Wavelength Music Festival 16 | #WL16
February 12-14, 2016 – Toronto, Canada
Wavelength Music warms up winter with the 16th annual Wavelength Music Festival running from February 12 to 14, 2016 in downtown Toronto, Canada. #WL16 is a three-night live curated mixtape of the best new independent music coming out of Canada.Β Media accreditation for the festival is now open:Β .
2016’s festival programming is future-focused, as Wavelength has curated a line-up of the newest, freshest and most exciting sounds in the Canadian independent music scene.Β This year’s line-up includes Duchess Says, Foxtrott, Thus Owls, Foxes in Fiction, Calvin Love, She Devils, Soupcans, Beliefs, Keita Juma, Partner, Steven Lambke, Clairmont the Second and many more. (Full line-up below).
Individual event tickets are $12 and the all access festival pass is $39. Tickets and passes are available now online at TicketFly.comΒ and in Toronto at Rotate This (801 Queen Street West), Soundscapes (572 College Street), and Tiny Record Shop (804 Queen Street East).
#WL16 Festival Schedule:
Friday, February 12 @ The Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.)
FOXTROTT (Montreal / Electro-pop sophistication / One Little Indian / BjΓΆrk labelmates)
CALVIN LOVE (Toronto / Soul-pop sensation / Arts & Crafts)
KEITA JUMA (Toronto / Spacey psychedelic hip-hop emcee)
PROGRAMM (Toronto / Dream-time drone-pop / Sleepless Records)
ORGAN MOOD (Montreal / Psychedelic immersive audio-visual duo)
Doors at 7:30 p.m.
$12 advance / $16 door
19+
Ticket link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1049227
Saturday, February 13 @ Markham House City Building Lab (610 Markham St.)
FOXES IN FICTION (Brooklyn, NY / Hushed space-pop / Orchid Tapes)
MERGANZER (Toronto / Mika Posen’s experimental chamber pop)
STEVEN LAMBKE (Toronto / Constantines singer-songwriter / You’ve Changed Records)
Doors at 2:30 p.m.
$12 adv / $16 door
All Ages
Ticket link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1049283
Saturday, February 13 @ The Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.)
DUCHESS SAYS (Montreal / Dance-punk veterans, new album in 2016)
SOUPCANS (Toronto / Noisy aggro garage punk trio / Telephone Explosion Records)
BELIEFS (Toronto / Shoegaze swell-rocker / Hand Drawn Dracula)
PARTNER (Sackville, N.B. / Queer neo-grunge duo / You’ve Changed Records)
VERSA (Toronto / Post-rock meets live painting)
Doors at 7:30 p.m.
$12 adv / $16 door
19+
Ticket link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1049255
Sunday, February 14 @ The Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.)
THUS OWL (Montreal / Swedish-Canadian folktronica project / Secret City Records)
SHE DEVILS (Montreal / Buzzing ’60s retro yeye-popsters)
PRINCE INNOCENCE (Toronto / Silken electronic R&B pop)
CLAIRMONT THE SECOND (Toronto / Positive youthful hip-hop emcee)
PANTAYO (Toronto / Filipina kulintang ensemble)
Doors at 7:30 p.m.
$12 adv / $16 door
19+
Ticket link:Β https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1049277
ALL-ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS $39
Advance ticket outlets:
Rotate This (801 Queen St. W.)
Soundscapes (572 College St.)
Tiny Record Shop (804 Queen E.)
Ticketfly.com (exclusive online retailer)
Plus free pre-festival events at Markham House City Building Lab (610 Markham St):
Thursday, January 14 – 6 p.m.
Wavelength #ICYMI Gallery Opening
Featuring performance by Wavelength’s Incubator art-pop crew Most PeopleΒ and witchy electro by Animalia.
Sunday, January 17 – 3 p.m.
Artist Workshop w/ Josh Korody (Beliefs & Nailbiter)
Modular synthesis & guitar effects discussed with host Dean Williams
Sunday, January 31 – 3 p.m.
Panel Discussion:“What Makes a Music City?”