CMW 2015 Day 6

Yikes!

The choices are getting harder! Take a deep breath, go with your gut or have someone else do the choosing. Never a dull moment!

Bovine Sex Club how's about the Marvelous Beauhunks? The Sole Pursuit? settle in and let the night    

                             drift by

Burdock (1184 Bloor West)  Indica records Showcase with Hein Cooper/Tora/Elliot Maginot and                                                  

                                                others

Cameron House Greg Mashinter/Flying Museum Band/Jessica Stuart Few and friends

Danforth Music Hall (concert lottery) Walk Off The Earth (it will be all ages)

Drake Underground Secret Broadcast/Slow Down Molasses

Horseshoe Tavern Swervedrive et al.

Opera House buy a ticket for this..limited wristbands Xavier Rudd!!! You're welcome

Parts and Labour Techromancer, and Bravestation (insist they play Haven)

Rivoli  Honeyrunners/Mother Leads (love this band)

Supermarket whole mess of good stuff and Diamond Bones

Stay tuned for Day 7!

Cheers!!!

CMW 2015 Day 5 Yikes!

Greetings, earthlings.

The schedule is back in full swing today with oodles to pick from. Spending way too much time listening to the bands online while makes choices. Try that if you are overwhelmed. It helps, kinda.

Here's the Tuesday picks from yours truly.

Cameron House Wow. A great line up with 1977, Bloody Five, TV Sets, Autopilot and more!

The Garrison (Toronto Women in Music) Another interesting collection of folk including Maya
                        Postepski from Austra DJ set. Check her out on Soundcloud

The Horseshoe Indie 88's Nu Music Night (we won't hold that against them). The Zilis rock hard.

Painted Lady Bride and Groom, Big Name Actors and friends. Hotcha!

Rancho Relaxo Great food, great music. Lost Cousins worth the wait.

Smiling Buddha Cat Clyde and The Dead Bees plus a whole lot more.

Check the website for the full line up. You can't go wrong wherever the night takes you.

See ya tomorrow

CMW Day 4

Hey everybody!

Monday is a work day, so it's an easy choice unless you have the luck of the concert lottery (Of Monsters and Men at Massey Hall, Noel Gallagher at Sony Centre)
Free show at ShangriLa  Cary Shields, or Sneaky Dee's Steven Joseph

Cheers! Back tomorrow

CMW Day 3

Hey everybody!

Sunday is thought by many to be a day of rest.
Four choices is more restful than having to decide between 20, right?

The Garrison go early, there are limited wristbands (or buy tickets) The Blow, Anna Oxygen

Revival Rebel Coast, Navigate The Sky and more

Unless you win the Concert lottery for Noel Gallagher's band (Sony Centre), head to Parks and Labour
for Philly Moves, Johnny Active.

See you tomorrow. Rest up, OK?

CMW Day 2 2015

Hey everybody!

Off to a great start on Day 1, and it just keeps rolling!
Here's some thoughts for Day 2 but everything on the schedule is amazing.

The Bovine hosts Kill Matilda as well as Pool Boy and others

Cherry Cola's Rock 'n Rolla brings us a strong lineup including The Anti-Queens

Hard Luck Bar brings us We Were Sharks, First Ghost and friends

The Horseshoe (limited wristbands) has FIDLAR, Bandicoots and Gingerale and the Monowhales

SilverDollar for those who missed them last night ZOOBOMBS, Mimico, The Disrealis and others

Velvet Underground the Nursery, The Writer's Society and more!

Wish the cloning techology was more practical...

See you tomorrow

CMW Day One 2015

Hey ho everybody!

Hope you bought new running shoes because there is loads of great stuff to see and hear this year.

Over the next 10 days, yours truly will be making random (and some not so random) picks of what looks like a good time. Of course, you can never go wrong with any of the performances at CMW.

So here we go:

For Day 1:

What's CMW without The Bloody Five ? They will be at The Bovine along with Apartments and a host of others. Hard rocking tonight!

The Legendary Horseshoe has Thomas D'Arcy and (are you ready?) Daniel Lanois!

Lee's Palace hosts Protomartyr and Metz. Get tickets for this one, it will be popular.

Phoenix Concert Hall has, among others, Gateway Drugs and Jesus and Mary Chain (yes, that Jesus      

and Mary Chain) Accept no imitations.                                     

The Silver Dollar has Christian Punk Band, Dying Arts and one word: ZOOBOMBS 

The Great Hall (again, look into tickets) will include The Two Koreas and FIDLAR in their Friday lineup

The Hideout  will host Indian Handcrafts and friends

The Opera House includes Red City Radio amongst the stellar lineup.

And that just scratches the surface.

Check the CMW website for other shows and venues.

Stay tuned for Day 2 on Saturday.

Cheers!

Ruby Slippers May 1 7-8 pm CMW Part One

Hey everybody!

It's the start of Canadian Music Week and wow, this thing of picking music for the show has been so very hard. Thankfully there are two shows to fill. However, besides these picks, there are tons of excellent bands playing throughout the festival and all you have to do is close your eyes, stick your finger on the schedule and go.
Never been disappointed!
Each day, I will post some of the venues and bands that piqued my interest, keep a weather eye on the blog.
In the meantime, here is this week's playlist.'
Enjoy!

Red Action ... Indian Handcrafts * CMW
Blues Festival ... Protomartyr * CMW
Black Wine Of The owl ... Gateway Drugs CMW
Poor Man's Tony Wilson Blues ... Two Koreas * CMW
No Waves ... Fidlar CMW
In A Hole ... The Jesus and Mary Chain CMW (yes indeed!)
Cartoons ...TV Sets * CMW
Blood On The Microphone ... Jon Cohen Experimental * CMW
For Lust Fire ... Johny West (not CMW, but a first listen in Canada)
Cities ... Gold Complex * CMW
Calming Her ... Tora CMW
Thunder (Cousins) ... Vogue Dots * CMW
The Real ... Hein Cooper CMW
Time ... Fast Romantics * CMW
Authentic ... the Dying Arts * CMW
Faster Loser ... Negative Lovers (new)

Next week, CMW Part 2.

Watch the blog for more great music!
And as always, thanks for listening.

*Cancon