16th Wavelength Music Festival Warms Up Winter

#WL16

TORONTO, CANADA – Wavelength Music warms up winter with the 16th annualWavelength 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. 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.com and will be available in Toronto at Rotate This (801 Queen Street West), Soundscapes (572 College Street), and Tiny Record Shop (804 Queen Street East) as of January 8, 2015.

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. Highlights include a strong Montreal contingent – including electro-pop crew Foxtrott(recently signed to UK label One Little Indian, also home to Björk), dance-punk vetsDuchess Says (who created massive buzz at M for Montreal, with a new album on the way), Swedish/Canadian folktronica project Thus Owls, and ’60s retro yeye-popsters She Devils (who recently made NME’s Top 5 Canadian bands list) – as well as Sackville, New Brunswick’s queer neo-grunge duo Partner, who got a shoutout from the titular Hollywood star for their song “The (Ellen) Page.” The diverse sounds of Toronto are represented by Filipina kulintang ensemble Pantayo, youthful, positive hip-hop emceeClairmont the Second, shoegaze rockers Beliefs, soulful popster Calvin Love, and aggro noise punks Soupcans. All evening concerts will take place at The Garrison (1197 Dundas Street West).

To complement the festival, Wavelength will remount last winter’s Pop-Up Galleryexhibition with Wavelength: #ICYMI, a display of concert posters, photos, festival art and ephemera at Mirvish Village’s new community hub, the Markham House City Building Lab. Located at 610 Markham Street, the

exhibition will officially open on January 14 and run through February 14. Leading up to the festival, Wavelength will host a free Sunday afternoon talk series at Markham House, featuring an artist workshop with Josh Korody (Beliefs/Nailbiter) on January 17 and a panel discussion,What Makes a Music City?, on January 31. Markham House will also stage Wavelength’s all ages afternoon concert as part of #WL16 on Saturday, February 13featuring Brooklyn, NY’s hushed space-pop artist Foxes in Fiction, experimental chamber pop artist Merganzer, and singer-songwriter Steven Lambke (of the Constantines).

Toronto’s original independent music community hub, Wavelength is a non-profit arts organization renowned for its curatorial foresight and championing of a diverse array of emerging artists. Wavelength had a massive 15th year in 2015, launching its new overnight camping and multi-arts festival, Camp Wavelength on Toronto Island – which was lauded as one of Toronto’s best festivals of the year by NOW Magazine, BlogTO and ChartAttack – as well as running a Pop-Up Gallery venue, hosting a provocative talk series, and an incredible “Past, Present & Future” edition of the Wavelength Music Festival. Wavelength was recently recognized with a nomination for Torontoist’s “Heroes” of 2015 list, with the publication stating “it’s hard to imagine what Toronto’s music scene would look like without Wavelength’s influence.”

#WL16 Festival Schedule:

Doors at 7:30 p.m.

$12 advance / $16 door

19+

Doors at 2:30 p.m.

$12 adv / $16 door

All Ages

Doors at 7:30 p.m.

$12 adv / $16 door

19+

Doors at 7:30 p.m.

$12 adv / $16 door

19+

Advance ticket outlets:

Rotate This (801 Queen St. W.)

Soundscapes (572 College St.)

Tiny Record Shop (804 Queen E.)

Ticketfly.com (exclusive online retailer)

Artist Workshop w/ Josh Korody (Beliefs & Nailbiter)

Modular synthesis & guitar effects discussed with host Dean Williams

Panel Discussion:“What Makes a Music City?”