Your biweekly source of the best left-field pop/rock/punk/dance from Canada, Australia and beyond. This week: Multiple songs from Hamilton’s Haolin Monks and Grey Records’ excellent Grey Matter compilation. Also, the answer to the question, if someone pitches me a band that sounds like “Pet Shop Boys meets My Bloody Valentine at a Stereolab concert,” am I going to play it. Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes, I will.
Bonus spoiler: The band in question (Smaller Hearts) delivers.
Yer setlist:
Ubik, Lost and Later
Cold Meat, Love in a Void
Heart Beach, Need
Smaller Hearts, Chipper
Zöe Fox and the Rocket Clocks, Warrior Princess
Spiral Perm, Santa at NASA
Eekwol feat. Boogey the Beat
Haolin Munk, Deep Space Float (f. Lee Reed)
Navy Gangs, Housekeeping
Speedy Ortiz, Lucky 88
Shirley & the Pyramids, More than the Sun
Great Earthquake, Learn to Love the Ordinary
Orlando Furious, Rage
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/arD_5YGJdQ0?rel=0
The Garrys, Swamp Stomp
Nylex, Fascinate
Haolin Monk, Astro’s Revenge (f. Emay)
Sightlines, Love Ethic
IV League, Superstar
All the Rage 