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by | May 1, 2015 · 6:49 pm

Canadian Music Week 2015: My Where’s Waldo Recommendation List

The Jesus And Mary Chain

The Jesus And Mary Chain

It’s always been a little easy to pick on Canadian Music Week what with its focus on the “industry” side of music and the sheer amount of wide-eyed acts who’ll travel to the fest in the hopeless hope of “making it.”

Thing is, that’s the cynical view. If you actually still like music, and you’re not dead inside there are a tremendous amount of intriguing acts worth investigating.

Every year at these sort of things (this will be my 16th CMW) I put together a flex list broken down by day/hour for acts I’m interested in seeing. Not quite an official recommendations list, this is more of an awesome-known-quantities + this-sounds-like-it-has-promise list.

If you want to play Where’s Waldo and try to find me over the next 10 days it will likely be at some of the following places:

Friday, May 1
8 pm Gateway Drugs @ Phoenix
9 pm Jesus And Mary Chain @ Phoenix
9 pm John Cougar @ Sony Centre
11 pm Daniel Lanois @ Horseshoe Tavern
11 pm Fidlar @ Great Hall
12:30 am Tre Mission @ Rivoli

Saturday, May 2
9 pm John Cougar @ Sony Centre
9 pm Planet Creature @ Silver Dollar
12 am Fidlar @ Horseshoe Tavern

Sunday, May 3
8 pm Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Sony Centre

Monday, May 4
8 pm Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Sony Centre
9 pm Of Monsters And Men @ Massey Hall

Tuesday, May 5
8 pm Canadianity @ Rivoli
10:30 pm Programm @ The Garrison

Wednesday, May 6
8:30 pm Slow Down Molasses @ Drake Underground
9 pm Murder Murder @ The Dakota Tavern
10 pm Sianspheric @ Horseshoe Tavern
10 pm The Cocksure Lads @ Rivoli
10 pm The Holy Gasp @ Silver Dollar
11 pm Swervedriver @ Horseshoe Tavern
12:40 am Slow Down Molasses @ Parts & Labour

Thursday, May 7
9:30 pm Souljazz Orchestra @ Lula Lounge
10 pm Solids @ Horseshoe Tavern
10:15 pm Wordburglar @ Hard Luck
10:45 pm Swamp Thing @ Hard Luck
11 pm Thomas D’Arcy @ Smilin’ Buddha
11 pm Juliawhy @ Bovine
11 pm Pet Sun @ Silver Dollar
11:10 pm D-Sisive @ Hard Luck
12 am Jazz Chartier @ Garrison
12 am Twin Guns @ Bovine
1 am Gateway Drugs @ Bovine
2:30 am Acid Priest @ Horseshoe Tavern

Friday, May 8
12:55 pm Juliawhy @ The Rivoli
9 pm Dear Criminals @ Silver Dollar
10 pm Gateway Drugs @ Horseshoe Tavern
11 pm Dead Tired @ Lee’s Palace
11 pm Brave Shores @ Mod Club
11 pm East India Youth @ Drake Underground
12 am Single Mothers @ Lee’s Palace
12 am Elephant Stone @ Hard Luck
12 am Indian Handcrafts @ The Hideout
1 am Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger @ Horseshoe Tavern
1 am Immigrant Union @ Bovine
1 am The Pinholes @ The Paddock
1 am Twin Guns @ The Hideout

Saturday, May 9
8 pm The Pinholes @ Cherry Cola’s
8:50 pm Jazz Chartier @ Danforth Music Hall
10 pm About: @ Handlebar
10 pm The Soul Motivators @ Supermarket
10 pm Kalle Mattson @ The Garrison
10 pm Psychedelic Furs @ Phoenix
11 pm Humans @ Great Hall
12 am Cloud Nothings @ Lee’s Palace
12 am Aldo The Band @ Underground Garage
12 am Rich Aucoin @ Great Hall
12 am Gateway Drugs @ Sneaky Dee’s

Sunday, May 10
11 pm Animalia @ Rancho Relaxo

I also want to see this Belgian band Soldout and Nick Flanagan’s new dorkstick thing Wrong Hole, but when and where they’re playing isn’t actually listed anywhere (?).

For more information about Canadian Music Week, go here.

For wristbands, go here.

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by | March 22, 2012 · 2:34 am

Here’s A Photo Of Joel Plaskett Performing In The CN Tower

Joel Plaskett at the CN Tower

Joel Plaskett at the CN Tower

Joel Plaskett played a set at the top of the CN Tower earlier today as part of an official kick-off party for Canadian Music Week 2012. His set was pretty solid and he made no shortage of “eight mile high” and “higher than the sun” references throughout his set.

As a bonus, I also took a shot while standing on the glass floor of the Tower. It was slightly more freaky than I remembered it.

Looking down through the glass floor at the CN Tower

Looking down through the glass floor at the CN Tower

 

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by | March 21, 2012 · 3:35 pm

CMW 2012: Recommendations And Polaris Approved Acts

D-sisive is performing. Go see him. He needs your love.

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

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