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September 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Jom Comyn – Sunstroke EP

From the brutalist centre of Jared Majeski:
Mentioned before are the utterances and inspirations one communicates through simple habitation of an isolated, brutalist centre like Edmonton. Pleasantly mercurial, Jom Comyn’s disparate croonerism makes us venture not waaaaaaay up, but way in; another rural-reared summation of despair, darkness, love and family. Sunstroke fuses steady melody (“Hatchet in the Garage”), sharp-toned proggy instrumentation (“Heatstroke”) and neighbourly back-up; all of course lathed with that familiar subtly of Jim Cuming’s monochromatic vocals. Wherever your tiny existence rests each night, remember to collect dust, soak up the eternal cold and take heed of your surroundings.

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Jom Comyn – Hatchet in Garage

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Jom Comyn – Heatstroke

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September 29th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – YT//ST

From the commingling of Aaron Levin:
In an fantastic parade of taxonomic bewilderment, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan obliterate all genre formality by conjuring a liquefaction of musical licentiousness. The self-proclaimed “Noh-Wave” coalesces a transderivational morphology through J-Pop, prog, black metal, Iroquois social songs, Chinese opera, Noh theatre, noise, and hard rock. This trans-cultural orchestra of post-data shreddery is a testament to the limits of human sensation. YT//ST reset the standard for every creative visionary. They’ve put the whole damned system on trial. GRIPPPPPPPP.

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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – Queens

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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – A Star Over Pureland

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September 29th, 2011

Festivities :: Jennifer Castle [Western Tour]

  • Jennifer Castle
  • Western Tour
  • (Flemish Eye)
  • + Vancouver, BC
  • + Edmonton, AB
  • + Calgary, AB
From the western abstraction of Aaron Levin:
Standing by our never-ending infatuation with all things Jennifer Castle, Weird Canada is proud to partner with Flemish Eye, Beatroute Magazine, and Sled Island in presenting three evenings of ethereal reverberations. For the lucky druidics mingling around Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary, we welcome your participatory magik while this otherworldly hippie goddess from the east conjures her delicate, finger-picked minimalism. Please, join us.

## Vancouver, BC

- Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011:
- Location: Electric Owl Social Club (928 Main St.)
- With: The Ruffled Feathers, David Vertesi
- Price: $10 / $12
- Link: facebook
- Presented By: Beatroute Magazine & Weird Canada

## Edmonton, AB

- Date: Friday, September 30, 2011:
- Location: ARTery (9535 Jasper Ave.)
- With: Kris Ellestad, Smoke+Band, Mark Templeton
- Price: $10
- Link: facebook
- Presented By: Weird Canada & Flemish Eye

## Calgary, AB

- Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011:
- Location: Cantos Music Foundation
- With: Kris Ellestad
- Price: $10
- Link: facebook
- Presented By: Sled Island

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September 28th, 2011

Departures :: Ken Lewis – Cosmic Cars b/w Best Beat

  • Ken Lewis
  • Cosmic Cars b/w Best Beat
  • (Scorpio Records)
  • Toronto, ON
  • Originally Released: 1982
From the dubious disco of Brandon Hocura:
Ken Lewis’ reverent cover of Cosmic Cars released in 1982, the same year as the original Cybotron 45, proves that people were almost immediately feeling Juan Atkins’ electric ripples just North of the assembly line. Released on Scorpio Records, home of countless dubious disco, boogie rap and dub records with peculiar provenance, Ken’s whip is more deluxe DeLorean than hot Spinner, his cruising spin more Grace Jones than The Normal. Although his version almost mechanically reproduces the original, it feels like a glossy photograph of a photocopy; the recording less raw and in-the-red, the drum machine less biting, the cold-creep synth noises replaced by a cold-sweat guitar riff. Still, Ken’s facsimile evokes a dystopian future, not the super-industrial cyber-sexuality of Cronenberg, but a world of simulacra coated in a vacuous veneer of replicated pleasures, like Ryu Murakami’s depictions of Tokyo. Still this record bumps and burns when played loud, so thumb a ride if you ever see this avant-coupe roll by.

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Ken Lewis – Cosmic Cars

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September 27th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Mallory Knox – Pus Crunk Luv

  • Mallory Knox
  • Pus Crunk Luv
  • (Self Released)
  • Winnipeg, MB
  • ::web/sounds::
From the technicolour yawn of Taylor Burgess:
HEY YOU GENDER-FLUID, CAPITALISM-REVOLTING, QUEER-FRIENDLY THING. Are you and your friends sick of dirty cops and how they crack down on the unprivileged rather than white collar crime? Does your punk scene have wayyyyyy too much machismo? Do you get strange looks any time you put on Top 40 hip hop at a party (To steal back the sweet beats, disregard the hateful lyrics n tweets!!)? Well Mallory Knox is an anarchistic dose of sensibility. She makes tunes ranging from straight-up Top 40 auto-tune covers to blistering original folk punk anthems, and every modulation in between. Shoplifting lyrics from Cormac McCarthy and beats from Black Eyed Peas, no copyrighted content is safe. Mallory Knox doesn’t really trust me, you, or anyone either, but she probably has faith in us, otherwise she wouldn’t hand out these tapes for free.

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Mallory Knox – I Hate You

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Mallory Knox – Puke Shit

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September 26th, 2011

Tournée Banale :: Tournée Banale Avant-Garde 4

  • AIDS Wolf
  • Tournée Banale Avant-Garde 4
  • [Dir. By: AIDS Wolf]
  • (European Tour 2011)
  • ::web/visuals::
From the glass damage of Aaron Levin:
Danke Shoen, the latest expose on touring banality in our ongoing feature Tournée Banale, shows AIDS Wolf posed with one of the most mundane tasks: keys locked in car. Enjoy in moderation.

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September 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Chief Thundercloud – June Street

From the door crack of Gabriel Jasmin:
A collected batch of strung out six string slumps, some barely audible and some blown-out noisy, sewn together to give a rough impression of Chief Thundercloud’s inner demons. At times so very close and personal, it feels like listening in through a door crack to your roommate playing silently. Side A holds 19 short originals and the B side is 12 surprising, hollowed-out cover songs, ranging from the Spice Girls to CCR to the most uncool, anti-wanker version of Freebird ever recorded.

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Chief Thundercloud – Almost Gone

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Chief Thundercloud – Freebird

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Chief Thundercloud – Stuck Underwater

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September 22nd, 2011

To the east, fringeward.

Edmonton, AB has been a great source of inspiration and despair. Desolate winters, northern isolation, and one of the worst public transit systems in Canada breed an unruly class of desperate prairie sky-gazers brimming with creative potential; alas, this disparate, tundradic paradise of the north has captured our eyes for long enough.

In a strategic move of life-questioning proportions, Weird Canada HQ is moving to Toronto, ON.

Since our conjuring, we’ve scoured the Canadian landscape searching for sinusoidal ley lines. Medicine Hat? Brandon? Truoro? Sherbrooke? Sydney? Nelson? Perth? Ponoka? Kamloops? Cortes? Possibilities are abundant. But we’re leaping into the centre of the volcano and hope to emerge a phoenix: Ontario will be our home for the next chapter in Weird Canada’s narrative.

Friends: we are looking for unique partnerships in the hope of creating a more collaborative, supportive, and efficient underground community in Ontario and beyond. We are short on resources and long on vision. If you’re interested in working with us, please get in touch.

To the east, fringeward.

Hearts,

Aaron Levin & Marie Lef
Weird Canada

PS – I will be forwarding mail to a new address. If you can help it, please reach out to submissions [at] weirdcanada [dot] com to receive our new address.

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September 21st, 2011

New Canadiana :: istagamble! – Which House?

From the supercharged particle of Jessica Faulds:
Wedding hip-pop beats to the screams of mortally wounded modems, itsagamble! is the arbiter of an arranged marriage (“Do you, fried circuit board, take this fat beat…?”) that has blossomed into love. Leaving behind flora and fauna, Rob Ross chronicles the mating rituals of robots: the tentative caress of electrons across a breadboard, melodrama chopped then screwed to a wall of electromagnetic interference (“Baby Maker”), and slow jamming (“Fox”) that builds breakbeats out of sex-chimes, all glazed in Kraftwerkian synth flavours. Which House? hops valences quicker than a supercharged particle but keeps it somewhere within the sphere drum’n'bass’n'saw wave’n'laser’n'I could go on… Tin foil chewers, bite down on this.

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itsagamble! – Baby Maker

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itsagamble! – Fox

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itsagamble! – When Did I Disappear

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September 21st, 2011

Festivities :: Pop Montreal 2011 [Montreal, QC]

From the daytime jammery of Aaron Levin:
Pop Montreal is blazing through the Canadian cosmos once again. This year, we’re proud to partner with Canada’s pop monolith for not one, but two infinite jams. On Thursday September 22nd Weird Canada’s official showcase will feature a master-blaster of genre transformation: Grand Trine, THOMAS, Babysitter, Chevalier Avant-Garde, and Silver Dapple. To concatonate this psychedelic concoction, on Friday September 23rd and Saturday September 24th we’re teaming up with our best-buds Psychic Handshake for two days of afternoon showcases featuring: The Pink Noise, Velvet Chrome, Sans AIDS, Hot & Cold, Holy Cobra, High Rise II, Grand Trine, Jef Barbara, and other wyld artifacts. We thoroughly encourage you to check out the entirety of Pop Montreal’s psychic offerings, as well (obviously!). STAY TRIPPIN’.

## Official Showcase

- Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011:
- Location: Casa del Popolo (4873 boul. Saint-Laurent)
- Price: $10
- Link: facebook

## Afternoon Mayhem #1

- Date: Friday, September 23, 2011:
- Location: The Plant / La Plante (185 Van Horne)
- Price: (PWYC)
- Link: facebook

## Afternoon Mayhem #1

- Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011:
- Location: The Plant / La Plante (185 Van Horne)
- Price: (PWYC)
- Link: facebook

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