The musical trajectory of this year’s lineup was, in a sense, borrowed from the expanded and ever evolving musical oeuvre of the late Arthur Russell. Arthur’s limitless pallet and knowledge of...
White Rainbow is Adam Forkner from Portland, Oregon.
Since the late 90's Forkner has been pushing uncompromising psychedelic experimentation in all forms, releasing records on labels such as Kranky, Marriage...
***Performing as part of the official opening party for LOLA 2010 at Rum Runners with Zeus on Thursday September 16th. Tickets are available at...
Wild Domestic is a band that must be seen and heard live. Conceived and birthed in Sarnia, Ontario, this seven-piece collective boasts a vast array of musical stylings and techniques. From their exclusively...
The Correction Line Ensembleis a newly formed chamber ensemble involving six highly creative musicians from diverse backgrounds, weaving together an engaging and seamless conversation between...
RHYS CHATHAM TRUMPET TRIO (featuring Frank Rosaly & David Daniell) Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham has reached legendary status in experimental music circles, best-known most recently for high...
The Chicago Underground Duo formed in late 1997 as an organic offshoot of the larger Chicago Underground Collective. The Duo consists of Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics, piano) and Chad Taylor (percussion,...
Midland, Ontario. Back when this place was a wilderness, eight Jesuit priests were slaughtered by Iroquois; then canonized.
Midland gave you saints. Then kept quiet. For 350 years. Until three Born Ruffians...
Around the same time that Michigan’s Tadd Mullinix adopted his hip-hop oriented Dabrye alias, he also took on the acid house alias James T. Cotton. With its playful use of female Chinese vocals, the first Cotton...
About a year ago, Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith couldn’t swim. On a good day, he might get a decent doggy paddle going but, really, he could barely stay afloat. All that changed when his wife got him swimming lessons...
Trio Tarana is led by percussionist/composer Ravish Momin who currently resides in New York City. He was born in India, and spent his childhood in Mumbai (Bombay), & Bahrain (Middle-East.)
Since he had...
It is truly rare to find an artist like Invincible. Her spitfire wordplay has gotten her acclaim from Hip Hop fans all across the world, while her active involvement in progressive social change has taken her music...
What do you get when you combine ex-Rheostatic and current Ron Sexsmith drummer/producer Don Kerr, with Holy Fuck and King Cobb Steelie bassist Kevin Lynn, Feuermusik, Canaille and go-to indie-...
Fond of Tigers have been developing a complicated, beautiful sound since 2003. Featuring seven of Vancouver’s leading creative musicians, Fond of Tigers play a layered, nuanced music that explores musical...
Andycapp & Rod (Todd) Skimmins are two DJ’s, record collectors and all around music lovers who between share over 30 years worth of musical knowledge. Prior to 2005 both Andy and Todd had played separately at...
Spread across Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, Capillary Action are an all-acoustic quintet that cannibalize and intuitively synthesize the sharp-angled ferocity of DC hardcore, the melancholy...
TONY CONRAD (b. 1940) is one of the most compelling figures in 20th century music, a profoundly influential composer whose radical styles defies textbook definitions and challenge accepted notions of the minimalist...
My Brightest Diamond is spearheaded by Shara Worden, granddaughter of an Epiphone-playing traveling evangelist, fathered by a National Accordion Champion, and mothered by a classical organist. Having a family of...
Christopher Willits creates patterns of vibrations with sound and light, occupying a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and...
I am not loyal to any genre of music because they are culturally formed and thus not to be taken for granted as being any more than constructs. I see all musical elements, regardless of their predominance in...
Lead by Paul Frehner and Jill Ball, the Ensemble will perform Terry Riley's seminal minimalist composition 'In C' (1964), and lend a percussive marimba based interpretation to Philip Glass's '...
Leaf Bird is a Chicago-based experimental folk rock band led by guitarist and songwriter Tyler James Beach. In the winter of 2007, Beach enlisted fellow members of now-dormant Chicago underground staples Fingers...
Vanese Smith aka Pursuit Grooves is an electronic music producer, vocalist and live performance artist living in Brooklyn, New York. ‘Foxtrot Mannerisms’ is her first release on Tectonic, seeing the Bristol label...
Land of Talk is a female-fronted guitar rock juggernaut . They have been described as a destructive Stevie Nicks/Blonde Redhead mutant, Will Oldham meets Sonic Youth, and as a PJ Harvey-meets-Crazy Horse type...
The Text of Light group was formed in 2001 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage's film 'Text...
We have been playing our friend Arthur Russell's music for more than
thirty years--in the collaborative context of ARTHUR'S LANDING we
continue to revisit this body of work as the starting point for sonic...
With years of combined experience behind the decks and on-stage, The MAKEOVER -Rod Skimmins (Bang The Party) & Jeremy Glenn (YYZ Records) - bring a fresh-spin to the party performance. Taking the concepts of the...
Zeus is a Toronto-based Canadian indie rock band, signed to the record label Arts & Crafts, whose members include Rob Drake, Carlin Nicholson, Mike O'Brien, Neil Quin. Along with Afie Jurvanen, they formed...
Chris Meloche (b. Windsor, Ont., 1957) is an independent composer and performer of electronic, electroacoustic and computer music. He began creating electroacoustic works in 1980. He has persued independent studies...
Exit 2012 is an experimental and improvised band based out of London Ontario. It's members include Cailen Dye, Tim Glasgow, Jeremy Hobbs, Jeremy Ive and Peter Lebel. Some of their influences include Can, Brian Eno...
Thesis Sahib aka James Kirkpatrick, has been contributing to the underground hip hop movement for the past fifteen years, both as an innovative rapper and a well known graffiti artist. His articulate, rapid-fire...
The Light Of East Ensemble is an instrumental group based in London, Ontario. The band performs music from the Near and Middle East, including traditional, folk, classical Arabic, Greek Rembetika, and modern urban...
