB event]

Doldrums (Crying High) / Monarch Tavern 2018-10-05 (Friday) [FB event]

Fucked Up / The Horseshoe Tavern 2018-10-19 (Friday) [FB event]

Alternate Forest ["a multidisciplinary adventure revealing some magic powers within our world's forests"] (feat. SlowPitchSound and Lybido) / Array Space 2018-10-26–2018-10-28 (Friday–Sunday) [FB event]