D-sisive is performing. Go see him. He needs your love.
It’s Canadian Music Week time again here in Toronto. Which means hundreds of bands have invaded the city thinking they’re going to become famous or something. They won’t. But at least it’s a good excuse to go out for a few days and see a pile of bands.
Here’s my tentative want-to-see schedule:
Wednesday, March 21
4 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joel Plaskett @ CN Tower
10 p.m. Louise Burns @ Drake Hotel
10 p.m. Teenage Kicks @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
10:30 p.m. Krief @ Great Hall
11 p.m. Treble Charger @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
11:30 p.m. Young Empires @ Great Hall
12 a.m. DZ Deathrays @ Bovine Sex Club
12 a.m. Kalle Mattson @ The Rivoli
1 a.m. Sam Coffey @ Hard Luck
Thursday, March 22
7:30 p.m. Diana Salvatore @ Tranzac
8 p.m. JF Robitaille @ Sneaky Dee’s
9 p.m. Royal Canoe @ Drake Hotel
9 p.m. Ariane Moffatt @ El Mocambo
9 p.m. Cold Specks @ Music Gallery
11 p.m. Tribes @ Lee’s Palace
11 p.m. Fred @ The Rivoli
11 p.m. D-Sisive @ Opera House
11 p.m. Last Years Men @ Silver Dollar
11:30 p.m. Pack A.D. @ Horseshoe Tavern
11:35 p.m. Teenage Kicks @ The Hideout
12:50 a.m. Monster Truck @ Horseshoe Tavern
1 a.m. The Dears @ El Mocambo
1 a.m. DZ Deathrays @ Wrongbar
Friday, March 23
*catl @ Comfort Zone (playing all night)
10 p.m. Cadence Weapon @ Great Hall
10 p.m. Humans @ Wrongbar
11 p.m. Caveman @ Lee’s Palace
11:30 p.m. Chains Of Love @ El Mocambo
12 a.m. Danielle Duval @ Czehoski
1 a.m. Monster Truck @ El Mocambo
1:30 a.m. Caveman @ El Mocambo
2 a.m. DZ Deathrays @ El Mocambo
3 a.m. Sheezer @ Sneaky Dee’s
Saturday, March 24
4:45 p.m. DZ Deathrays @ El Mocambo
8 p.m. Pack AD @ Royal York
8 p.m. Mike O’Neill @ The Rivoli
8:40 p.m. Treble Charger @ Royal York
9 p.m. Royal Canoe @ Hard Luck
9:20 p.m. Chains Of Love @ Horseshoe Tavern
10:25 p.m. Rich Aucoin @ Royal York
11 p.m. Whale Tooth @ Lee’s Palace
11 p.m. Mark Inside @ Velvet Underground
12 a.m. Inbreds @ Lee’s Palace
12 a.m. Nightbox @ Wrongbar
1 a.m. Schomberg Fair @ Bovine Sex Club
So yeah, I intent to make it to at least one of the 17 DZ Deathrays shows.
In related news, I also compiled a list of all the “Polaris approved” artists that will be performing at CMW. That is, all the acts who’ve made either the Short or the Long List for the Polaris Music Prize in the past. You can see that whole list, in convenient day-by-day schedule form, by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site.
Sunday, March 25
10:10 p.m. Wedding Present @ Horseshoe Tavern
10:30 p.m. Ian Kamau @ Wrongbar
Risky Fuel 