JUST ANNOUNCED: SONIC BOOM 25th Anniversary Party Co-presented with Wavelength FEATURING The Sadies @thesadiesofficial.bsky.social Kiwi Jr. Badge Époque Ensemble Roach The Get Alongs Paste Sun Parker + special guests May 9 Wavelength @ St. Anne’s 651 Dufferin St Doors 6pm bit.ly/SBoom25

We were honoured to be a part of @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social's first-ever music conference at the Lula Lounge in Toronto yesterday!

Slash Need in Fangtastic form at @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social fest:

A special thank you to our funders and partners that make the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference possible!

TOMORROW: The Wavelength Music Festival and Conference! For a comprehensive look, we HIGHLY recommend downloading Dancing Decibels! Dancing Decibels features a full schedule and map, artist bios, FAQ, + a visitors guide with deals for badge + wristband holders! dancingdecibels.com/download-mob...

❤️‍🔥💥 SOOK-YIN LEE plays the @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social Festival this Saturday March 21 @ St Anne’s. An epic bill alongside Sheenah Ko, Slash Need, and Melissa Auf der Maur (DJ xMAdMx) TICKETS: www.wavelengthmusic.ca/festival-eve...

Today's "Crritic!" top 10 includes @themountaingoats.bsky.social, @kjmoulton.bsky.social, @marchxness.bsky.social, @ntbtsthemoviehype.bsky.social, @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social, the Ticketmaster mess, a Blue Moon rant, Mile End Kicks, McCartney's movie & more. carlwilson.substack.com/p/oscars-shm...

Newcomers Mad Iris are blooming in Toronto’s music scene with the look and feel of a mid-90s garage band. As the band prepares for their upcoming performance on March 20, we spoke with them about their songwriting process and and influences: www.wavelengthmusic.ca/zine/mad-iri...

Join @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social for the Wavelength Music Conference, March 19-20! Two days of talks, panels & workshops on Canada's independent live music sector. WIC community: Get 20% off with code 20WMC (Conference Pass) or AA20WMFC (All Access Pass)🎵 🔗 www.wavelengthmusic.ca/festival-eve...

Nowruz: An Evening of Music + Community Thursday March 19 Wavelength @ St. Anne’s (Downstairs) 651 Dufferin St – Toronto Doors 9:30pm All Ages Discounted tickets are available to members of the Iranian community to use at your own discretion. $26 tickets plus taxes and fees at bit.ly/WMFC2026

Get caught up on our first e-newsletter of 2026! 🎉 Check out stories on our international musical escapades, a new music festival + conference we're supporting by @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social, and messages from our friends at @torontosymphony.bsky.social ⬇️ app.scsend.net?q=email/view...

🔉Wavelength Music Conference: Day One Schedule! 🔉 Thursday March 19 @ Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas St. W. 9am-4pm Tickets: bit.ly/WMFC2026

Thank you for joining us for the Kingdom of Birds album release! Make sure you put VERMIN on all your playlists: it’s full of emotion, energy, and expression. Hand-picked openers Rosie Wyse + Last Waltzon didn’t just warm the room up, they lit it on fire. It was a show to remember! 📸 Maggie Rose

🔊THIS SATURDAY: Rosie Wyse at Wavelength! Rosie Wyse has been gestating on new music since her last release in 2020. As she builds the cinematic world in her next record, Wavelength talked to Rosie about her classical influence the vulnerability expressed in her music. youtu.be/p2kihjEnvhg

🎛️Pet all these synths, and more! FREE interactive installation from March 19-21 at Inter/Access Check out these fascinating synthesizers, sourced by Tri City Synths and Synth Palace , that will be showcased alongside mannny more during this three-day event.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Toronto’s Mad Iris formed in 2023 with the look, sound, and feel of a mid-'90s garage band. Frontwomen Kaiya Rosie and Ela Hinatsu blend bratty screams with hushed sighs, contrasting kaleidoscope guitar distortion and roaring drum beats.

📣LOCAL SUPPORT ADDED! ARTU joins Sessa + Kolumbo 🪘🪇🥁🪇🪘 Thursday May 14, 2026 Wavelength @ St. Anne’s 651 Dufferin Street Doors 8pm Single tix $30.74 ($22 adv + taxes & fees) at bit.ly/SessaWL All Ages/Licensed

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Salar Ansari is a Detroit-based DJ/producer blending Persian roots with deep, soulful techno. His live PA performances, using a mixer and outboard effects, adapt to the room for an engaging experience.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Cinna Peyghamy is a composer & sound artist born in France from Iranian parents. At the centre of his setup is the tombak, a traditional percussion instrument, blending the boundaries between acoustic & electronic, traditional & contemporary.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Kensington Market Musical History Walking Tour March 21 11:30am-1:30pm FREE – RSVP on DICE at bit.ly/MusicWalkKensington Public programming, donations welcome

JUST ANNOUNCED: An Ambient Evening at St. Anne’s featuring Jessica Moss + Pursuit Grooves + Nick Schofield + Kilometre Club Saturday April 25, 2025 Wavelength @ St. Anne’s 651 Dufferin St Doors 6pm $26 + taxes & fees at DICE.FM bit.ly/AmbientAnnes ALL AGES / Licensed Poster by Robert Voyvodic

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Dastgâmachine embrace a legible and unique form of psychedelia, incorporating the sounds and production techniques of dub, techno, and musique concrete into the Dastgâ system of arranging classical Persian art music.

Have you preordered our upcoming issue yet? 👀 Click here to see who's featured in Musicworks 153: musicworksmag.myshopify.com/products/win...

OUT TODAY: Instant Comfort by Lucid Express via @kaninerecords.bsky.social Instant Comfort is the sound of a young band who have now traveled the world, seen what it has to offer, held it for a moment, before watching it slip through their fingers...

Announcing our program - more speakers to be introduced! March 19 + 20: Wavelength Music Conference It’s time to get together: a two day program of talks, panels, workshops, and gatherings aimed at independent musicians, industry professionals and the general public!

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Hailing from France and based in Montreal, Hélène Barbier switches between English and French atop aggressively anti-complicated avant-pop melodies. Surrounded by talented musicians, she creates an imbalance through juxtaposition.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Pizza Bush have been lighting Toronto venues on fire since 2023. From pithy songs about Jazz bros, to sarcastic numbers about the woes of being a landlord, their music blends genres like folk, punk, & bluegrass with angelic three-part harmonies

For Juno-nominated Tara Kannangara, performing is the most pure form of musical expression. “There’s an unknown energy that you get to play with, and you can feel it in the room—that can’t be replicated,” she told writer Abiola Regan, coming soon in Musicworks 153. (📸: Howard Billerman)

NEXT WEEK: Toronto’s essential post-punk power trio Kingdom of Birds comes to Wavelength with the release of their latest and greatest LP, Vermin. Featuring extreme precision and faithfulness to their live sound, the album is full of dirty, ear-worming riffs and versatile vocal performances.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Melissa Auf der Maur encore memoir launch! Canadian alt legend MAdM’s launch at the AGO sold out so quickly, we had to add a second date! For this music-centric talk, Melissa will chat in conversation with Emilie Hanskamp, Toronto music journalist and creator.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Bad Waitress redefines what garage punk could sound like. They invite you in, hand you a guitar-shredded anthem, then leave you yelling the chorus long after the amp cools. Because in their world, you don’t just listen—you participate.

🎂Happy 26th Birthday to Wavelength! 🎂 On Feb 13, 2000 we had our very first show: Mean Red Spiders + Neck @ Ted’s Wrecking Yard. We spent 2025 celebrating our silver anniversary, & are thrilled to wrap things up with a 🎀bow🎀 by presenting our first-ever Wavelength Music Festival + Conference!

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Bibi Club Harsh things become magical as the duo transforms them into lyrics. The concrete dust that fills the air turns into bright sparks that rekindle childhood glee. Liberated, seductive, undeniable. In the crowd bodies dance the night away.

🦅👑FEB 28: Kingdom of Birds @ Wavelength! The band’s signature honesty & grit harmonize with their charismatic energy on their upcoming, featuring the uncomfortably intimate observations of growing up. They will be joined by Montréal’s Last Waltzon & Toronto’s Rosie Wyse for night-long thrashing.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: bikebike explores multi-idiomatic music, with an eclecticism of rhythm and dance oriented composition, cultivating the spirit of the moment with a general sense of digging for something interesting to discover, and groove out to.

🌟GENERAL ON-SALE STARTS NOW: Melissa Auf der Maur Memoir Launch Join Canadian musician Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist for Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins for the Toronto launch of her new memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ‘90s Rock Memoir. This is all ages will include a book signing!

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Initially an experiment in electronic music production, Colle became Maya McGrory’s defining musical voice. Her music invites listeners into immersive emotional landscapes, where expansive glacial synths, strings, and driving beats converge.

Coming to Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: JUNO-nominated Tara Kannangara is a second-generation, Sri Lankan-Canadian force of nature, making deeply personal & culture blending music. All this, encompassed by wild trumpet melodies, searing guitar lines, lush synths, & piercing lyricism

THIS MONTH! Last Waltzon at Wavelength: With distinct vocal styles and explosive live shows, Last Waltzon is an art-rock band born from Montreal’s DIY circuit driven by a propulsive rhythm section and balancing chaos and clarity through moody, sharp, fast-moving guitars.

Coming to Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Dan English is an Iowa-raised, Brooklyn based leftfield singer-songwriter with diverse influences from the radio rock of his youth. His 2025 record Sky Record is part confession, part séance— lush spells where the sacred & the stained trade places.

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference: Poetry jazz rock musician Fortunato Durutti Marinetti is playfully moody, wandering & inquisitive. His 2025 album Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter was Bandcamp’s Album of the Day as “a beautiful melding of Baroque art pop and vintage jazz.”

A night for music industry professionals to connect with new creatives! We love to see this initiative: www.eventbrite.com.br/e/tmusicians...

Coming to Toronto for the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference? Enjoy 20% off at The Drake Hotel from March 19-21! -Head to bit.ly/DrakeWMFC -Select travel dates -Click “check availability” at the bottom -Click on special code and select “rate access/corporate” code as code type & enter WAVE26

Our long national nightmare is over, the first BSS album in 9 years is nigh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJoq...

THIS MONTH! Rosie Wyse at Wavelength: Rosie incorporates classical elements with a raw unhinged approach towards her music. This dynamic combination creates an often uncomfortable atmosphere, in which beauty and ugliness take hold of each other, depicting the untraversed crevices of the psyche.

GUARANTEE YOUR SPOT: GET A WAVELENGTH PASS! Wavelength is excited to present Canadian musician Melissa Auf der Maur, former bassist for Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins for the Toronto launch of her new memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ‘90s Rock Memoir

#FlashbackFriday to @casperskulls.bsky.social at Camp WL 2018! This was the year that Camp WL moved to Fort York! Casper Skulls have been performing with WL for a decade, and their live shows are a force to be reckoned with: captivating audiences and turning heads!

Coming to the Wavelength Music Festival + Conference from Portugal: P.S. Lucas' solo performances weave Portuguese and English songwriting with finger-picked guitar and electronic textures, spanning his full career in intimate, improvisational sets.

Coming to Wavelength from Ireland under the legendary British label @4ad.com Maria Somerville spins childhood ballads into shoegaze-y storytelling. Non-linear but encompassing, her 2025 album Luster received critical acclaim including an 8.5/10 and a "Best New Music" title from Pitchfork.

WEP GARAGE SALE! EVERYTHING MUST GO! This Saturday is our last day at our office on Bartlett so we are having a clearance sale. We have books, records, $10 WEP t-shirts, back issues, tables, chairs and more! All priced to move. Saturday January 31st 12-4pm 3 Bartlett Ave