OK…you have worked a long hard week, but live music never sleeps, so get out there and check out some bands. Here’s our picks for NXNE 2015 Day 3 (June 19).
Wish 8 pm @ Danforth Music Hall
Comprising members of Beliefs, Milk Lines, and Decades, Wish shreds your youth through a cheese grater and melts it onto a scratched up CD. They cut, copy, and time-stretch your first high and place it into your permanent present.
Muuy Biien 9 pm @ The Garrison
Muuy Biien is the real thing. No college degrees, no connections, no future: kids in their 20’s raised in the Georgia countryside, born to work in fast food. The band members met while all working at a fried chicken chain. But art springs forth from the unlikeliest of places. The power of DIY is palpable and real, but so is the sense of craft that hangs over it.
VOTIIV 10 pm @ The Garrison
VOTIIV [vōtiv] is a Toronto-based electronic duo consisting of Kat Duma and Cam Findlay. Their dark, post-industrial inspired sound challenges the boundaries of pop, while maintaining a slick techno aesthetic.
Dilly Dally 11 pm @ Silver Dollar Room
Toronto’s Dilly Dally make the sort of grunge pop that inspires you to think that maybe – just maybe – you could pull off the kind of devil-may-care aggression that seems to come so easy for the four-piece. They’re a band undoubtedly bred in the Toronto community, carrying the mantel of aggressive punk frustrations throughout their active touring schedule.
Warpaint 12 am @ Adelaide Hall
It’s been 11 years since Warpaint formed and six since they officially put out their debut EP – 2009’s ‘Exquisite Corpses’. You knew even back then that the four-piece rock band of Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg, and Stella Mozgawa were the sound of something big.
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Dead Leaf Echo 12 am @ Rancho Relaxo (not an official NXNE show)
Brooklyn’s Dead Leaf Echo is an music/art collective that released their debut LP “Thought and Language” in 2013. The album had clear 4AD influences as it was mixed by John Fryer (Lush, NIN, Depeche Mode) with artwork by the label’s legendary designer V23’s Vaughan Oliver (Pixies, Bauhaus). Their latest EP “true.deep.sleeper” released in 2014 saw them working with Monte Vallier (Weekend, Wax Idols).
Ontario Hospital 2 am @ The Garrison
Ontario Hospital is a new collaboration between Dave Foster (Huren, Teste, Obscene Mannequin) and Rich Oddie (Orphx, Eschaton, Oureboros). These veterans of industrial noise and fringe techno filth are aiming for new levels of sonic degradation and ritualized catharsis. Expect an emphasis on volume and confrontation.
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