PROGRAM GUIDE OVER 250 BANDS PLUS FILM, ART & COMEDY ACROSS 30+ VENUES!

MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL CALGARY, ALBERTA JUNE 19-22, 2013

Sled Island Staff Claire Allore - Film Program Assistant Kelsey Baker - Administrative Assistant TABLE OF CONTENTS Jeanette Burman - Film Coordinator/Programmer Phil Cimolai - Technical Director Jesse Cumming - Film Programming Assistant 07 CURATOR/DIRECTOR NOTES Linnea Dixon - Volunteer Coordinator Alex Eakins - Partnerships Assistant 08 FILM Colin Gallant - Web Content Nivedita Iyer - Merchandising Coordinator Natasha Jensen - Visual Arts Curator/Coordinator 11 ART Megan Jorgensen-Nelson - Box Office Coordinator Drew Marshall - Marketing Coordinator 14 COMEDY Rachel Park - Graphic Designer Shawn Petsche - Festival Manager 17 SPECIAL EVENTS Maud Salvi - Executive Director Paisley Sim - Artist Logistics Coordinator 21 ALL AGES Michelle Slade - Press Assistant Colin Smith - Sustainability Coordinator 23 BAND BIOS Catie St. Jacques - Event Assistant - Film 37 PULLOUT SLED ISLAND SCHEDULE Board of Directors Christina Colenutt 67 EAST VILLAGE EVENTS Peter Maitland Brian Milne 69 GREEN ISLAND Dan Northfield Zak Pashak 72 DISCOUNT GUIDE Chad Saunders Craig Stenhouse 76 THANKS LIST Scott Wenger 78 SPONSORS Sled Island Film Committee Adele Brunnhofer Jeanette Burman Richard Larson Drew Marshall HOW TO aTTend Jesse Pruden Evan Wilson sled island Visual Director Entering its seventh year, Sled Island is an annual independent music and arts festival featuring over 250 bands plus film, Ross Milne / Working Format art and comedy across 30+ venues in Calgary from June 19 -22. We offer a number of ways to explore and discover this Booking staggering amount of music and art. Amy Hersenhoren Zak Pashak FESTIVAL DISCOVERY PASS I $199 Our first recommendation for anyone wanting the full festival experience. Armed with a Festival Discovery Pass, you’ll have Publicity Grace Jones - requiem media access to all Sled Island events, subject to capacity. Really can’t go wrong with this one! Available at sledisland.com.

Website Design FESTIVAL DISCOVERY PLUS PASS I $349 Structured Abstraction The ‘premium deluxe’ option features everything the Festival Discovery Pass provides, with the upgrade of priority access www.structuredabstraction.com to all Sled Island events, subject to capacity, plus Artist Lounge privileges, your very own Sled swag and a whole lot more! Program Guide Manager Available at sledisland.com. Todd Harkness ALL-AGES FESTIVAL PASS I $50 Editor Created specifically for our “under 18” buddies, an All-Ages Pass offers full access to the all-ages venues. Please note that Sebastian Buzzalino the All-Ages Pass is for holders under 18 years old only. Cover Illustration Ed Kwong SLED ISLAND FILM PASS | $30 Only interested in film? Get access to all films and film events (registration is still required for NCC workshop!). Pullout Schedule Design Mason Hastie OLYMPIC PLAZA TICKETS I FRI: $40 SAT: $50 Production Assistants Olympic Plaza is the festival’s main outdoor venue featuring headliner performances. A ticket offers guaranteed access into Ron Joe one of the days at Olympic Plaza. This is a licensed event with an outdoor beer garden. Welcome to all-ages! Kids 12 and Rachel Park under get in free. Megan Paterson

Writing FLAMES CENTRAL TICKETS I FRI: $30 SAT: $25 Sebastian Buzzalino One of the premier large venues in Calgary, Flames Central features performances by Joel Plaskett Emergency and guests on Colin Gallant Friday, June 21 and Divine Fits and guests on Saturday, June 22. Ticket holders are guaranteed access. Nivedita Iyer Cory Jones John Julius SINGLE SHOW TICKETS PJ Lavergne A limited number of advance tickets are available for select shows throughout the festival. See the website for a complete Shawn Petsche listing of shows with advance tickets on sale. Lee Shedden Evan Wilson Advance tickets for Olympic Plaza, Flames Central and more are available online at sledisland.com and at select retail Ad Sales outlets including: Sloth Records, Heritage Posters and Music, The Uncommons, Purr, and Luke’s Drug Mart. Glenn Alderson Karolina Gajewska WALK-UP TICKETS PUBLISHER Door tickets are available for those looking to catch last-minute action, show up early to get in! Prices Vary. Available at all BeatRoute Magazine venues (except for OFF! at Commonwealth) during the festival subject to capacity. 5

CURATORS CURATORS/DIRECTOR

JOHN DWYER GUEST CURATOR Festival favourite John Dwyer, singer and guitarist for the critically-acclaimed San Francisco-based, psych-tinged, Krautrock- inspired garage rockers, Thee Oh Sees, returns as guest curator for Sled Island 2013. TFormerly a member of Coachwhips, the Hospitals and Zeigenbock Kopf, Dwyer has earned his reputation as a wholly engaging live entertainer and as one of the best and most challenging independent songwriters working today. This reputation was cemented at Sled Island during Thee Oh Sees’ jaw-dropping 2011 set, which is still hailed as one of the best performances in the festival’s history.

This year, Dwyer has hand-picked bands from across North America, ranging from lo-fi, bilingual pop, to psychedelic garage rock, to stomping surf rock. What the following bands all have in common is his personal stamp of approval:

The Beets (Jackson Heights, NY) The Blind Shake (Minneapolis, MN) Burnt Ones (San Francisco, CA) Cop City/Chill Pillars (Orlando, FL) Heidi Alexander (San Francisco, CA) Running (Chicago, Il) Warm Soda (Oakland, CA)

Make sure to catch one of multiple sets by each of these artists throughout the festival, and join John Dwyer and his band Thee Oh Sees as they headline a two-floor party showcasing the full list of his curated bands on Saturday, June 22nd at the No.1 Royal Canadian Legion! MAUD SALVI SLED ISLAND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR When I landed in Calgary on January 22 and found myself face to face with a giant dinosaur while waiting for my suitcase, it did cross my mind: “What have I done? Is this job really worth it?” Today I can tell you that yes, absolutely it was. For the past five months, I haven’t had much time to look back, as I’ve been living, eating and breathing Sled Island — and loving every minute of it.

This edition is going to be pretty magical. Heading into our seventh year, we’ve got more exciting things lined up than ever before. With 250 bands, comedians and an amazing selection of films and art shows, there will be hard choices to make but, really, is having to make up your mind between Iceage and Swans, or Superchunk and Jon Spencer, such a bad dilemma in which to find yourself?

During Sled, the rules aren’t the same: it’s okay to talk to strangers. In the true spirit of the festival, be sure to share a beer with someone you don’t know and follow them to see a band you’ve never heard of — it often makes for the best memories. And if you happen to run into some of our staff, please give them a high five. By the time you get your wristband, they will have all sacrificed their sleep, social lives and sanity to bring you a week of pure fun. So, even if you’re caught in a lineup, don’t forget to lend them a smile.

Finally, in an effort to let you down easy and help you cope with the dreaded post-festival blues, we’ve lined up some great movies to ease you into the following week. Unwind, reminisce, catch a great film and savour the last moments of this very special time of the year.

Thank you all so much for your support and for sharing this with us. A city is only as good as its people and Calgary is a pretty great place to be right now. TIM HECKER GUEST CURATOR Joining Dwyer to shape Sled Island 2013’s programming is the celebrated and hugely influential Montreal-based electronic artist, Tim Hecker. Hailed as one of the most significant ambient musicians since Brian Eno, Hecker has been staggeringly consistent in his recorded and live output under his own name and through collaborations with Stephen O’Malley, Aidan Baker (Nadja) and Oneohtrix Point Never. Following his superb and powerful Hillhurst United Church set at Sled Island 2012, Hecker has brought his uniquely cerebral and emotive touch to programming as the festival’s first electronic music curator. His selections include:

Colin Stetson (Montreal, QC) Jerusalem In My Heart (Montreal, QC) Le Révélateur (Montreal, QC) Pete Swanson (Brooklyn, NY) Rene Hell (Los Angeles, CA)

Together, they represent perhaps the most exciting and experimental music to be showcased at Sled Island in its seven years.

Make sure to start your festival off with a set by one of Hecker’s most talked-about selections, Colin Stetson, then don’t miss the remainder of his artists play at the beautiful Vertigo Theatre, which debuts this year as a Sled Island venue.

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JUNE 18 – JUNE 25, 2013 We are thrilled to present the 7th edition of Sled Is- land film, complete with exciting premieres, special events, guests and after-parties. For trailers, bios and more details, visit sledisland.com.

All events are All-Ages unless noted. Admission is included with: Sled Island Discovery, Discovery Plus, and Film Passes. Individual tickets will be available. xo Jeanette Burman, Film Coordinator

APOCALYPSE PATIO PARTY TUES JUNE 18, 3:30 PM: BROKEN CITY PATIO, FREE EVENT Join us for an afternoon patio party with great music by DJ Gary and the amazing folks at Broken City Sign Painters Co-presented with the National Music Centre before the screening of Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Followed by NMC ONDES MARTENOT DEMONSTRATION Tour Film. wed june 19, 7:20 pM: glenbow museum (conocophillips theatre) 8:30pm, admission to demonstration by donation or Sign Painters is a beautiful and surprisingly touch- with film admission. Apocalypse: ing tribute of the endangered craft of hand-lettered A Bill Callahan Tour Film sign-making, a once widespread trade that has The Mystery in old bathbath come close to obsolescence thanks to the prolifera- thurs june 20, 10:45 pM: tubby dog TUES JUNE 18, 6 PM: BROKEN CITY tion of computer designs, die-cut vinyl lettering and free event FREE EVENT inkjet printers. Sled Island Music Alumni/Guest Curators (2010) This poetic concert doc follows American songwriter USA 2012, 90 min, Alberta Premiere Quintron & Ms. Pussycat present their latest totally, Bill Callahan on his 2011 Apocalypse tour, providing Director: Faythe Levine and Sam Macon fantastical, magical, and mysterious puppet rare and intimate portrayals of his life on the road, Co-presented with the Glenbow Museum adventure of their ongoing series, Trixie and the his band and, of course, his music. Treetrunks, that originally aired on Vice’s VBS USA 2012, 61 min, Alberta Premiere channel. Director: Hanly Banks secret cinema bike-in: USA 2012, 45 min, Canadian Premiere french new wave classic Director: Panacea Theriac museum hours wed june 19, 10:30 pM: tues june 18, 7:20 pM: glenbow simmons building. north country cinema artist museum (conocophillips theatre) free event (weather permitting) opening screening Sled Island and the Calgary Society of Independent talk and workshop In the latest from indie film stalwart Jem Cohen, a Filmmakers are pleased to present our 2013 Secret sat june 22, 2 pM: guard at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Art Museum Cinema Bike-In! Bring your ride, your honey and your central memorial park library befriends an enigmatic visitor (Canadian music icon blanket for this surprise French New Wave classic $15 ($10 for csif members) Mary Margaret O’Hara), sparking an exploration of (on 16mm!). The film will not be announced until the Sled Island guest film curators Alexander Carson and their lives and the ways in which artworks reflect night of the screening. Kyle Thomas of North Country Cinema will discuss and shape the world. France 1962 balancing creative goals and financial restraints USA/Austria 2012, 106 min, Alberta Premiere Co-presented with the Calgary Society of while building a body of work, the significance of Director: Jem Cohen Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) regional filmmaking practices and the challenges Co-presented with the Glenbow Museum and advantages to building an art cinema scene in wavemakers Calgary. Limited space available - online registration re- Suuns Europe 2011 (Le Chant des ondes) quired. Workshop includes admission to NCC shorts wed june 19, 6:30 pM: thurs june 20, 6:30 pM: program on Sunday June 23, 2013 at The Globe. national music centre, free event national music centre Suuns Europe 2011 is rumination on the themes of Wavemakers tracks an ensemble of characters (in- spectacle, voyage and identity. The film follows the cluding Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood) in their quest soundtrack karaoke Montreal band as they tour in support of their debut to re-discover the fascinating Ondes Martenot, a sat june 22, 9 pM: texas lounge album Zeroes QC. Don’t miss Suuns live at Sled sophisticated and extremely rare early electronic free event, 18+ 2013. instrument that proved to be simply ahead of its Join us for a very special night of karaoke with a Canada 2012, 51 min, Alberta Premiere time. Admission includes live Ondes Martenot focus on soundtrack classics! Come on down and Director: Andi State demonstration. belt out your faves, from Pretty in Pink, to Rushmore Co-presented with the National Music Centre Canada 2012, 100 min, Alberta Premiere and many more. Director: Caroline Martel 8 SLED ISLAND FILM SIGN PAINTERS

WATERPARK I USED TO BE DARKER north country cinema shorts The Day the Earth Stood Still Grimes - “Oblivion” sun june 23, 3:30 pM: globe cinema mon june 24, 9 pM: globe cinema Dir. Kai Bock / D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2012 Solar Year - “Brotherhood” Our guest film curators have programmed an A true sci-fi classic,The Day the Earth Stood Still astonishing selection of recent shorts premiering begins as the story of an alien visitor, yet is soon Dir. Kai Bock, 2012 at Sled Island from around the world. These films humanized as we see how such an event reverber- Spit Gold Under An Empire reflect the grit and personal vision that define NCC. ates through society. Even a Keanu Reeves remake Dir. Kai Bock, 2013 Special guests in attendance! can’t hinder this film’s golden status. Majical Cloudz - “Childhood’s End” The Chair Dir. Grainger David, 12 min, USA, USA 1951, 92 min, 16mm Dir. Kai Bock, 2013 2011, Alberta Premiere Director: Robert Wise Mac Demarco - “Exercising With My taxi for two Dir. Dan Popa, 13 min, Canada Co-presented with the University of Calgary Film Demons” Dir. Prosofsky, 2011 (QC), 2012 , Canadian Premiere Society PARLOVR - “You Only Want You It ‘Cause love story Dir. Ása Hjorleifsdóttir, 17 min, USA/ You’re Lonely” D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2012 Iceland, 2012, Canadian Premiere the legend of kaspar hauser (la Haerts - “Wings” girl Dir. Fijona Jonuzi, 15 min, Sweden, 2011, Dir. Kai Bock / D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2013 leggenda di kaspar hauser) Toro Y Moi - “So Many Details” Alberta Premiere tues june 25, 7 pM: globe cinema surveillant D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2012 Dir. Yan Giroux, 18 min, Canada closing gala - 18+ (QC), 2011, Alberta Premiere Waterpark Dir. Evan Prosofsky / D.o.P. Follow notorious wierdo Vincent Gallo (Buffalo ’66, Prosofsky, 16 min, 2013 Good Night Dir. Muriel d’Ansembourg, 27:00, The Brown Bunny) in this surrealist, black-and-white United Kingdom, Colour, 2011 - ALBERTA techno-Western twist on Werner Herzog’s The Enigma nightly after-parties PREMIERE (1974). Set to the music of Vitalic, of Kaspar Hauser We’re excited to be partnering with Milk Tiger Lounge the date Dir. Ievgen Matvienko, 11 min, Ukraine, Manuli’s version is a totally bonkers cinematic to host a series of after-parties. All events are free, 2012, Canadian Premiere experience. Celebrate the closing night of Sled Island 18+ and will have specially themed cocktails! at Commonwealth Bar & Stage for our after-party. (Anyone for a Tequila Suun-rise?) Parties will be held Italy 2012, 95 min, Alberta Premiere after Museum Hours, Suuns Europe 2011, Wavemak- i used to be darker Director: David Manuli sun june 23, 6:30 pM: globe cinema ers, I Used to be Darker, Tower. Co-presented with Commonwealth Bar & Stage One of 2013’s most talked about films, we are proud to present the Canadian premiere of I Used to be closing gala after-party Darker, from Baltimore’s Matt Porterfield. Following The Selected Work of Emily Kai tues june 25, 9 pM: a Northern Irish runaway who is reunited with her commonwealth bar and stage, 18+ American relatives, Porterfield crafts a narrative Bock & Evan Prosofsky TUES june 25, 9 pM: globe cinema both delicate and raw. Special guests in attendance! Emily Kai Bock and Evan Prosofsky have produced an Director Q&A and music performance. impressive body of work in short time. In addition to USA 2013, 90 min, Canadian Premiere selected music videos, we’re proud to present Bock’s Director: Matt Porterfield documentary on New York underground rap and Prosofsky’s directorial debut, Waterpark, a doc about tower the much loved West Edmonton Mall wave pool with mon june 24, 7 pM: globe cinema music by Dirty Beaches. Tower is a stylistically rigorous and captivating grizzly bear - “Yet again” Dir. Kai Bock / character study of Derek, a loner who still lives at D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2012 home and seems unable to leave the world he’s Kool Music 5 - “Running Back to constructed around him. Everyone” Dir. Kai Bock / D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2012 Canada 2012, 78 min, Alberta Premiere Doldrums - “She is The Wave” Dir. Kai Bock / Director: Kazik Radwanski D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2013 Co-presented with the Calgary Underground Film Sebastien Schuller - “Nightlife” Festival Dir. Kai Bock / D.o.P. Prosofsky, 2012 9

SLED ISLAND ART SLED ISLAND ART

JILLIAN DASCHUK COLWYN PADDON BRENT MORLEY SMITH

Since Sled Island’s inception in 2007, art has always Tom Bagley, Jill Stanton, Dave Teatro, Michelle Vu, and solid comment on contemporary pop culture and been an integral part of the festival’s programing in Jolie Bird, Kiarra Albina, Nathan Navetto, Dave the boundaries that block freedom of thought. one way or another. Each year, art’s relationship to Lieske. Curated by Josh Ruck. the festival changes and adapts according to each Sled Island is proud to present the seventh annual EAST VILLAGE BLOCK PARTY curator, creating something exciting and unique. Sled Island Poster Show. This is a rare opportu- opening thurs june 20, 4-10 pM: The Alberta College of Art and Design has graciously nity to pair local designers, tattoo artists and funded Sled Island’s artistic endeavors for the past illustrators with musicians playing the festival. (618 Confluence Way SE) 3 years. This year, ACAD’s donation will go towards For collectors, this is your chance to own a limited Artists: Humble Wonder Theatre, Steven Cottingham, the paying of artist fees. We would also like to edition three-colour poster, hand silk-screened Juan Gonzalez, I-Robot, Laura A. Saik, Jake Klien, acknowledge the Victoria Park BRZ for commission- by Goodchild Cartel. Pick up 2013 posters at Milk and Botanical Drawing Collective curated by Justin ing murals and their assistance in turning a long Tiger Lounge from June 18 through to July, at select Waddell. An Outdoor arts and performance event which is forgotten hair salon into the Sled Island Contempo- festival venues, and at the Republik Closing Party open to the public is the 2nd annual East Village rary Art Salon. on Sunday, June 23rd. Block Party. This event is community-centered to create a fun and playful environment with Puppet This is Sled Island’s 7th year and it is a great time to theatre, interactive installations, and engaging reflect upon where the festival has been and where FORMS performances pieces. we want to go as a music and arts festival. Sled opening wed june 19, 4-7 pM: Understudy Island is such a magical time wherein the city’s core (1312 1st St SW) is flooded with our young music and art lovers ready Artist: Brent Morley Smith. EAST VILLAGE SALES & to experience anything and hungry for the potential It is often argued that the photographer is limited of our city. Sled Island was intended to be a gift to by virtue of their medium. They are to work with EXPERIENCE CENTRE Calgarians to finally see the bands and musi- the physical planes that exist before their lens. A opening thurs june 20, 6-10 pM: cian they were dying to see. The art of Sled Island photographer’s work is archival, confirming that a (553 Riverfront Ave SE) embraces that notion as we get to see the artists we particular subject has existed within time and space. Artists: Brittney Bear Hat and Lea Bucknell. love to see in the spaces we love to visit. Smith’s chief aim, consistent throughout the years, was to create a body of work that challenges such SLED ISLAND & ETSY PRESENT: I can’t wait to see. notions of objectivity. The subject before him shall not be perceived as they are, but rather, as what they SPACES AT MOCA Sincerely, could potentially be. Forms, an assortment of candid opening thurs june 20, 5-7 pM: moca (104 Natasha Jensen photographs, underscore the interpretive nature of - 800 - Macleod Trail SE) photography by embracing an outlandish aesthetic, Artist: TBA far from objective. For the first time, Etsy and Sled Island have joined VICTORIA PARK MURAL LAUNCH forces to highlight emerging currents in Canadian opening tues june 18, 2-5 pM: Victoria art. A jury comprised of Etsy, Sled Island and MOCA Park Parklet GROUP OF $EVEN members selected one exceptional talent from (1st St SW near 13th Ave) opening wed june 19, 7-11 pM: Sled illustrators, painters, photographers and graphic Artist: Peter Tomanek, Rob Knudsen, Mynthia. Island Contemporary Art Salon (1412 1st designer applicants from across the country. Join us Victoria Park BRZ and Sled Island work together to St SW) at MOCA discover the work of this talented artist, commission three local emerging artists to create a Artists: Jillian Daschuk, Julien Fournier, Austin Taylor, and join in the dialogue about the space and role of beautiful mural nestled in the Park. Please join us to Omar Lalani, Dave Lieske, Kyle Mecalf, and Lindsay emergence in the Canadian arts community. celebrate these new works that will have a long life Wells. with the surrounding community. This is the debut exhibition of The Sled Island Con- temporary Art Salon. GROUP OF $EVEN, showcases SOFT SERVE 7 emerging artists and illustrators whose work opening fri june 21, 4-7 pM: SLED ISLAND POSTER SHOW surround themes and ideas of humor and self- venue tba opening tues june 18, 6-10 pM: milk tiger reflection. Combining an eclectic and wide range of Artists: Dana Buzzee and Jodie Rose lounge (1410 14th St SW) interest while, at the same time, creating a unified SOFT SERVE is a collaborative exhibition, which Artists: Shaun Luedtke, Alexis Killam, Warren Heise, 11 sheets, “YEARN:POETICA” is an exploration of how CHRISTINA MAYDER objects have the poetic ability to tell stories about LINDSAY SORELL memory, loss and longing.

INTO THE WOODS AND THROUGH THE DEERFOOT opening sat june 22, 7-11 pM: venue tba Artists: Lane Shordee, Jodie Rose, Stephen Nachigall, and Kali Urquhart. “INTO THE WOODS AND THROUGH THE DEERFOOT,” discusses the relationship of art and nature as well notions of translation and re-enactment. This project uses a residency like structure to gather materials and create physical sketches for a Sled Island venue. Together the artists have traveled into Kananaskis country for four days to make-work and plan to translate the experience/work to a sled island installation. Manifesting in projection, sculpture and photography we will combine ideas of the natural wild with the concept of an urban wilderness situ- ated in downtown Calgary. 1ST STREET ART WALK opening sun june 23, 11 am - 5 pM: 1st Street SW between 17th Ave and 12th Ave SW showcases the heart of our Calgary summer. It is The drawing sessions will be open to the public and about admitting, and even highlighting, flaws and materials with be provided. failed expectations, a theme that is inherent to UNTITLED art SOCIETY LINE-UP: our lifestyle, living in this city where you do what EXHIBITION TITLE TBA Crisium you can with what you have, and you own it. SOFT exhibition runs march 28-june 22: UAS opening fri june 21,7-11 pM: SERVE is about our generation’s prairie struggle: White Dwarf Gallery (343 11th Ave NW) venue tba apathetic with a thick crust of sad bitch. This Artist: Brandon Dalmer. project is about poking fun at ourselves in a light Artists: Kelly Smith and Gwen Morgan, Joleen Toner hearted spirit, while cracking a cold one amongst and Ashley Olman, Mohammad Rezaei and Ali our kin who romanticize and truly love Calgary just Shahab. acid milk how she is. Collabrative, interative extravaganza, Sled Island exhibition runs may 24-june 29: UAS and Avalanche! partner up with 3 artistic duos. Location: UAS Satellite Gallery-343 11th Ave SW HAND TO EYE TO LAND TO SKY TO Artist: Sarah Van Sloten opening fri june 21, 4-7 pM: Alberta YEARN:POETICA Print Makers Society opening sat june 22, 1-4 pM: #1 Royal (2010F 11 St SE) Canadian Legion (116 7th Ave SW) EXHIBITION TITLE TBA Botanical Drawing Club Curated by Justin Waddell Artists: Christina Mayder and Lindsay Sorell, Colwyn exhibition runs june 8-july 31: UAS +15 The Botanical Drawing Club is a curated project that Paddon, and Shandrie Woodard. Gallery-Epcor Centre (208 8th Ave SE) will take place in various locations around Calgary. Pre-memorial wreath, floating galaxies and twisted Artist: Yules Wai

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ANDY HAYNES

SARAH ADAMS PAT KELLY

For the seventh year running, comedy is back at him inimitable style of stand-up on the Sled Island. coming out from Toronto, other than stories of spot- Sled Island with a special slathering of television, Known for his skills as a host, comic and a sketch ting Geddy Lee? That’s right - the comedy of Sara stage, podcast, radio and film stars. Shooting for comedy master, there’s very little that this guy can- Hennessey. the record books - “most laffs, 2013” or “sacre- not do. We mean that. bleu! juste pour rire” or “most comprehensive ab workout, 2013” - we’re bringing talk show Pat Kelly saboteur Eric Andre, notorious weirdo Brent Gelman Brett Gelman Remember how embarrassed your great-grand- and Modern Comedian Andy Haynes to rip up the You know him from Eagleheart. You know him for parents’ American friends were when Dewey didn’t decadent Fairmont Palliser Ballroom. Late night The Other Guys. You know him from that crazy defeat Truman? Well, that’s how our great-great- over at Wine-Ohs, we’ve got the Toronto Maple story about tap dancing naked, in blackface, great-great-grandchildren will feel when they hear Leafs ringer Pat Thornton, web phenom Sara Hen- across the UCB stage to commemorate the events about how our idiot step-uncles fell for CBC news nessy, Laugh Sabbath’s Chris Locke and Calgary’s of September 11, 2001 on Valentine’s Day 2004. stories about allergies to colour and how Québécois own boy-done-good, the Canadian Comedy Award Banned from Comedies Death Ray and Bang Bang dogs have been forced to speak French. Guess who winning Pat Kelly. Late night shows are rounded out over the iBrain controversy, come see cuddly LA is behind all this tomfoolery. Too late - it’s Pat Kelly, with the equally well travelled and well groomed comic Brett Gelman ply his side-splitting brand host and creator of the great CBC radio programme Jeff Toth, amateur wrestling commentator Brent of observational hilarity this June on Sled Island’s This is That. The Calgary-born improviser and Constantine, local gem Sarah Adams and the love- comedy stage. He’ll make you laugh and make you comedian is back to make us laugh and treat us to able, befuddled cat lady Chris Griffin. As they say, think. Be there! some of his trademark “Rants (TM).” Wait. Wrong “catch the taste!” show. Chris Griffin With love, This year, local sad-sack Chris Griffin is calling Chris Locke Paisley Sim and Evan Wilson himself “The Future of Comedy”. Known for his Sometimes, when you’re hungry, your stomach short-lived Rev Energy Drink sponsorship, Griffin only wants one thing: Burger John’s. The man is back on his feet, once again wowing us with responsible for that? Chris Locke. Revolutionizing Eric Andre limitless observations on life lived with a house full the art of branding a restaurant before building If Jay Leno destroyed the talk show, Eric Andre was of cats. it, Chris has managed to make thousands hungry the one to build it back up again. Wreaking havoc for hamburgers before knowing they existed. And with his sidekick, Hannibal Burress, 11 minutes Andy Haynes that’s just his comedy! Hailed as NOW Magazine’s at a time on Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show, Best Comedian of 2012, it’s been a great year for he thrills audiences, cracking them up repeat- Andy Haynes is a stand up comic from Seattle, but let us assure you he does no bits about Starbucks, this Juno award-winning comic and things are only edly, leaving them gasping for more air as they about to get better. struggle to keep up with all the antics! But, if we Microsoft or Space Needles. (Let us also assure you can get serious for a minute, laughter is the best he didn’t write this bio). Now living in LA, he did medicine (except for actual medicine). Andre is spend some time in NYC, leading to a pretty great Johnny Pemberton your medicine man. bit about bringing his lady friend there. He’s also Good things come from Minnesota: giant ears of been featured on Scott Moran’s Modern Come- corn, the Maria Bamford show, the Bammer’s pug, dian, which is the streaming equivalent of an Al Blossom, the Mall of America, and our boy Johnny Sarah Adams Hirschfeld caricature. This kid’s got it! 5/5. Pemberton. Host and writer for the MTV series The Peter Frampton of the tuba, Sarah Adams is ‘Megadrive,’ now adored by 14-year-olds in conflict one of Calgary’s most unique comic voices. Having regions throughout the world, who’s to say what worked with the likes of Reggie Watts, and opened Sara Hennessey kind of white-boy peacetime raps he’ll bring to Sled You know what’s hard? No, not eating healthy - for Todd Barry, Natasha Leggero, and Tim Heidecker Island! at Sled Island in 2012, Adams is fearless on stage. making a funny web series that entertains AND For once, we request that you laugh WITH someone enlightens. You know who’s done that? Sara who plays the tuba, not AT them! Hennessey, with Goodbye Sara Hennessey. How? Jeff Toth Because she’s weird and awkward and, best of all, Jeff Toth caught the attention of a talent agent genuinely funny. A member of Laugh Sabbath and his first time on stage. It was never that easy Brent Constantine Maria Bamford approved, this former costumed again. Now he’s toured across the country trying to After years of toiling on stages across the city, mall mascot also sees Geddy Lee around town recapture the magic of that first night. But so far, Brent Constantine has answered the call to perform sometimes. And what’s the second-best thing no such luck. 14 SLED ISLAND COMEDY

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SLED ISLAND SPECIAL EVENTS SLED SPECIAL EVENTS

Sled Island is more than just music. In lenges and potential pitfalls involved in planning instrument and the focus of Canadian director fact, it’s more than just music, film, art a tour in the UK and Europe. Caroline Martel’s documentary Wavemakers [Le Additional panels will take place at the National Chant Des Ondes] (2012). Join the expert staff and comedy. In 2013, the festival has Music Centre: of NMC for a demonstration of this fascinating enough going on at all hours of the day to JUNE 21, 1-3pm extremely rare instrument. cleanse your hard-partying palate with a JUNE 22, 1-3pm series of special events. Programming To Be Announced – if you wish to receive the full programming of the panel series, Sandbox Salon please email [email protected] JUNE 21, 5:30pm: Commonwealth SLED ISLAND PANEL SERIES Calgary’s premiere amateur barroom lecture JUNE 20, 21, 22 series! Don’t you want to learn about your world Thanks to the support of FACTOR, the Founda- ADDITIONAL SPECIAL EVENTS from people with no credentials on a given sub- tion Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings, ject in a bar? This special Sled Island installment this year Sled Island was able to invite a dozen will feature festival performers struggling their Punk Rock Bingo way through the toughest set of their lives! international delegates from around the world to JUNE 18, 8pm-Close discover the festival and the numerous Canadian Broken City & The Ship & Anchor artists that will grace the stages. Talent buyers, What’s better than a punk rock DJ night? If you Beatroute Annual Hangover Booking Agents, Label A&R and Music Supervi- said a punk rock DJ night where you can win sors, these delegates were chosen for their prizes, then bingo! Breakfast like-minded spirit and curiosity for the Canadian JUNE 22, 11am: Local 510 music scene. Because we want their presence to The fine folks at BeatRoute and Local 510 have benefit the largest number possible, we will be Wimbledon Wednesdays combined forces to re-fuel you before the last presenting a series of panels accessible to all - Sled Island Edition night of the festival. Free breakfast on a bun that will involve our guests. JUNE 19, 1-4pm: Commonwealth at 11am (while they last). After you chow down, With TSN’s Jay Onrait and Dave Hodge helping stick around for two stages and nine bands. • Annie Southworth - Booking Agent, Panache with Sled Island’s 2013 programming, we thought Guaranteed to be one of the best day parties of Booking, New York we might as well add a little more athleticism the festival. • Bob Van Heur - Belmont Bookings and Le into our programming. Why not spend your day Guess Who Festival, Amsterdam with four professional ping pong tables, excellent Artist Talk And Workshop • Andy Clayton - Booking Agent, Coda Agency, food, tasty bourbon, craft beers and new friends London, UK and rivalries? - North Country Cinema • Sarah Mroue - Managing Director, Ground JUNE 22, 2pm: Central Memorial Park Library Control Touring, New York Registration is required - visit www.sledisland. • Mikael Pass - Festival Director, Frost Festi- Hillhurst Sunnyside com/lineup/film for more info val, Copenhagen Farmer’s Market In their Artist Talk and Workshop at Sled Island, • Toddrick Spalding - Music Supervisor, High JUNE 19, 3-7pm guest film curators Alexander Carson and Bias Industries, Los Angeles Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association Kyle Thomas will discuss their methodology in • Adrien Durand - Booking Agent, Kongfuzi, Why not get stocked up on healthy food and terms of balancing creative goals and financial Paris vegetables as you prepare for the endurance restraints while building a body of work. This • Mark Zusman - Co-founder, MusicFestNW, run and liver-test that is Sled Island? Bonus: presentation will include screenings of short Portland farmer’s market beer garden music curated by films and clips from NCC’s early work, while also • Simon Wojan - Talent Buyer, Festsaal Kreuz- Sled Island! looking ahead to future projects and discussing berg, Monarch and Paloma, Berlin opportunities for professional development in • Chris Swanson - Label A&R, Jagjaguwar and media arts in Canada. Carson and Thomas will Secretly Canadian, Bloomington Music Calgary Industry also discuss the significance of regional film- Mixer making practices, as well as the challenges and London Calling JUNE 20, 3-5pm: Broken City Patio advantages to building an art cinema scene in Get to know some of Calgary’s most well- Calgary. Q & A will follow the presentation. (Presented by Music Calgary and Sled respected music professionals to the soundtrack Island) of two of the festival’s standout local artists: Feel Speakers: Bob Van Heur, Andy Clayton, Sled Island Wrap-Up Alright and Viet Cong. Adrien Durand Karaoke JUNE 20, 1-3PM: Broken City JUNE 22, 9pm: Broken City Europe is a rapidly changing market for Cana- Ondes Martenot Workshop Quite simply, Broken City’s wrap-up karaoke has dian artists. While famous for legendary festivals JUNE 20, 8:30pm: National Music Centre grown to become the best, most debaucherous and audiences enthusiastic about Canadian Presented by National Music Centre and Sled party at Sled Island. Join Broken City’s regular music, Europe also faces economic upheaval and Island Film. Amongst the hundreds of keyboard hosts, Beau and PJ, as well as all of your new poses many challenges for the aspiring touring instruments, electronic instruments and sound Sled Island friends (bands and fans alike) to musician. Come hear veterans of the European equipment in the National Music Center lies the keep the festival from coming to a close for at industry as they opine on the opportunities, chal- mysterious Ondes Martenot, an early electronic least a few more hours. 17

SLED ISLAND ALL AGES SLED ISLAND ALL AGES Sled Island is proud to present the All Ages portion of its 2013 programming. With over 80 bands and more than 15 music, film and art venues offering programming that is open to festival-goers of All Ages, there’s always something for our younger buddies to do!

The Importance Of All Ages Programming All ages shows are incredibly important to How To Attend? Sled Island, not just at the festival itself, but The Sled Island All-Ages wristband is just $50 in Calgary’s larger, thriving arts scene. These and provides access to everything from small shows allow under-18s to attend innovative, tors of musical creativity. These three bands intimate concerts at Tubby Dog, New Black and challenging and inspiring music, film and art have no trouble fitting in with the road-tested the National Music Centre to the festival’s largest events that are often otherwise inaccessible to bands they will be sharing bills with and are shows down at Olympic Plaza! In those venues them. This provides an extremely rare opportu- likely to inspire festival-goers, young and old, (and more), you’ll have a chance to see everything nity for music lovers of all ages to be welcomed every bit as much, if not more, than those more from emerging bands featuring under-18 mem- into these artistic communities during their established artists. We can’t recommend these bers themselves (don’t miss Basement Demons!) peak development. It really isn’t a stretch to guys enough! to the most well-respected and established artists imagine a life-changing concert to happen at in the world (The Jesus And Mary Chain!). On top Sled Island 2013, birthing one of our future The Basement Demons - Doomy and gloomy of that, there’s a plethora of All-Ages-friendly film festival’s headliners years down the road! noise punk played with unbridled enthusiasm! screenings, art openings and special events.

Young Talent At Sled Island Faux Fur - Jean-Sebastien Audet’s lo-fi garage Just consult the handy pull-out schedule’s Speaking of young folks getting involved in pop outfit that sound like seasoned vets! All-Ages legend in this program guide (or music at a tender age, Sled Island is proud visit sledisland.com) to know exactly what to highlight three emerging Calgary acts that Un Blonde - Experimental 60s-inspired spacey you can enjoy without fear of being turned show that age and experience are not indica- pop that makes us all feel like kids again! away at the door!

Do you have an all-ages pass and are not entirely sure what you should do with it? Fear not, we’ve created this handy checklist of must-dos for all of our under-18 buddies! Cut it out, put it in your wallet, check off the events you attend (and feel free to discover more that aren’t listed here) to ensure a perfect Sled Island experience!

3:00 PM, Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmer’s Market (stock up on healthy food for the fest!) 6:30 PM, National Music Centre, SUUNS Europe 2011 (check out a sweet documentary) 8:00 PM, Tubby Dog, Catgut, HexRay, Dead Soft and Field + Stream (great tunes)

1:00 PM, “London Calling” Panel Discussion (learn about the music industry across the sea) 4:00 PM, East Village Block Party (soak up some sun while enjoying rad electronic music and tasty food trucks) 7:00 PM, New Black, Dragonfli Empire, Obey The Crooks, Cove Tpada, Rap X (a rare all-ages hip hop show)

12:30 PM, Broken City, Prohab Party (learn about bike safety and hear some of the festival’s gems) 4:00 PM, Sloth Records, In-Store Session (an intimate gig while browsing for your new fave bands’ albums) 5:00 PM, New Black, Basement Demons (one of our most anticipated bands – and most of them are still in their teens!) 7:00 PM, Olympic Plaza, Explosions In The Sky, Besnard Lakes + more (one of the biggest shows of the festival!)

2:00 PM, Tubby Dog, Weird Canada Showcase (a diverse ine-up that is stellar from top to bottom!) 3:00 PM, Olympic Plaza, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Akron/Family + more (enjoy a full day of outdoor music!)

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100 MILE HOUSE HEIDI ALEXANDER JAY ARNER Edmonton, AB San Francisco, CA Vancouver, BC FRI 10PM: THE PALOMINO FRI 10PM: BROKEN CITY FRI 1:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS No band this year better represents the “log cabin” SAT 1:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT Jay Arner has a very generous definition of punk sound more than Edmonton’s 100 Mile House. With SAT 11PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS rock. His soft spot for fuzzy guitars and hard-hitting two-thirds of the members arriving from England Perhaps best known for her work as guitarist and drums seems at odds with his adoration of broken four years ago, this trio unifies traditional English singer for The Sandwitches and back-up vocals with synthesizers and forgotten easy-listening records, folk with the more indie-stylized folk of Canada. The Fresh & Onlys, pillar of the San Francisco garage but if it’s not punk rock then what else could you Call it “transatlantic folk.” rock scene, Heidi Alexander, is making her solo possibly call it? jayarner.bandcamp.com 100milehouse.bandcamp.com Calgary debut at Sled Island 2013! www.thesandwitchesjam.com ARROWZ THE ABRAMSON SINGERS Edmonton, AB Vancouver, BC THE ALLOVERS FRI 10PM: BAMBOO FRI 9PM: WINE-OHS Edmonton, AB Boy-girl two-piece revive their youthful turbulence Veteran supporting-caster Leah Abramson (Dyad, FRI 11PM: BAMBOO through DIY garage rock. Mark Raymond Hayes on Octoberman, The Crooked Jades) spreads her wings Too often, power-pop bands are heavy on pop and the “leers, jerks, riffs and riots” and Andrea Y on the with a blue-chip ensemble of her own. Chiming light on power. The Allovers gots both in spades, with “whips, struts, sass and ass.” Enough said. guitars and keys intertwine with clarion vox as a croony, boozy, freaky twist that’ll have you either arrowz.bandcamp.com pure as water on tunes that shine like bright little scratching or banging your head. Bark along with the pebbles in a creek bed. It would all be too cute for young dirtbags and let yr freakwagon motor away. words, except she nails it. theallovers.bandcamp.com ASTRAL SWANS leahabramson.com Calgary, AB WED 7:30PM: COMMONWEALTH THE ALMIGHTY RHOMBUS Simply lend an ear to Calgary’s own Matthew Swann ADOLYNE Sudbury, ON of extra happy ghost !!!, allow him to sling you Saskatoon, SK WED 7PM: HILLHURST SUNNYSIDE FARMER’S into stellar realms with his stripped-down, solitary FRI 10:30PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR MARKET divulging of mind; a man, his guitar and his remi- Hot jazz guitars played on buzzsaws. Drums like the A “super” group to their local scene, this unification niscences. Simply lend him an ear and the rest will score for a film about a boy living a life of staccato of prominent Sudbury musicians derive their ener- be celestial. astralswans.bandcamp.com distress. Vocals from a whisper to a scream. Emo getic indie-rock from a multitude of sounds from the metal for math junkies, or the Baroque soundtrack last 20 years. Their organ and infectious melodies to life in the sewers of the Paris of the Prairies? help separate them from the multitude of catchy AXIS OF CONVERSATION facebook.com/pages/Adolyne/6201859627 indie-rock bands. Calgary, AB thealmightyrhombus.bandcamp.com THU 7PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Free-spirited eclectics, every last one of them. Axis AKRON/FAMILY of Conversation takes a loose approach to magic, New York, NY AM STATIC populated by six long-time forces in the Calgary mu- SAT 8:15PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA Calgary, AB sic scene who prefer to let music breathe. For fans of Having released 6 albums in 7 years and with ties THU 8PM: THE HIFI CLUB effects-laden guitar, smart samples, expert strings to cities like Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Portland, AM Static comprises Chris Austman and Nils and busy drums. Just don’t call it abstract; genres it’s been a little hard to keep up with Akron/Fam- Mikkelsen, a Calgary-based duo specializing in ruin everything. axisofconversation.com ily. An endlessly restless creative spirit has been a sentimental electronica. Thoughtful lyrics made boon to this experimentalist force of nature. Main- of soft voices rest atop live guitar and piano while taining a focus on vocal harmonies and unpredict- electronic keyboards and percussion keep the human B-LINES able percussion through forays into innumerable elements afloat.amstatic.bandcamp.com Vancouver, BC genres, we can’t wait to see what they have cooked THU 12:30AM: COMMONWEALTH (DOWN) up for Sled Island. akronfamily.com SAT 11PM: THE PALOMINO ANCHORESS Don’t expect B-Lines’ songs to last longer than the Vancouver, BC ALANADALE time it takes you to shotgun a beer. They say that FRI 3PM: THE PALOMINO brevity is the soul of wit and these snotty punks Winnipeg, MB Anchoress may have first found themselves deep in a know how to sharpen their tongues in under 40 WED 8PM: HILLHURST SUNNYSIDE FARMER’S Palahniuk novel, reflected in a fictional church’s self- seconds flat. Their heart-stopping set is more of a MARKET made martyr, but these Vancouver post-hardcore manic sprint than a marathon, just enough for you to Five Winnipeg musicians create a wonderful contrast punks only prostrate themselves in front of the altar pogo your brains into a mush. of folk experimentation as classical guitars layer of rock and roll. A Ruiner shirt brought frontman Rob b-lines.bandcamp.com over electric synths and progressive song structures. Hoover and bassist Ricky Castanedo together and As captivating as it is creative. it’s been smooth sailing on the winds of chaos ever alanadale.bandcamp.com since. anchoress.bandcamp.com

23 THE BACKHOMES BEN DISASTER THE BICYCLES Victoria, BC Edmonton, AB Toronto, ON THU 2PM: LOCAL 510 WED 11:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS SAT 10PM: TUBBY DOG Ex-Besnard Lake Kees Decker retains his former When Ben Disaster sliced the nerves of his hand wide Music that caters to the über sweet-inclined whip- band’s cosmic consciousness, finds propulsion in open on stage years ago, it could have spelt the end persnapper that, let’s face it, exists somewhere in all the paisley underground. Turn off your mind, relax of his music career. Fortunately, the hard-working of us. Ripening for seven years after their previous and ride a wooden ship to inner space on a river of Edmontonian punk had other plans: he focused on twee-perfected album, The Good, The Bad and lysergic fuzz. This elevator goes to the 13th floor. his rehabilitation and his solo project blossomed into The Cuddly, they’ve released the brand-new Stop thebackhomes.com full-band juggernaut that sprawls across genres, Thinking So Much, a collection of honeyed tidbits from folk-infused punk to hardcore-tinged ragers. The which wink at your inner bambino. Grab yer propeller normal life is not for Disaster, to the pleasure of fans beanies for this one and be lifted to where the clouds BADBADNOTGOOD everywhere. bendisaster.bandcamp.com are made of cotton candy, folks. Toronto, ON thebicycles.bandcamp.com FRI 12AM: THE HIFI CLUB Born out of an alternate universe in which jazz is still THE BESNARD LAKES cool and relevant and it is performed not by cool, Montreal, QC BIG BRAVE detached cats, but weirdo ADD-suffering pranksters, THU 8:30PM: COMMONWEALTH Montreal, QC BadBadNotGood’s live sets are like a speed master’s FRI 8:15PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA WED 8PM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS class on creating the world’s greatest mix-tape. The The Besnard Lakes center around husband & wife Alternating between passages of delicate beauty and superb musicianship and list of oddball covers (Odd duo Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. The pair honed thunderous feedback, this trio showcases the vocals Future, Joy Division, Kanye West, My Bloody Valentine) their recording skills in their own Breakglass Studio, of singer/guitarist Robin Faye in harmony with gui- almost goes unnoticed amongst the dementedly good tracking albums for essential Montreal artists like tarist Mathieu Ball’s and the insistent, druggy drums times. badbadnotgood.com Wolf Parade, The Unicorns and a whole lot more. For of Louis-Alexandre Beauregard. A swelling, drifting, the last ten years, they’ve been crafting their own swooning sort of dream. The sound is big, the hearts full band albums with grand sound design (two of are brave. bigbrave.bandcamp.com THE BASEMENT DEMONS which have been nominated for the Polaris Prize). Calgary, AB The Besnard Lakes pull from all of rock’s history but BIG EYES FRI 5PM: NEW BLACK make shoegaze and psych essential elements of Seattle, WA Two pairs of siblings that are cousins make up their larger than life sound. this lo-fi, doom-surf, shout-punk, no-wave quartet. FRI 1AM: BAMBOO thebesnardlakes.com Sounds like kids getting excitable on Sugar Pops and SAT 5PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS ‘80s DIY cassettes, which it basically is – three of Big Eyes are a trio keeping rock ‘n roll loud, quick the members are too young to even get their learner’s BESTIE and dirty. The group got started out in Brooklyn license. Hoot, holler, raucous noise: ONE-TWO- Vancouver, BC but made their home in Seattle. Maybe it was to THREE-FOAH! THU 11PM: BAMBOO get closer to the sound of The Sonics? Hauling up thebasementdemons.bandcamp.com Tensely woven with joy, BESTiE make ultra-light to Calgary for all the good time kids and bringing surf pop for those summer months that pass by all plenty of distortion, they’ll be ripping up this year’s too quick. Plucky guitar and bass interplay to put a Sled Island. bigeyes.bandcamp.com BEAR MOUNTAIN wiggle in your hips paired with soaring vocals the Vancouver, BC stretch to the heart of the Pacific. WED 12AM: THE HIFI CLUB BITTER FICTIONS bestie.bandcamp.com Vancouver’s Bear Mountain make music that soars, Calgary, AB taking euphoric snapshots of the finest electronic WED 7PM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS soundscapes and dropping them into a multi-instru- BETRAYERS Devin Friesen translates potent emotion directly into mental playground. Their unique, forward-thinking Edmonton, AB his meticulously crafted music, forging empyrean, approach to dance music reminisces about better SAT 3PM: LOCAL 510 sonorous parables that convey more than words ever days and always leaves the listener smiling. Drenched in reverb and tremolo and shrouded in pot could. Saturated in ambient noise, his drone-rich mybearmountain.com smoke and black light, Travis Sargent’s new band creations exist in a realm above and beyond, with channels classic garage psychedelia and JAMC only keen-edged feedback to jolt and ground you in THE BEETS jangle-drone. Caught between ecstasy and perpetual his own pseudo-reality. bummer, there’s just one problem: the girl, the girl, bitterfictions.bandcamp.com Jackson Heights, NY always the girl. thebetrayers.bandcamp.com THU 10PM: TUBBY DOG FRI 3:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT BITTER PRICKS SAT 10:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS BIBLICAL Calgary, AB If the Ramones had trotted around the cobble- Toronto, ON SAT 12AM: Dickens stone streets of Montevideo, Uruguay during their THU 11:30PM: Dickens Power pop is a beautiful thing, isn’t it? All at once, you get melody, hooks and fun crammed down your throat, summers, instead of bopping around and chewing SAT 4PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR and Calgary’s Bitter Pricks are a great example of the bubblegum on the roofs of Queens, NY bored out of Lordavmerceh! It’s… riff rock done right! With hip-shakin’ good time that can be had just by mixing their minds, they would have traded in their buzzsaw swampy, ‘70s blues-based riffage and punishing pals and rock n roll. For fans of brash, urgent garage guitars for a more lugubrious, minimalist approach. stoner rock jams, Biblical seem to exist in the Edenic rock and running around outside, Bitter Pricks are the Bilingual garage dreamers made for wiling away a and previously never even dreamt-of universe, in best part of your summer, just waiting to happen. placid afternoon, Juan Wauters, leader of the Beets, which Motörhead, Creedence Clearwater Revival invites you to spend an endless vacation with them. and Sir Lord Baltimore are found duckwalkin’ the thebeets.bandcamp.com stairway to heaven. Hallejulah rock & rollahs! biblicalband.com

24 THE BITTERWEED DRAW 2012 Sled performances seriously became the talk of SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS the entire festival and they’ll be back again to mash Calgary, AB your cranium to a fucking pulp and flood you with THU 12AM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR some totally tubular brain-juice waves. Calgary rockers carry their banjo-led punkified theblindshake.com bluegrass with enough liveliness to energize just about any crowd. Alberta politicians should take note as these guys probably have enough excess to solve BLIST our well-known energy crisis. Calgary, AB thebitterweeddraw.ca WED 11:30PM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS Calgary’s BLIST have been dropping rhymes since before you were born and, with each passing year, THE BLACK DOTS they refine the partying down to a point so sharp Calgary, AB you’re likely to lose an eye. 2012’s Blism was packed WED 7PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS with so many fun, concise and downright fantastic A supergroup of sorts, Calgary’s Black Dots are the songs that it should have been made illegal, then missing link between punk and glam. Ex-Remone Ian legalized again, and then taught in schools so that “Ribsy” Grant teams up with storied townies Gord no one would ever be bummed ever again. Make it Adam and Greg Cox to rock your Docs off. Straight-up mandatory. myspace.com/blistonline classic melodic garage-rock served up on a high- RPM platter-o’-wax. myspace.com/theblackdotscanada BOOGIE HOWSER Edmonton, AB SAT 11PM: THE HIFI CLUB BLACK MAGIC PYRAMID Though Kirk Opheim is a veteran of Edmonton’s Saskatoon, SK hardcore punk scene (remember Fuck the Tundra’s SAT 8PM: THE PALOMINO furious performance at Sled 2010?), here he is Heavy deeds. A blender-mix of hardcore and black behind a laptop, collaging some of the most involv- metallic sonic textures so immersive that once you ing, psychedelic electronic music going. Like a more lose your mind in it, you might never find it again. A rhythm-heavy version of The Field, he crafts tricksy, post-industrial whirlwind blowing bad news across shifting beatscapes that dazzle and disorient. the prairies. Reunited at last, they put on a live show soundcloud.com/cptnkirk that’s legendarily apocalyptic. myspace.com/blackmagicpyramid BOOK OF CAVERNS Edmonton, AB BLACK THUNDER FRI 9:30PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE Regina, SK Edmonton seems to have a knack for cranking out WED 8PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS strong, emotive post-hardcore that lives and breathes Long-hairs rejoice! There’s a fierce riff blasting in alongside the natural world. Book of Caverns lead the from the Saskatchewan prairies, head-bangin’, pack, straddling the ultimately non-existent divide beer-chuggin’ and fist-pumpin’ its way west on the between heart-wrenching beauty and bare-faced ugli- Trans-Canada Highway to descend on Sled Island. It ness. bookofcaverns.bandcamp.com signals the arrival of Black Thunder, a three-piece with such manic drive that you can’t help but be torn and dragged along. Step through the mirror and join BRAZILIAN MONEY your brothers. blackthunder.bandcamp.com Edmonton, AB SAT 9:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Brazilian Money is a cassette-pop band from Edmon- BLEACHERS ton. Edmonton has a lot of cassette-pop bands, but Calgary, AB Brazilian Money knows that there is such a thing as WED 10PM: REPUBLIK too much reverb and their songs all sound different This is rock music with a capital R: crunchy dual gui- because the band actually cares about how their tars riff their way through the songs while a four-on- songs sound. You’ll find a healthy dose of new wave, the-floor rhythm section maintains momentum. Top pop punk, weirdo country and surf pop between the off the mix with rich baritone vocals and you have reels; just imagine what they’ll bring to the stage. BLEACHERS, one of the finest garage ensembles out brazilianmoney.bandcamp.com of Calgary to ever grace the stage. thisisbleachers.bandcamp.com TRAVIS BRETZER Edmonton, AB THE BLIND SHAKE WED 11PM: BROKEN CITY Minneapolis, MN He’s way too poppy to be considered slack-rock, too FRI 12AM: Dickens sleazy for the blues, yet too soulful to be labelled SAT 11:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS a punk rocker. Somehow, Travis Bretzler brings all SUN 8PM: REPUBLIK these things together in surprisingly smooth lo-fi Now here’s a wash of psychedelic, surfy garage-rock fashion. travisbretzer.bandcamp.com sure to defibrillate you into high motion frenzy. Their 25 DIVINE FITS Los Angeles, CA SAT 12AM: FLAMES CENTRAL This indie rock (don’t call them a) supergroup, featuring Britt Daniels of Spoon, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs and Sam Fischel of New Bomb Turks, might just be the single easiest sell in the history of the festival. As the story goes, Daniel saw Boeckner perform at a Handsome Furs show a couple of years ago and felt a kinship with the frontman: both draw from classic rock and roll tropes while handily updating them for a new millennium, raw without being brutish, honest without being cheesy, magnetic without being derivative. A couple of half-jokes and tantalizing suggestions later, the two finally came together, utilizing the Handsome Furs’ breakup in 2011 as a catalyst. Divine Fits manage to occupy an interesting space on the indie rock land- scape. Daniels is free to take further risks with the Fits, away from his primary responsibilities in Spoon, while Boeckner seems to salivate at the notion that quasi-new wave rhythms and glammed out winks and purses of their lips he can finally put his own indelible, unpredictable stamp on things. The Fits — they’re the swaggering soundtrack to the start of an endless vacation, a feel youthful and carefree, readily laying down delicious classic rock riffs over wine-drenched summer evening. divinefits.com

overtop the fallen. Fuck you, let’s party! drop for Red Moses’ minor-key songs of loss and the JIM BRYSON burninglove.bandcamp.com dark transitions the heart must make as it breaks, Ottawa, ON heals, grieves and grows. callowtheband.com FRI 9PM: FLAMES CENTRAL SAT 11PM: THE IRONWOOD BURNT ONES As a founding member of Punchbuggy, touring San Francisco, CA CALVIN LOVE member of Kathleen Edwards’ band and contributor THU 12:30AM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Edmonton, AB to the Weakerthans’ The Falcon Lake Incident album, FRI 9:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB WED 12AM: COMMONWEALTH the indie folk of Jim Bryson is about as Canadian as SAT 9:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS THU 7:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB it gets. jimbryson.org A sun-drenched, granular pastiche of over-blown FRI 7PM: THE ALEXANDRA CENTRE garage veneered with distortion and verve. You won’t Calvin Love’s lazy vocals meander around gentle KENNA BURIMA be complaining when they leave you parched singed synthesizers and ketamine-dream guitars, hearken- after they solar-flare all up in your face. ing back to the days of public access television and Calgary, AB burntones.bandcamp.com THU 5PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS worn cassette tapes. From surf-pop to sleepy dirges, Kenna Burima is perhaps best known for her work Love’s music is addictive and painstakingly diverse with Calgary’s Woodpigeon but she is an extraor- BURRO and represents the finest that Alberta pop has to dinary bandleader and her own compositions want Calgary, AB offer. calvinlove.bandcamp.com for nothing. Burima writes mature, cross-genre pop WED 11PM: THE HIFI CLUB songs that centre around her powerful voice; her un- With the kind of guitar-driven soundscapes that CANTOO forgettable music balances baroque arrangements can best be described as the perfect soundtrack to a scorched earth scenario, Calgary’s Burro are the Edmonton, AB with pop accessibility and jazz freedom. FRI 5PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS kennaburima.bandcamp.com frantic, near-chaotic, teetering-on-the-edge-of- destruction band of your dreams (if you’re in to that You know how sometimes the sunniest of Sunday sort of thing). burroburro.bandcamp.com afternoons has a melancholic tinge to it, like it’s too THE BURNETTES perfect to last? Aaron Parker’s music is like that, Vancouver, BC too: nested within innocent-sounding pop rhythms, SAT 8PM: THE IRONWOOD THE CABLE-KNITS jaunty melodies and 1965 backing harmonies, Husband and wife duo, Chris and Cora Burnette, Calgary, AB experience lurks, just enough in the background not have been leading The Burnettes through dimly lit THU 7PM: TUBBY DOG to break your heart. cantoo.bandcamp.com bars for over a decade now. Employing an effortless A couple of Calgary favourites, the frolicsome duo of haze of guitars, banjos and serrated vocals, the Nate Waters and LeeJay Dunphy combine sprightly, BEN CAPLAN five-piece are roots-rock’s answer to the slacker-rock rollicking guitar melodies and pepper them over Halifax, NS movement theburnettes.ca jaunty vocals. The whole thing is veneered in won- derfully light production, which makes for some easy THU 10PM: THE IRONWOOD breezy, wildly refreshing listening; pin-point perfect The deep raspy bellow of multi-instrumentalist BURNING LOVE to douse yourself in come the summer heat. Ben Caplan swells with undercurrents of jazz, soul Toronto, ON thecableknits.bandcamp.com and southern rock. A charismatic and passionate WED 12:30AM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR live show is the calling card of this Halifax artist. There must be something about having that doughy bencaplan.ca goon, Rob Ford, as mayor of your city that makes you CALLOW wanna spill your own fucking blood to prove a point. San Fransisco, CA Toronto’s been on fire with their hardcore scene on WED 10:30PM: WINE-OHS CATGUT Edmonton, AB the strength of Southern Lord’s impeccable taste. If Vic Chestnutt had come out of slowcore rather WED 11PM: TUBBY DOG Leading the charge, Burning Love crank up the than country, he might have sounded like Callow. When Catgut’s Phil Holtby sings, his deep, tenta- sludge, amplify the hate and dance a vicious waltz Stark, blue guitars and keyboards provide the back- 26 tive voice recalls the early golden years of literate CHARLIE CB SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS alternative rock. Catgut takes the baton from Guided Austin, TX by Voices and Lou Barlow and pushes the legacy well WED 12:30AM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS beyond its roots. Positive thinking is the first step towards success. catgutcatgut.bandcamp.com The second step is rapping like Charlie CB. The Austin-TX-based instigator nails that critical halfway CATL point between “gutless sucker” and “knuckle-drag- Toronto, ON ging thug,” and he’s already mastered more rhythmic THU 11PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS meters than Shakespeare ever did. 203music.com FRI 1AM: THE PALOMINO Catl are ready to get rowdy. Drubbing percussion fuels this trio as they attempt to start riots nightly ERIC CHENAUX Montreal, QC with their dusty-blues inspired rock ‘n roll. Be prepared to take the night into the wee hours of the THU 10:30PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE In Eric Chenaux’s hands, a nylon-stringed guitar is morning as Catl try to resurrect Mississippi’s long transformed into a misshapen choir of gauzy ideas, bloodline of blues musicians from the grave. multiple, sonorous voices and harmonious drainage catl.bandcamp.com melodies, all of which bounce off the roughly-hewn walls of a dimly lit catacomb, briefly flickering into CAVES life before being snuffed out again by a gust of wind. Saskatoon, SK Chenaux’s penchant for enormous possibility and FRI 3PM: TUBBY DOG free-form expression stretch well beyond the confines Knowing how to wring every last ounce out of a of his “folk” home genre. groove is an art in itself. Peter Grier’s songs take cstrecords.com/eric-chenaux simple loops and make them hypnotic and disori- enting, something out of time and space: a haunt- CHLORINATOR ing innersphere composed of the jetsam of pop life, Calgary, AB warm and fuzzy as a blanket in a codeine dream. THU 12AM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS caves4.bandcamp.com There’s a new gang of punks in town and they’ll stop at nothing to warp and distort the boundar- CHAINS OF LOVE ies of their genre. Thrashing in the middle of it all, Vancouver, BC Chlorinator takes Spits worship clubs it over the TUE 10:30PM: COMMONWEALTH head with phaser pedals and budget rock stylings, So ‘60s, so vivaciously soulful, these garage- stripping it down, sexing it up and making it weirder poppers butter you up and graze you where it feels than a midget in a wheelchair leading a bondage pet oh-so-niiiice. Nathalia Pizzaro’s ashen vocals are by the leash. smoldering and effortless, charmingly chorused with a wash of jangling guitars, tambourines and pianos. CIRCLES We’re pretty sure if hearts could sing, this is what Chicago, Il they would sound like. FRI 9:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS chainsoflove.bandcamp.com SAT 4:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT SUN 5PM: REPUBLIK CHAIRS Circles have released 5 pitch-perfect garage pop Montreal, QC blasts together, but a good deal more music apart. THU 10PM: PALOMINO Ken Coulman (Holy Ghosts, Sang Des Loups), Ian Jarvis is familiar to Calgarians as a member of Melissa Elias (The Ponys, Dutchess & the Duke) Ghostkeeper and of Jay Crocker’s band. As Chairs, and R. Srini (France Has the Bomb, Football, Guilty he’s a bedroom-studio wizard, crafting perfect, Pleasures) bring only their best into this newly pulsing art-pop with interlocking guitars and a high- minted but old souled ensemble. Come on down tech, lo-fi aesthetic. Landing perfectly between Sam and jangle along with the pros. Roberts and Can, Jarvis is guided by voices of his https://soundcloud.com/user5322786 own. chairstheband.bandcamp.com CODE ORANGE KIDS THE CHANTRELLES Pittsburgh, PA Victoria, BC WED 11:30PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR WED 12AM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS That Code Orange Kids are on Deathwish should These soul-revival masters from Victoria do their be no surprise to the initiated: they happily stomp forebears proud. The band’s horn section fills out a all over hardcore conventions, bleeding doom and groovy rhythm section loaded with brilliant pocket shoegaze gloom into the endless abyss which they players while Chance Lovett’s smoky, seductive call home. It’s incredible to think that such a young vocals entice and excite. Not to be missed. thechant- band carries this kind of weight on their shoulders, relles.bandcamp.com but COK thrive where few others can even breathe. codeorangekids.bandcamp.com

27 JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN III SAT 2:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT COVE TPADA Austin, TX SAT 10PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS Calgary, AB THU 2:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT Washed-out and twangy, it sounds like these eccen- THU 8PM: NEW BLACK FRI 11PM: BROKEN CITY trics grew up in a garage with nothing but their fuzzy A bona fide hip-hop collective consisting of some of instruments and reverb to feed on, chanting A-1 SAT 8:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Calgary’s finest young and close-knit wordsmiths. outré-ness. Minimalist punk that you would caper to Falling somewhere in the sweet spot between Billy These homies have come together, vivifying each if you were an aquatic ghost, or into weirdly calcified Childish and Daniel Johnston, John Wesley Coleman other to venture and explore their surroundings and music, which I know you are. III is a garage punk and trash poet renaissance their minds, manifesting their findings into savvy floridasdying.bandcamp.com man who has somehow found time to release four rhymes over cool, copacetic rhythms. perfectly loose-but-tight rock n’ folk albums amid facebook.com/CoveTpada his stints as a stand-up comedian, scriptwriter and THE COURTNEYS visual artist. Expect this one to be a thoughtfully Vancouver, BC COWPUNCHER messy good time. THU 8PM: TUBBY DOG Calgary, AB johnwesleycoleman.bandcamp.com Campy ‘90s nostalgia is resuscitated through an SAT 11:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS infectious chorus of sun-faded guitars and shout- Who says that country has to always be burdened alongs. Bonus points if you show up in an over- by weeping guitars and realist stories about dogs COLD WAter sized t-shirt and your favourite pair of Ray-Bans. Calgary, AB and trucks? Calgary’s Cowpuncher know how to thecourtneys.bandcamp.com FRI 11PM: THE PALOMINO throw a veritable hoe-down, setting their high- What began as a way for Kevin Stebner, Stalwart energy country n’ roll as the soundtrack to a thou- Sons frontman and Bart Records head honcho, COUSINS sand shotgunned beers and high-kicked Chucks. to emote in a genre outside of post-hardcore has Halifax, NS Single or taken, it doesn’t matter: Cowpuncher will quickly blossomed into a gritty, resounding and fully- FRI 11PM: Dickens hit on you. fleshed alt-country project. Cold Water bridge the SAT 12AM: BROKEN CITY wepunchcows.com gap between post-hardcore and country with unlikely Perfectly imperfect, ramshackle pop from the eastern ease and grace, shining new light on the foothills reaches of our nation. Cousins have long been held Crimson that envelope us. as the golden standard for forward-thinking indie Calgary, AB coldwater.bandcamp.com pop: each song twists and turns on itself with gleeful Thu 4:30PM: East Village abandon. It’s easy to see why they keep mesmerizing As a member of TheRinseOut, a collective of Calgary COP CITY/CHILL PILLARS audiences year after year. producers, musicians and designers, Crimson has Orlando, FL cousinscousins.bandcamp.com been making some of the best forward-thinking THU 4PM: LOCAL 510 electronic music the city has ever heard. Guaranteed

28 to be equally as good for your mind as it is your body storytelling and traditional songwriting. SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS and soul. crimsn.bandcamp.com thedeepdarkwoods.com

CROSSS MAC DEMARCO Montreal, QC Montreal, QC FRI 7:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB THU 10:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB Through an unholy union of sludgy, lo-fi garage and SAT 4PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA way-out psychedelia, the ulterior, distortion-heavy, SAT 11PM: FLAMES CENTRAL mellow noise will leave your teeth hurting and Calgary favourite, Montreal-via-Edmonton wildman your eyes sore from being hypnotized for roughly a crooner Mac DeMarco returns to Sled Island to century. crosss.bandcamp.com once again unleash a set (or three) of his misch- evious stage antics and perfectly sweet indie pop rock songs. It’s that perfect line-walking, between CRYSTAL SWELLS over-the-top slapstick performer and genuine song Vancouver, BC craftsman that has helped earn Mac a reputation as WED 10:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS an absolute can’t-miss show. We promise, you won’t Straight from our west-coast neighbours comes a be able to miss Mac DeMarco at Sled Island 2013! surfy surge of radical, garage-infused rock ‘n’ roll. macdemarco.bandcamp.com They sound like beachside shindigs, bottled in primo band form with grappling, springtide vocals riding waves of feedback that make you wanna skinny-dip DENT MAY all day long. crystalswells.bandcamp.com Oxford, MS THU 9:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB FRI 4:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT DAYWALKER SAT 11PM: TUBBY DOG Calgary, AB 6/5 dentists may recommend bringing your dancin’ SAT 9PM: THE PALOMINO shoes to this one. Come get weird in some lustrous There’s a new breed of shit-kickers in town and ‘80s era synth-pop and be so delightfully surprised they’re turning amps up to 11 and crushing audi- when it dabbles into saxophonic stylings. The gleam- ences everywhere in their wake. Barely a year old, ing dance-ability potential here is off the charts. Daywalker whip up a potent, volatile potable of dentmay.com brazen, brash and unhinged rock and roll. It’s time sex, drugs and rock n’ roll became the dirtbag motto once more. daywalkercalgary.bandcamp.com DEVONIAN GARDENS Calgary, AB WED 10PM: BROKEN CITY DEAD SOFT Previously Deadhorse, Devonian Gardens had to Vancouver, BC change their name due to legal issues. Not that WED 9PM: TUBBY DOG they’ve slowed down, by any means: these interstel- Four-chord lucid shoegaze from Vancouver. Dead lar voyageurs travelled across and beyond the mul- Soft’s smooth, catchy vocal harmonies juxtapose the tiple planes of existence in their damp sweat lodge noisy guitar and bass rocking alongside a frantic in order to bring us some of the finest psych-rock to drummer. Moments of psychedelic airiness subside come out of the prairies in some time. Turn on, tune into focused grunge-pop; float away. in, drop out, get weird! deadsoft.bandcamp.com devoniangardens.com DEADKILL THE DODOS Seattle, WA San Francisco, CA FRI 7PM: NEW BLACK SAT 5:15PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA SAT 4PM: THE PALOMINO Hopefully you caught The Dodos at Sled Island 2008 Psychologists rejoice, necrophilia is a lyrical theme but if not, here’s your chance! Known for an alterna- again. Deadkill has a near-atavistic loyalty to Bay tive instrumental approach involving garbage can Area thrash and their muscular, riff-driven psycho- drums, vibraphone and acoustic guitar played like a punk never slows down for long enough to apologize. punk’s electric. dodosmusic.net Songs about aberrant behaviour haven’t been this good in decades. deadkill.bandcamp.com DOOM SQUAD Toronto, ON SAT 11PM: THE HIFI CLUB THE DEEP DARK WOODS Occult freaks make good drone pop to counteract the Saskatoon, SK bad effects of being alive. You are alone. It is night FRI 10PM: FLAMES CENTRAL time. Doom Squad fills your head with vague ideas, The name of this band couldn’t be more suiting, half-truths, steadfast rhythms, sparse melodies, as their heartbreaking country and roots elements bloody hands, bloody feet, shallow breaths, scary joy. resonate like a cold northern winter spent in the doomsquadmusic.com woods. Organs, pedal steel and fiddles flood genuine 29 colin stetson Montreal, QC WD E 8:30PM: COMMONWEALTH Sled Island is thrilled to present Polaris Music Prize Nominee Colin Stetson’s Cal- gary debut! The touring member of Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre and Bon Iver has performed bass saxophone with artists as diverse as David Byrne, Tom Waits and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. However, it is arguably Stetson’s solo com- positions that astound more than all else in their smart and fiercely emotional combination of jazz, drone, industrial music and pop. His stunningly physical live performances are as breathtaking to listen to as they must be to perform. Certainly, Stetson is one of the more unique artists we have the pleasure of presenting this year. His demanding technique blurs genre boundaries so that they become useless road markers on a worn map — Stetson operates seemingly via instinct alone and it following him proves to be a challenge. The range of sounds, timbres and textures Stetson manages to wring out of his saxophone seem other-worldly and haunting, as if the winds of spirits comforting, lulling you into a trance as his stream of notes, like endless rain, themselves speak through Stetson. Stetson is macabre-sounding but oddly filters through your subconscious.colinstetson.com

from acoustic instruments and makes every single DRAGON FLI EMPIRE ENERGETIC ACTION vibration matter, topping everything off with humble, Calgary, AB Edmonton, AB easy-going vocals. hannahepperson.bandcamp.com THU 10PM: NEW BLACK WED 6:30PM: NEW BLACK You shouldn’t need an introduction to Calgary’s The name really says it all. These Edmonton punks premiere hip hop duo, but if you’ve been living under studied King Crimson and Devo records simultane- EXTRA HAPPY GHOST!!! a rock for the past decade, get wise to the way these ously, resulting in complex bass lines, busy drums, Calgary, AB guys keep the funk alive and make jazzy old-school shouty vocals and scratchy guitars. Their instrumen- TUE 12AM: COMMONwealth downstairs new. With intelligence, humour and undeniable beats tally-astute brand of sweaty post-punk has turned Metallic pop-melodies decay into a distorted they celebrate the local, the engaged, the stuff of heads all across Canada. abstract of psych-rock and punk influences. These daily life. dragonfliempire.com energeticaction.bandcamp.com tensely isolated textures feel like the warm blanket while sleeping on a cold, hard floor. soundcloud.com/extrahappyghost DROP THE LIME KRIS ELLESTAD Brooklyn, NY Calgary, AB THU 8:15PM: EAST VILLAGE SAT 7:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB FAUX FUR Born Luca Venezia, Drop the Lime has never shied Until you’ve seen him live, it’s hard to fully compre- Calgary, AB away from incorporating hairpin turns and wobbling, hend Ellestad’s seemingly effortless and devastat- FRI 1:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT off-centre bass into his cut-up, tropical-flavoured ing, crooned delivery of expert folk songcraft. While The tender age of the highly revered members of barn burners. Though he got his start in breakcore, his performances have become increasingly rare Faux Fur are surprising given the potency of talent he’s been moving towards incorporating his love of in Calgary over the years, they have also become and expertise of craft. These YYC youngins’ fashion rockabilly into his twisted Trouble & Bass signature increasingly vital in a genre that too easily takes the weirdo post-punk tendencies in such a meticulous style. dropthelime.com middle road. krisellestad.bandcamp.com way, they are vital and crucial Calgary, keeping the scene alive and well in these parts. ECONOMICS THE ESCORTS fauxfurband.bandcamp.com Saskatoon, SK Calgary, AB SAT 7PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE WED 6PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS FEEL ALRIGHT Dean Summach blurs the boundaries between elec- Somewhere between Johnny Thunders’ gnarled rendi- Calgary, AB tronica, pop, and post-rock, crafting densely layered tion of “Pipeline” and the Ramones’ bouncy cover of THU 3PM: BROKEN CITY PATIO instrumentals in his basement. Loops repeat, shift “Do You Wanna Dance?,” the Escorts settle in for the FRI 12AM: BROKEN CITY and build, beats rise and crumble into atmospheric night, boozed up, stripped down and dizzy from rock It’s like they roped in the sun, housed it in a garage dust. Live, he promises a banging, improvisatory and roll’s vertiginous quest for immortality. Let’s get and surfed sunbeams, perfecting their balmy, festi- show – each one different from the last. sweaty, let’s get weird, let’s shotgun another beer — val sound while being drenched in solar flares. Es- economics.bandcamp.com the Escorts will make sure that no one’s going home sentially, saying they sound blissfully summery is a alone tonight. escorts-yyc.bandcamp.com sore understatement. We promise that after listening to these Palgarians, you will feel fucking amazing. ELGIN-SKYE feelalright.bandcamp.com Ottawa, ON HANNAH EPPERSON FRI 7PM: WINE-OHS Vancouver, BC Armed with nothing but a guitar, a looper pedal, THU 8PM: THE IRONWOOD FIELD + STREAM and her voice, Elgin-Skye McLaren is a one-woman FRI 8PM: WINE-OHS Edmonton, AB art-rock machine. Bouncing between punky, folky, SAT 9PM: THE IRONWOOD WED 8PM: TUBBY DOG poppy and ethereal modes, she twangs, bleats, hoots Hannah Epperson’s looped fiddle frolics with itself: Field + Stream yearn for another era, before Stephen and peeps her way through naïf-Olympian songs of serene harmonies seem to appear out of thin air and Malkmus ever met the Jicks, when Sebadoh and broken relationships and zombie invasions. baroque arrangements give way to world-weary folk. Guided by Voices were streaming college airwaves elgin-skye.com Epperson coaxes an astonishing array of sounds while you ate hotdogs in a crowded food court. 30

Come loiter, as these fuzzy, lo-fi “shit-rockers” from post-hardcore Edmontonians work with bleeding entirely mind-expanding and genre-defying, Frontier Edmonton are not to be missed. mouths and broken strings. Forget about well-coiffed Ruckus are analogous to Neutral Milk Hotel, if Jeff fieldandstream.bandcamp.com mohawks and girl troubles, these guys scrape Mangum had been raised by wolves away from the grime out of the gutter and drink it down with society. Frontman Matthew Milia’s incredibly strong mouthwash and dog food. flint.bandcamp.com writing style dominates the songs, moving them FIRE NEXT TIME away from their traditional structure to transform Edmonton, AB them into quasi-spoken word sagas of dust-blown FRI 10PM: THE IRONWOOD FOAM LAKE loneliness and isolation. It doesn’t get more life- Saskatoon, SK Sometime in the seventies, people decided that punk affirming than this.frontierruckus.com rock was going to consist of three chords played WED 10:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS on broken electric guitars. Fire Next Time keeps the Four brothers from Saskatoon not only try to unite angst and energy of the old punks but wrings it their family name, but also a very broad scope of FURY THINGS through bluegrass misdemeanours, forever blurring music genres. Elements of rock, folk and new wave Minneapolis, MN the lines between rural hardship and urban misery. are fused with a defiant solidarity. FRI 11:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS firenexttime.bandcamp.com foamlakeband.com It’s easy to forget that Minneapolis was a hotbed for some of the biggest, most seminal ‘80s and ‘90s indie rock, setting the foundation for entire genera- FIST CITY FREAK HEAT WAVES tions’ worth of bands to come. Fury Things fit nicely Calgary, AB Victoria, BC into their hometown’s history, bringing a loud, furi- FRI 1:30PM: COMMONWEALTH WED 10PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS ous blend of noise rock, power pop and fuzzed-out Freak Heat’s subconscious is fully realized, which is SAT 11PM: BROKEN CITY rock and roll. This is going to be your new favourite why they are able to produce immaculacy by means With a dizzying concoction of surf guitar, garage rock band in no time. furythings.bandcamp.com frenzy and angular post-punk, Fist City have quietly of post-punk elemental music. Sounding at times (with their amps nevertheless turned up really loud) dispersed and suffused, and other times downright become Calgary’s hardest working and most deserv- prolific, this band’s varied extractions and explora- GAYTHEIST ing band. For fans of Shadowy Men On A Shadowy tions are of a collective mind, and they many a time Portland, OR Planet, Devo and… honestly? Great music. take the brain-path less beaten. FRI 11PM: TUBBY DOG fistcity.bandcamp.com freakheatwaves.bandcamp.com SAT 6PM: THE PALOMINO It seems this band has found the elusive common FLINT FRONTIER RUCKUS ground between punk and glam, frenetically tamper- ing with shout-along vocals and hard-hitting drums. Edmonton, AB Detroit, MI Gaytheist pours sludgy guitar fuzz underneath FRI 8:30PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE FRI 12AM: THE PALOMINO catchy, off-melodic vocals, joining the disparate Gasping for air and playing too fast, these mathy Part extended art project, part traditional folk band,

32 pieces together with lighthearted lyrics and socially GRETCHEN SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS progressive goals. gaytheist.bandcamp.com Calgary, AB SAT 8PM: TUBBY DOG GHIBLI Wading in the vast oceans of experimental surf, these Edmonton, AB boys twang and jangle with dash and nimbleness that WED 9:30PM: BAMBOO is beyond most musicians. They grasp tightly, never Thomas Michael’s cerebral, sample-based elec- sounding washed out. gretchen.bandcamp.com tronica is as danceable as it is nuanced. Michael has married hook-laden beats with the idea of acute GROUNDERS mindfulness to create a sound that is as refined as Toronto, ON it is downright catchy. Wear your thinkin’ caps and THU 11PM: THE PALOMINO bring your dancin’ shoes. ghibli.bandcamp.com The buzz surrounding these twangy indie rockers is well deserved to say the least. Their addictive songs are penetrated with complex arrangements tethered GHOSTKEEPER to astonishingly catchy hooks liken to comparable Calgary, AB bands such as Grizzly Bear and Wolf Parade. The mu- FRI 7PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA sic will remain in your head long after you’ve stopped SAT 4PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS listening, but trust us, that’s a good thing. Northern Alberta is vast and cold and the geogra- groundermusic.com phy lends itself amazingly well to isolation rockers like Ghostkeeper. Shane Ghostkeeper’s conversa- tional vocal style is the sole constant in songs that GROWN-UPS cover alt-country, classic blues and ragtime jazz. Calgary, AB Ghostkeeper’s diverse instrumentation and ever- THU 11PM: BROKEN CITY changing compositions all come together to form Now that Dr. Josiah Hughes’ arm isn’t all banged some of the most compelling folk weirdness you’ll up (bike safety is important, kids!), the trio that is ever hear. ghostkeepermusic.com Grown-Ups can get back to doing what they do best: two-minute, thrashy punk songs that inspire the youth of today to light stuff on fire and pick up their GLITTER skateboards to go cause trouble. Grown-Ups are Calgary, AB anything but, so let’s go rip it up like when we were WED 12:30AM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS more fun. grown-ups.bandcamp.com Glitter are raw, misanthropic hardcore from right here in Calgary. “Pissed Who?”, said one fan, when Glitter arrived on the scene last summer GSTS! with a high-profile opening slot ahead of Olympia Abbotsford, BC powerhouse Milk Music. The crowd stood silently in FRI 11:30PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR reverence, watching the singer writhe around like GSTS!’s eviscerating post-hardcore is about as gen- unbridled sexuality incarnate. tle as a piano falling out of a window but that’s how it’s supposed to be. There aren’t enough synonyms for the word “heavy” to do GSTS! justice, so let’s just GOLD leave it at “heavy.” Out of Abbotsford and into the Calgary, AB fire, as it were.gyestyes.bandcamp.com TUE 9PM: COMMONWEALTH Swoonable spacey dream pop like whoa! It’s hard not to picture Gold as something of a Calgary CHRISTIAN HANSEN supergroup considering the pedigree of Kaelen Ohm Toronto, ON (Shrapnelles), Rena Kozak (Shematomas), Matthew WED 11PM: REPUBLIK Swann (Extra Happy Ghost, Astral Swans) and Chris After spending many years in Edmonton with the Dadge (literally every other Calgary band?). One of Autistics and then sharpening his craft in Toronto, our absolute favourites! Christian Hansen returns to Alberta to show off his goldmusic.bandcamp.com habit-forming, alternative disco-pop. Impulsive energy and magnetic vigour are just some of the things Hansen has in spades. THE GOOEYS christianhansenband.com Calgary, AB Tue 10pm: Commonwealth Downstairs THU 9:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS HEAVEN FOR REAL Every dentist’s worst nightmare and your vivd fever Halifax, NS dream, these essential, saccharine garagers give FRI 3PM: LOCAL 510 a whole new meaning to the term “sugar rush.” The Grundy bros. of Quaker Parents have joined Na- Ooey-gooey bonbons of songs shrink-wrapped for than Doucet to form a puckish triad whose palpable, chewing, chomping pleasure will send you into a too-real, pop-rocky culminations are spirited with tizzying, sticky-sweet hubbub. Just watch out for the youthful naiveté which cannot help but pinch your inevitable crash later on, kiddies! cheeks and colour them impressed. thegooeys.bandcamp.com heavenforreal.bandcamp.com 33 explosions in the sky Austin, TX FRI 9:30PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA Nestled in the heart of the Texan lowlands, Explosions in the Sky first came together in 1999 in the oasis town of Austin, TX, known more for its endur- ing motto to “Keep Austin Weird” than for its state’s conservative masculine identity. On the strength of their debut album, How Strange, Innocence, which was initially distributed in the form of a couple hundred highly coveted CD-Rs (and later reissued via Temporary Residence in 2005), EITS stepped forth as one of the most promising new bands playing moody, brittle, dynamic post- rock. Since then, they’ve laid waste to countless stages across the world as they meander and weave their way through their extended suites, exploring the wide spectrum of desire. Explosions in the Sky continue to earn their reputation as one of the most stunning live acts touring today, ten plus years into their career. Sled Island couldn’t be happier to be presenting their uncompromising, thoroughly cathar- backdrop of a city much like their own, EITS will transform you, laying your tic and emotionally intense instrumental music as the perfect soundtrack to feelings out to dry in the setting sun as the world takes on new meaning. the sunset at Olympic Plaza, in the heart of downtown Calgary. Against the explosionsinthesky.com

soulful, Pilsner-fuelled vocals, thick and hummable TIM HECKER HEXRAY fuzz bass and drums tighter than a nun’s… ahem. Montreal, QC Calgary, AB highkicks.bandcamp.com FRI 11PM: VERTIGO THEATRE WED 10PM: TUBBY DOG Being hailed as the most significant ambient HexRay is a brand new band, but it’s loaded with music artists since Brian Eno might daunt some, some of Calgary’s finest musicians and the quartet HOMESHAKE but Tim Hecker’s work stands up to the hype. The has already earned itself a reputation as one of the Montréal, QC Montreal-based sound artist creates intense, best live acts in town. HexRay’s pedigree is undeni- FRI 3:30PM: COMMONWEALTH multilayered soundscapes that exist at the nexus able but they’re not coasting on status alone – these Come get delicious by marinating in some truly plea- of melody and noise, chaos and order. Screaming four are proving themselves all over again. surable, groovy garage-rock. Peter Sagar recorded loops of feedback, altered found-sound samples his debut, The Homeshake Tape, with the aid of his and shimmering keyboard textures bounce off one buddies Jackson MacIntosh (Sheer Agony) and well- another. Distortion and echo generate eerie and HIDDEN TOWERS known weirdo Mac Demarco. Their laid-back, mid-fi surprising rhythms within a melancholy and almost Vancouver, BC productions promise to make you feel reeeaal nice. spiritual envelope. Like the soundtrack to a half- SAT 2PM: THE PALOMINO homeshake.bandcamp.com remembered fever dream, Hecker’s work creates Don’t be fooled by the seemingly endless mishmash a meditative space where anxiety and comfort, of genres jammed into a typical Hidden Towers song: they make easy work of the heroically sized HOOK AND EYE tension and repetition, coexist. Calgary, AB sunblind.net songwriting, infusing their heavy grunge with prog- and post-metal passages in a way that comes out of FRI 6PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS left-field and, yet, seems totally natural. Calgary is not normally known for producing dour, AMY HEF hiddentowers.bandcamp.com dreamy slowcore but Hook and Eye’s work within the Calgary, AB genre is simply amazing. Their innovative approach WED 9PM: REPUBLIK adds syncopated drums, catchy guitar arpeggios and Amy Heffernan won AMP Radio’s Rockstar contest in THE HIGHEST ORDER 7th-chords without sacrificing a sullen aesthetic. 2012 after a long grind in Calgary and Los Angeles Toronto, ON hookandeyeband.bandcamp.com proving she has what it takes to make it in the music THU 11PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR business. Armed with a guitar a mean set of pipes, Amy Take the core members of alt-country’s One Hundred HOOVES was the first female musician ever to do an oil rig tour Dollars and hand them a bag of psychedelics. You Vancouver, BC in Northern Alberta. now, more-or-less, have the sound of psych-country group Highest Order. Join them as their western THU 9:30PM: REPUBLIK guitar spirals in and out of the night with Simone Hooves makes energetic, off-kilter punk rock. These RYAN HEMSWORTH Schmidt’s otherworldly vocals. four Vancouver girls combine lo-fi surf guitar with Halifax, NS highest-order.com dynamic, theatrical vocals; their inventive songwrit- SAT 12AM: THE HIFI CLUB ing style references the band’s musical influences Ryan Hemsworth has set the Canadian electronic but Hooves has a sound all its own. music scene on fire with his incredible remixes HIGHKICKS hoovesvancouver.bandcamp.com and original productions. Hemsworth is known for Calgary, AB using short samples and previously-unheard audio TUE 11:30PM: COMMONWEALTH DOUG HOYER manipulations. If you haven’t heard any of his tracks While the duo of Danny Vacon (The Dudes, Dojo Work- Edmonton, AB yet, you NEED to go to this show. If you have heard horse) and Matt Doherty (Raleigh, Axis of Conversa- THU 3:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT his music before, you’re already going to his show. tion) could easily get by on heartthrob status alone, Originally in danger of becoming known as Alberta’s ryanhemsworth.com they instead have taken it upon themselves to prove that there’s still a place in Calgary’s heart for true answer to Tiny Tim – tweeing it up with a ukulele – rock ‘n’ roll. A self-contained party unit made up of Hoyer’s instead becoming our own Bryan Ferry. His 34

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SATURDAY JUNE 22nd EAST VILLAGE BLOCK PARTY OLYMPIC PLAZA 3:00 LOWELL THURSDAY JUNE 20th 4:00 MAC DEMARCO 4:00 IVAN RANKIC 6:00 SMALLTOWN DJS FRIDAY JUNE 21st 5:15 THE DODOS 4:30 CRIMSON 6:45 KINGDOM & KELELA 7:00 GHOSTKEEPER 6:30 THE THERMALS 5:00 MARK MILLS 8:00 DROP THE LIME 8:00 THE BESNARD LAKES 8:15 AKRON/FAMILY 5:30 SABOTA 9:00 KEYS N KRATES 9:30 EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 9:30 THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN TUESDAY Commonwealth Glenbow Museum - Broken City Broken City Patio Commonwealth Downstairs ConocoPhilips Theatre Milk Tiger Lounge The Ship & Anchor Victoria Park Parklet 2:00 PM Art Opening: 2:30 PM Victoria Park 3:00 PM Mural Launch 3:30 PM Pre-Screening Patio Artists: Peter Tomanek, For the most up 4:00 PM Party For Apocalypse: A Rob Knudsen, Mynthia 4:30 PM Bill Callahan Tour Film 5:00 PM 5:30 PM to date schedule, 6:00 PM Apocalypse: 6:30 PM Art Opening: A Bill Callahan Tour Film Sled Island Poster 7:00 PM Show please check 7:30 PM Museum Hours Show director: 8:00 PM Nudie Jeans Presents: Sled Island Kick-Off (7:20pm) 8:30 PM Punk Rock Bingo Josh Ruck Punk Rock Bingo sledisland.com 9:00 PM Teledrome 9:30 PM Gold Sled Island Film contains programming 10:00 PM Samantha Savage After Party: running beyond the core festival dates: Smith Museum Hours 10:30 PM The Gooeys 11:00 PM Chains Of Love The Globe Cinema 11:30 PM Victories Monday, June 24th, 7pm: Tower 12:00 AM HighKicks Monday, June 24th, 9pm: The Day The Earth Stood Still 12:30 AM Extra Happy Ghost!!! Tuesday, June 25th, 7pm: The Legend of Kaspar Hauser Wild Rose Soul [La Leggenda di Kaspar Hauser] 1:00 AM Club DJs 1:30 AM Tuesday, June 25th, 9pm: The Selected Work 2:00 AM of Emily Kai Bock & Evan Prosofsky WEDNESDAY Glenbow Hillhurst Museum Hillhurst Sunnyside Sled Island #1 Legion Common- - Conoco- Sunnyside Farmer’s Milk National The Contem- Down- #1 Legion Broken CJSW Common- wealth Phillips Farmer’s Market Beer Tiger Music New The Palomino The Ship Simmons porary Tubby Under- Wine- stairs Upstairs Bamboo City 90.9 FM wealth Downstairs Dicken’s Theatre Hifi Club Market Gardens Lounge Centre Black Palomino Upstairs Republik & Anchor Building Art Salon Dog study Ohs 1:00 PM Wimbledon Wednesdays 1:30 PM Sled Island 2:00 PM Edition CJSW (Table 2:30 PM On-Air Tennis!) Session 3:00 PM TBA Hillhurst 3:30 PM Sunnyside Farmer’s Market - 4:00 PM Hillhurst Sled Island Art Edition Sunnyside 4:30 PM Farmer’s Opening: Market Forms Presents: 5:00 PM Artist: TBA National Brent 5:30 PM Music Centre Morley & Sled Smith 6:00 PM Glenbow Island Film Museum Skye Presents: The Escorts & Sled 6:30 PM Island Film Wallace New Presents: SUUNS Energetic 7:00 PM Friends Europe Action Bitter Sign Painters The 2011 The Black Art 7:30 PM Fictions (7:20) Almighty Dots Opening: Astral Rhombus If I Look Sled Island Swans Strong; Contem- 8:00 PM You Look porary Big Brave Alanad- Strong Black Art Salon Field + Ion ale Thunder Stream 8:30 PM Magazine Amp Radio Colin Presents: Latcho Presents: Artists: Jllian 9:00 PM Pho King Stetson Drom Daschuk, Tapes BeatRoute Hosted Julien Presents: Presents: After Amy Hef Dead by Mr. Party: Fournier, Soft 9:30 PM Austin Taylor, Koban Ghibli Valleys Geography SUUNS Kyote Sunshine Absolute Iceberg Under- Omar Lalani, 10:00 PM Europe CSIF & Sled Ferg 2011 ground Island Film Dave Lieske, Freak Devonian Valiska TBA Bleachers Presents: Presents: Kyle Mecalf, HexRay 10:30 PM Heat Gardens Lindsay Waves Crystal Sanctums Swans Foam La Luna Secret Wells Callow 11:00 PM Swells Lake Cinema Viet Travis Burro Young Christian Bike-In w/ Catgut CSIF French 11:30 PM Cong Bretzer Benjamins Hansen New Wave Jessica The TAIWAN Blist Ben Code Classic 12:00 AM Nym- Disaster Orange Jalbert Peace phets Raleigh Calvin Bear The Holle- Kids 12:30 AM Love Moun- Chantrelles rado Glitter Ital Charlie tain Mise En Burning 1:00 AM CB Scene Love Iceage Unknown Humans Gaslamp No Sinner 1:30 AM Mortal Killer Orchestra 2:00 AM

THURSDAY Glenbow Hillhurst Museum Hillhurst Sunnyside Sled Island #1 Legion Common- - Conoco- Sunnyside Farmer’s Milk National The Contem- Down- #1 Legion Broken CJSW Common- wealth Phillips Farmer’s Market Beer Tiger Music New The Palomino The Ship Simmons porary Tubby Under- Wine- stairs Upstairs Bamboo City 90.9 FM wealth Downstairs Dicken’s Theatre Hifi Club Market Gardens Lounge Centre Black Palomino Upstairs Republik & Anchor Building Art Salon Dog study Ohs 1:00 PM Wimbledon Wednesdays 1:30 PM Sled Island 2:00 PM Edition CJSW (Table 2:30 PM On-Air Tennis!) Session 3:00 PM TBA Hillhurst 3:30 PM Sunnyside Farmer’s Market - 4:00 PM Sled Island Art Edition 4:30 PM Opening: Forms 5:00 PM Artist: TBA Brent 5:30 PM Morley Smith 6:00 PM Skye The Escorts 6:30 PM Wallace New SUUNS Energetic 7:00 PM Friends Europe Action Bitter Sign Painters The 2011 The Black Art 7:30 PM Fictions (7:20) Almighty Dots Opening: Astral Rhombus If I Look Sled Island Swans Strong; Contem- 8:00 PM You Look porary Big Brave Alanad- Strong Black Art Salon Field + 8:30 PM ale Thunder Stream Colin Latcho Artists: Jllian 9:00 PM Stetson Drom Daschuk, Hosted After Amy Hef Julien Dead Fournier, 9:30 PM by Mr. Party: Soft Geography Austin Taylor, Iceberg Koban Ghibli Valleys SUUNS Kyote Sunshine Omar Lalani, 10:00 PM Europe Dave Lieske, Ferg Freak Devonian Valiska 2011 TBA Bleachers Kyle Mecalf, HexRay 10:30 PM Heat Gardens Lindsay Waves Crystal Sanctums Swans Foam La Luna Secret Wells Callow 11:00 PM Swells Lake Cinema Viet Travis Burro Young Christian Bike-In w/ Catgut CSIF French 11:30 PM Cong Bretzer Benjamins Hansen New Wave Jessica The TAIWAN Blist Ben Code Classic 12:00 AM Nym- Disaster Orange Jalbert Peace phets Raleigh Calvin Bear The Holle- Kids 12:30 AM Love Moun- Chantrelles rado Glitter Ital Charlie tain Mise En Burning 1:00 AM CB Scene Love Iceage Unknown Humans Gaslamp No Sinner 1:30 AM Mortal Killer Orchestra 2:00 AM

THURSDAY Common- East East Fairmont #1 Legion wealth Village Village Ex- Palliser Local 510 National The Down- #1 Legion Broken Broken CJSW 90.9 Common- Down- Riverwalk perience Crystal Golden Parking Music New The Palomino The Ship Tubby stairs Upstairs Bamboo City City Patio FM wealth stairs Dicken’s Plaza Center Ballroom Age Club Hifi Club Ironwood Local 510 Lot MOCA Centre Black Palomino Upstairs Republik & Anchor Dog Wine-Ohs 11:30 AM CJSW On-Air 12:00 PM Session: Fury Things Music 12:30 PM Calgary & Sled Island Presents: 01:00 PM Panel Violet Series: Age 01:30 PM London Calling Iceberg w/ Bob Ferg 02:00 PM Van Heur, Andy CJSW The Clayton, On-Air Back- Adrien 02:30 PM Music Session: homes Durand Calgary Shooting John Mixer Guns Wesley 03:00 PM Cole- Feel Slow man III Alright Learn- 03:30 PM ers East Village Doug Block Party Hoyer 04:00 PM Viet Ivan Cop Cong Rankic City/ 04:30 PM Chill Crimson Pillars Jamaican Queens 05:00 PM Mark Art Kenna Mills Opening: Burima 05:30 PM Etsy & CJSW Sabota Sled National On-Air Island Music 06:00 PM Session: Presents: Centre Art Opening: & Sled Zebras- Smalltown Spaces At Island Film Jessica DJs Artists: MOCA Presents: sieres Brittney Bear Jalbert 06:30 PM Hat and Lea Music Kingdom Bucknell Wave- Waste & Kelela makers: Presents: (6:45 pm) Le Chant 07:00 PM Avenue See more Vice Magazine East Village Magazine Des Rap X Axis of The Caroline Presents: Block Party Presents: Ondes Conver- Cable- Keating 07:30 PM Art: Artists: sation Knits Lowell Humble Calvin Silent Shout Wonder Love Presents: 08:00 PM Theatre, Les Drop Steve Cot- AM Hannah Cove The No River Men- The tingham, Juan Static Epperson Tpada Court- 08:30 PM tettes Lime Gonzalez, neys The I-Robot, Lab Instrument Laura A. Saik, Demon- Beatroute Besnard Coast 09:00 PM Lakes Absolute Jake Klien, stration: BC & Under- Botanical Winnie- Ondes The Javelin ground Keys N Drawing Rene North- Obey Warm White Noble Cooper Presents: Krates Hell cote Martenot The Present: Collective Soda Ash 9:30 PM Thiefs Curated Crooks Cotton Structured Falls The Candy CITR Witch- by Justin Dent Sharing Hooves Presents: Abstraction Gooeys Party stone Waddell Presents: May 10:00 PM National Sled Island Music July Talk Sunshine The LBJs Kuhrye- Ben Centre Dragon Chairs The Comedy w/ oo Caplan Presents: Fli Beets 10:30 PM Eric Andre, Empire Zebras- The Brett Gel- Mac De- Eric The Lad Roam- sieres Weir man, Andy Marco Chenaux Haynes Mags ing 11:00 PM Storms Catl Bestie Grown- and Johnny Ital John K Ground- The The Ups Pemberton Samson ers Highest Mystery 11:30 PM Order In Old House Sled Island Miesha Of Vans Running Biblical Pete This THEESat- Blood- & the Presents: Swanson Hisses isfaction bath Comedy w/ 12:00 AM Spanks Pat Kelly, The Jon Young Open Chlori- Smalltown Valleys The Chris Locke, DJs Bitterweed Sara Hen- Spencer Braised Relation- nator nessey, Sarah 12:30 AM Blues ship Draw Explo- Skip B-Lines Torche Special Jerusalem Burnt Super- Adams, Brent In My Constantine, sion Jensen Guests Ones chunk Chris Griffin, 1:00 AM Group Heart Jeff Toth Evy Jane White OFF! Suuns Old Man Lung Markley 1:30 AM Special Guests 2:00 AM

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Alberta Fairmont #1 Legion #1 Legion Printmakers’ Alexandra Common- Paliser Crystal Golden Local 510 Milk Tiger National Olympic The Palomino The Ship Sloth Vertigo Downstairs Upstairs Society Centre Avalanche! Bamboo Broken City wealth Dicken’s Ballroom Flames Central Age Club Hifi Club Ironwood Local 510 Parking Lot Lounge Music Centre New Black Plaza The Palomino Upstairs & Anchor Records Tubby Dog Theatre Wine-Ohs 11:00 AM 11:00 AM

POP Montreal Presents: 11:30 AM 11:30 AM Technical Kidman 12:00 PM 12:00 PM Shooting Guns 12:30 PM 12:30 PM The Nymphets Kurvi Tasch Pick A Piper

Prohab Party: 1:00 PM 1:00 PM Surf Kitties! Gianna Sled Island Slam Dunk Lauren Panel Series. Speak- 1:30 PM 1:30 PM The Nancees Fist City Faux Fur ers to be Jay Arner (1:45 pm) Confirmed 2:00 PM 2:00 PM Paper Beat Hidden Scissors Towers 2:30 PM 2:30 PM Tough Age UBT Old And Renny Wilson Weird 3:00 PM 3:00 PM Heaven For Anchoress Caves Real 3:30 PM 3:30 PM Victories Homeshake The Beets (3:15) 4:00 PM 4:00 PM Art Opening: Invasives Monomyth TBA powder Hand To Eye blue To Land To 4:30 PM 4:30 PM Sky To Dent May

Artists: 5:00 PM 5:00 PM Botanical The Cantoo TBA The Seahags Drawing Club Basement Curated by Demons 5:30 PM Justin Waddell 5:30 PM Sandbox DJ Wah Salon Speakers to 6:00 PM 6:00 PM UN be Confirmed Seizure Salad Hook & Eye The Wizards Village

6:30 PM 6:30 PM Running

7:00 PM 7:00 PM Calvin Love Art Opening: Deadkill Ghostkeeper Knots Rene Hell Elgin-Skye Artists: Kelly Lifetime Presents: Smith and 7:30 PM 7:30 PM Gwen Mor- Crosss Violence gan, Joleen Structured Abstraction Toner and Presents: 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Nicholas Ashley Olman, Sled Island Trigger Effect The Besnard SAVK Le Revelateur Hannah Mohammed Krgovich Comedy w/ Exclaim! Presents: Lakes Epperson Rezaei and Ali Eric Andre, 8:30 PM 8:30 PM Shahab Brett Gelman, Ketamines Hosted By Afterparty: Flint Andy Haynes Hosted by TSN’s Wax Romeo I Used To Be and Johnny Dave Hodge Darker 9:00 PM 9:00 PM Mount Eerie Pemberton Jim Bryson NerdX Spencer Jo DJ Chris Vail Ought Pete Swan- The & The River son Abramson CJSW Presents: Jacks Singers 9:30 PM 9:30 PM Outer Minds Burnt Ones Book Of Explosions in Circles

CJSR Presents: Caverns the Sky 10:00 PM 10:00 PM NEEDS Arrowz Heidi Night The Deep Jamaican Fire Next 100 Mile- Technical Jerusalem In Alexander Committee Dark Woods Queens Time House Kidman My Heart 10:30 PM 10:30 PM Telstar Drugs Thee Oh Sees Stepmothers Adolyne

11:00 PM 11:00 PM War Baby The Allovers John Wesley Cousins John K. Sabo Forte The Cold Water Gaytheist Tim Hecker Coleman III Samson Washboard Union 11:30 PM 11:30 PM Walter TV Fury Things GSTS! Sled Island Comedy w/ Pat Kelly, 12:00 AM 12:00 AM White Lung Sons of Bears Feel Alright The Blind Joel Plaskett BadBadNot- Frontier Javelin Chris Locke, Shake Emergency Good Ruckus Sara Hen- nessey, Sarah 12:30 AM 12:30 AM Sissys Warm Soda Ken Mode Adams, Brent Constantine, Chris Griffin, 1:00 AM 1:00 AM Metz Big Eyes July Talk The Night Catl Jeff Toth Marchers 1:30 AM 1:30 AM

2:00 AM 2:00 AM For the most up to date schedule, MUSIC ART FILM COMEDY SPECIAL EVENTS ALL AGES please check sledisland.com

Alberta Fairmont #1 Legion #1 Legion Printmakers’ Alexandra Common- Paliser Crystal Golden Local 510 Milk Tiger National Olympic The Palomino The Ship Sloth Vertigo Downstairs Upstairs Society Centre Avalanche! Bamboo Broken City wealth Dicken’s Ballroom Flames Central Age Club Hifi Club Ironwood Local 510 Parking Lot Lounge Music Centre New Black Plaza The Palomino Upstairs & Anchor Records Tubby Dog Theatre Wine-Ohs 11:00 AM 11:00 AM

11:30 AM 11:30 AM Technical Kidman File Under: Music Presents: 12:00 PM 12:00 PM Shooting Guns Mint Records Presents: 12:30 PM 12:30 PM The Nymphets Kurvi Tasch Pick A Piper Halifax Pop Explosion Presents: 1:00 PM 1:00 PM Surf Kitties! Gianna Sled Island Slam Dunk Lauren Panel Series. Speak- 1:30 PM 1:30 PM The Nancees Fist City Faux Fur ers to be Jay Arner (1:45 pm) Confirmed 2:00 PM 2:00 PM Paper Beat Hidden Scissors Towers 2:30 PM 2:30 PM Tough Age UBT Old And Renny Wilson Weird CFCR Showcase 3:00 PM 3:00 PM Heaven For Anchoress Caves Real 3:30 PM 3:30 PM Victories Homeshake The Beets (3:15) Sloth Records In-Store Sessions 4:00 PM 4:00 PM Art Opening: Invasives Monomyth TBA powder Hand To Eye blue To Land To 4:30 PM 4:30 PM Sky To Dent May

Alberta Music Artists: Presents: 5:00 PM 5:00 PM Botanical The Cantoo TBA The Seahags Drawing Club Basement Curated by Demons 5:30 PM Justin Waddell 5:30 PM Sandbox DJ Wah Salon Speakers to 6:00 PM 6:00 PM UN be Confirmed Seizure Salad Hook & Eye The Wizards Village

6:30 PM 6:30 PM Running

Tim Hecker Presents: 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Calvin Love Art Opening: Deadkill Ghostkeeper Knots Rene Hell Elgin-Skye Artists: Kelly Smith and 7:30 PM 7:30 PM Gwen Mor- Crosss Violence gan, Joleen Toner and 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Nicholas Ashley Olman, Sled Island Trigger Effect The Besnard SAVK Le Revelateur Hannah Mohammed Krgovich Comedy w/ Exclaim! Presents: Lakes Epperson Rezaei and Ali Eric Andre, 8:30 PM 8:30 PM Shahab Brett Gelman, Ketamines Hosted By Afterparty: Flint Andy Haynes Wax Romeo I Used To Be and Johnny Darker 9:00 PM 9:00 PM Mount Eerie Pemberton Jim Bryson NerdX Spencer Jo DJ Chris Vail Ought Pete Swan- The & The River son Abramson Jacks Singers 9:30 PM 9:30 PM Outer Minds Burnt Ones Book Of Explosions in Circles Caverns the Sky 10:00 PM 10:00 PM NEEDS Arrowz Heidi Night The Deep Jamaican Fire Next 100 Mile- Technical Jerusalem In Alexander Committee Dark Woods Queens Time House Kidman My Heart 10:30 PM 10:30 PM Telstar Drugs Thee Oh Sees Stepmothers Adolyne

11:00 PM 11:00 PM War Baby The Allovers John Wesley Cousins John K. Sabo Forte The Cold Water Gaytheist Tim Hecker Coleman III Samson Washboard Union 11:30 PM 11:30 PM Walter TV Fury Things GSTS! Sled Island Comedy w/ Pat Kelly, 12:00 AM 12:00 AM White Lung Sons of Bears Feel Alright The Blind Joel Plaskett BadBadNot- Frontier Javelin Chris Locke, Shake Emergency Good Ruckus Sara Hen- nessey, Sarah 12:30 AM 12:30 AM Sissys Warm Soda Ken Mode Adams, Brent Constantine, Chris Griffin, 1:00 AM 1:00 AM Metz Big Eyes July Talk The Night Catl Jeff Toth Marchers 1:30 AM 1:30 AM

2:00 AM 2:00 AM For the most up to date schedule, SATURDAY please check sledisland.com

Central #1 Legion #1 Legion Alexandra Memorial Golden Local 510 National The Palomino Downstairs Upstairs Centre Bamboo Broken City Library CJSW 90.9 FM Dicken’s Flames Central Age Club Hifi Club Ironwood Local 510 Parking Lot Music Centre Olympic Plaza The Palomino Upstairs Republik Ship & Anchor Sloth Records Texas Lounge Tubby Dog 11:00 AM 11:00 AM Beatroute Annual Hangover Breakfast

11:30 AM 11:30 AM Free breakfast while supplies last! 12:00 PM 12:00 PM

12:30 PM 12:30 PM Lucid 44

1:00 PM 1:00 PM Art Opening: Philoceraptor Zen Mystery Sled Island Slow Down, Outlaws Of Yearn:Poetica Fogg Panel Series. Molasses Ravenhurst Artists: Speakers to be 1:30 PM 1:30 PM Christina Mayder CJSW On-Air Heidi Alexander Confirmed. and Lindsay Sorell, CSIF & Sled Island Colwyn Paddon Film Presents: Session TBA 2:00 PM and Sandrie 2:00 PM Woodward Sightlines Artist Talk and Seahorse The Moas Krang UN Blonde Workshop: North Country 2:30 PM 2:30 PM Cinema Cop City/ Chill Pillars 3:00 PM 3:00 PM MANcub Betrayers Lowell Monogamy Party Special Guest The Moon Repossessors 3:30 PM 3:30 PM Outer Minds

4:00 PM 4:00 PM Whitey The Slabs Mac DeMarco Deadkill Ghostkeeper Biblical TBA Peace Houston 4:30 PM 4:30 PM Circles

5:00 PM 5:00 PM The Dodos Rabbits Big Eyes TBA Shearing Pinx (5:15pm) 5:30 PM 5:30 PM Wild Rose Soul Club DJs 6:00 PM 6:00 PM Matthew A. Gaytheist Wilkinson 6:30 PM 6:30 PM Jamaican The Thermals Queens 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Economics

FFWD Presents: 7:30 PM 7:30 PM Jung People Kris Ellestad

8:00 PM 8:00 PM The Burnettes Rene Hell Akron/Family Black Magic Gretchen (8:15pm) Pyramid 8:30 PM 8:30 PM Javelin Samantha Hosted by John Wesley

John Dywer Presents: Savage Smith DJ Lorne B Coleman III 9:00 PM 9:00 PM Running Marble Lion Hannah Ep- DJ Noah York City Le Revelateur Daywalker Zen Mystery Soundtrack Quaker Parents person Fogg Karaoke 9:30 PM 9:30 PM Burnt Ones We Are The The Jesus And Brazilian Money Curated by TSN’s Jay Onrait City Mary Chain 10:00 PM 10:00 PM Cop City/ TBA Rabbits The Soft Option Johnny UN Kim Taylor White Women The Noble Thiefs The Bicycles Chill Pillars de Courcy & The Death 10:30 PM 10:30 PM The Beets Rangers Mount Eerie The Mants

11:00 PM 11:00 PM Heidi Vapid Fist City UBT Mac DeMarco Boogie Jim Bryson B-Lines MANCub Dent May Alexander Howser 11:30 PM 11:30 PM The Blind Shake Cowpuncher

12:00 AM 12:00 AM Warm Soda Scrapbooker Cousins Bitter Pricks Divine Fits Ryan Trigger Effect The Pack AD Hemsworth 12:30 AM 12:30 AM Thee Oh Sees

1:00 AM 1:00 AM Monogamy Metz The Thermals Party 1:30 AM 1:30 AM

2:00 AM 2:00 AM For the most up to date schedule, MUSIC ART FILM COMEDY SPECIAL EVENTS ALL AGES please check sledisland.com

Central #1 Legion #1 Legion Alexandra Memorial Golden Local 510 National The Palomino Downstairs Upstairs Centre Bamboo Broken City Library CJSW 90.9 FM Dicken’s Flames Central Age Club Hifi Club Ironwood Local 510 Parking Lot Music Centre Olympic Plaza The Palomino Upstairs Republik Ship & Anchor Sloth Records Texas Lounge Tubby Dog 11:00 AM 11:00 AM Beatroute Annual Hangover Breakfast

11:30 AM 11:30 AM Free breakfast while supplies last! 12:00 PM 12:00 PM

12:30 PM 12:30 PM Lucid 44 Saved By Vinyl Presents: 1:00 PM 1:00 PM Art Opening: Philoceraptor Zen Mystery Sled Island Slow Down, Outlaws Of Yearn:Poetica Fogg Panel Series. Molasses Ravenhurst Artists: Speakers to be 1:30 PM 1:30 PM Christina Mayder CJSW On-Air Heidi Alexander Confirmed. and Lindsay Sorell, Session Weird Canada Colwyn Paddon Presents: TBA 2:00 PM and Sandrie 2:00 PM Woodward Sightlines Artist Talk and Seahorse The Moas Krang UN Blonde Workshop: North Country 2:30 PM 2:30 PM Cinema Cop City/ Chill Pillars Good To Die Records Presents: 3:00 PM 3:00 PM MANcub Betrayers Lowell Monogamy Party Special Guest The Moon Repossessors 3:30 PM 3:30 PM Outer Minds Sloth Records In-Store Sessions 4:00 PM 4:00 PM Whitey The Slabs Mac DeMarco Deadkill Ghostkeeper Biblical TBA Peace Houston 4:30 PM 4:30 PM Circles

5:00 PM 5:00 PM The Dodos Rabbits Big Eyes TBA Shearing Pinx (5:15pm) 5:30 PM 5:30 PM Wild Rose Soul Club DJs Obey Convention Presents: 6:00 PM 6:00 PM Matthew A. Gaytheist Wilkinson 6:30 PM 6:30 PM Jamaican The Thermals Queens 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Economics

7:30 PM 7:30 PM Jung People Kris Ellestad

8:00 PM 8:00 PM The Burnettes Rene Hell Akron/Family Black Magic Gretchen (8:15pm) Pyramid 8:30 PM 8:30 PM Javelin Samantha Hosted by John Wesley Savage Smith DJ Lorne B Coleman III 9:00 PM 9:00 PM Running Marble Lion Hannah Ep- DJ Noah York City Le Revelateur Daywalker Zen Mystery Soundtrack Quaker Parents person Fogg Karaoke 9:30 PM 9:30 PM Burnt Ones We Are The The Jesus And Brazilian Money City Mary Chain 10:00 PM 10:00 PM Cop City/ TBA Rabbits The Soft Option Johnny UN Kim Taylor White Women The Noble Thiefs The Bicycles Chill Pillars de Courcy & The Death 10:30 PM 10:30 PM The Beets Rangers Mount Eerie The Mants

11:00 PM 11:00 PM Heidi Vapid Fist City UBT Mac DeMarco Boogie Jim Bryson B-Lines MANCub Dent May Alexander Howser 11:30 PM 11:30 PM The Blind Shake Cowpuncher

12:00 AM 12:00 AM Warm Soda Scrapbooker Cousins Bitter Pricks Divine Fits Ryan Trigger Effect The Pack AD Hemsworth 12:30 AM 12:30 AM Thee Oh Sees

1:00 AM 1:00 AM Monogamy Metz The Thermals Party 1:30 AM 1:30 AM

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1 #1 Royal Canadian Legion (two floors) • 116 7 Ave SE 2 Alberta Printmakers’ Society • 2010F 11 St SE 3 Alexandra Centre • 922 9 Ave SE SUNDAY 4 Avalanche! • 1235 Macleod Trail SE 5 Bamboo • 1201 1 St SW Globe Haultain Milk Tiger 1st Street Bamboo Broken City Cinema Park Lounge Republik 6 Broken City (and patio) • 613 11 Ave SW 11:00 AM 1st Street Art PARKSale 7 Central Memorial Library • 1221 2 St SW 11:30 AM Walk 8 Commonwealth (two floors) • 731 10 Ave SW 12:00 PM Bamboo 9 Dicken’s Pub • 1000 9 Ave SW 12:30 PM Craft Sale 10 East Village Experience Center • 553 Riverfront Ave SE 1:00 PM 11 East Village Riverwalk Plaza • 618 Confluence Way SE

1:30 PM 12 Fairmont Palliser (and Crystal Ballroom) • 133 9 Ave SW • 219 8 Ave SW 2:00 PM 13 Flames Central Panache Pres- ents: Sled Island 14 Glenbow Museum - ConocoPhillips Theatre • 130 9 Ave SE 2:30 PM 2013 Wrap-Up Pig Roast 15 Globe Cinema • 617 8 Ave SW 3:00 PM Wild Rose 16 The Golden Age Club • 610 8 Ave SE 3:30 PM Soul Club DJs North Country 17 Haultain Park • 225 13 Ave SW 4:00 PM Cinema International 18 HiFi Club, The • 219 10 Ave SW 4:30 PM Shorts 19 Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmer’s Market • 1320 5 Ave NW 5:00 PM 20 Ironwood Stage & Grill • 1229 9 Ave SE Circles 5:30 PM 21 Local 510 (and parking lot) • 510 17 Ave SW

6:00 PM 22 Milk Tiger Lounge • 1410 4 St SW I Used To Be Outer Minds 23 MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary) • 104-800 Macleod Trail SE 6:30 PM Darker 24 National Music Centre • 134 11 Ave SE 7:00 PM Special Guests 25 New Black • 200-919 9 Ave SE 7:30 PM 26 Olympic Plaza • 228 8 Ave SE 8:00 PM The Blind 27 The Palomino • 109 7 Ave SW 8:30 PM Shake 28 Republik • 219 17 Ave SW After Party: I 9:00 PM Used To Be 29 The Ship & Anchor • 534 17 Ave SW Sled Island Darker Thee Oh Sees 9:30 PM Wrap-Up 30 Simmons Building • 618 Confluence Way SE Karaoke w/ 10:00 PM Beau & PJ 31 Sled Island Contemporary Art Salon • 1412 1 St SW 32 Sloth Records • 736b 17 Ave SW 10:30 PM 33 Texas Lounge (enter from the alley) • 308 B 17 Ave SW 11:00 PM 34 Tubby Dog • 1022 17 Ave SW 11:30 PM 35 Understudy • 1312 1 St SW 12:00 AM 36 Vertigo Theatre • 115 9 Ave SE 12:30 AM 37 Victoria Park Parklet • 1 St SW near 13 Ave 1:00 AM 38 Wine-Ohs • 811 1 St SW 1:30 AM

2:00 AM Art and Film Venues • All Ages Venues Bike Racks Available 45 joel plaskett emergency Halifax, NS FRI 12AM: FLAMES CENTRAL The Polaris Music Prize-nominated Joel Plaskett is, simply, one of Canada’s best, most prolific and enduring songwriters. Ever since he first stepped on stage with Thrush Hermit in 1992, he’s demonstrated an uncanny ability to reach out to audiences and readily connect with some of our innermost desires. Indeed, when he made a name for himself as a solo artist, he simultaneously came into his own potential (as perhaps best seen on 2003’s Truthfully, Truthfully) and established himself as a cornerstone of the nation’s indie rock scene. Best of all, he’s not afraid to be himself and have a blast while performing. With a discography overflowing with perfectly penned rock n’ roll Cana- diana and a stage presence and charisma that we might be so bold as to say calls to mind the great Jonathan Richman, it’s no wonder that Plaskett has perimental turns in Neuseiland to his current stint as iconic, proudly Canadian found a way to skillfully transform across his expansive musical career, from troubadour. Joel Plaskett is one of our nation’s finest musical treasures. his Sloan-via-Led Zeppelin channeling days in Thrush Hermit to his more ex- joelplaskett.com sophisticated, romantic pop is both seductive and your thoughts but all you can think of is, “What the danceable, and the songs are intelligent and convinc- hell just happened?” Yeah, you’re at an Invasives JAVELIN ingly detailed. Dude is a class act. doughoyer.com show. They’ve mastered the art of the taut punk rock New York, NY song, complete with start-stops and wild harmonies THU 9PM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS HUMANS just bustin’ out of every corner. They’re sure to have FRI 12AM: TUBBY DOG the dance floor doing that weird thing where it feels SAT 8:30PM: THE ALEXANDRA CENTRE Vancouver, BC Sonic magicians Javelin cut samples like you only WED 1AM: COMMONWEALTH like you’re on a suspension bridge and everyone freaks out. invasives.ca wish you could. Nothing ever sounds the same for The name Humans is far from accidental. While the long with this duo and their songs comprise an duo uses electronic components in their perfor- enticing and unpredictable mix of live instruments, mance, they compliment their sound with live vocals ITAL chopped vocals and vinyl loops. Call it heart music and instruments, creating an atmosphere that tran- Washington, DC for your head. dollarbinsofthefuture.com scends the divide between performer and audience WED 12:30AM: BAMBOO often felt in electronic music. dashumans.com THU 11PM: THE HIFI CLUB Ex-Black Eyes member Daniel Martin-McCormick JERUSALEM IN MY HEART Montreal, QC ICEBERG FERG started making house music a few years back and has been deconstructing the genre ever since. Ital THU 12:30AM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE Victoria, BC forces infectious hooks out of unrecognizable sonic FRI 10PM: VERTIGO THEATRE WED 9:30PM: WINE-OHS palettes before destroying everything and building it Based out of Montreal, Jerusalem in my Heart is a THU 1:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT up again. myspace.com/itallive multimedia art-collective on Constellation Records. Canadian blues and folk with just a dash of jazz, The group’s performances consist of 16mm film Iceberg Ferg’s reinvention of the singer-songwriter pastiches, postmodern light shows and traditional genre puts a morbid/funny spin on acoustic-guitar- JAMAICAN QUEENS Arabic music interwoven with dissonant electronic driven solo recordings. Iceberg Ferg’s songs are every Detroit, MI productions. Their unique performances are emo- bit as clever as they are humble. THU 4:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT tional experiences unlike anything else in contempo- icebergferg.bandcamp.com FRI 10PM: THE HIFI CLUB rary music. jerusaleminmyheart.com SAT 6:30PM: THE ALEXANDRA CENTRE IF I LOOK STRONG; YOU LOOK Off-funk, near-rap, adored vice, shaky hands, bloody JESSICA JALBERT faces… The Jamaican Queens have attitude and Edmonton, AB STRONG style and they have the chops to back it up. Their WED 11:30PM: WINE-OHS Calgary, AB simplified approach to music production provides a THU 6PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS WED 7:30PM: NEW BLACK textured base for boy-girl vocals and honest lyrics It’s not hard to imagine Jessica Jalbert leading a Math rock can be dizzying at the best of times, but If and the band’s “anything goes” approach sees them marching band down Highway #2 like the siren I Look Strong; You Look Strong pack enough off-kilter layering finger-picked guitars over glitch drums and song of a hazy daydream. The crashing drums and time changes, spastic, jazzy riffs and bass lines that chaotic synthesizers. melancholy vocals of Jalbert’s pop landscapes make trip over themselves as they cascade down the neck jamaicanqueens.com to positively disorient anyone in earshot. Don’t try to a return trip to the festival. make sense of it unless you have a Ph.D. in applied jessicajalbert.bandcamp.com mathematics — just hold on and enjoy the ride. EVY JANE ifilookstrongyoulookstrong.bandcamp.com Vancouver, BC JOHNNY DE COURCY AND THE THU 1AM: BAMBOO Existing in a serous dimension, Evy Jane’s sensual DEATH RANGERS INVASIVES take on electronica R&B is pure decadence. Indulge Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC in Evelyn Mason’s lustful, lulling croons, which SAT 10PM: FLAMES CENTRAL FRI 4PM: BROKEN CITY remain poised above a saturate of opulent and Shake your death rattle and bring the man some Have you ever woken up from a crazy, hazy, frantic luxurious sonics that hypnotize and mesmerize. drugs. The ex-Black Wizard guitarist has traded in dream, reached for a glass of water, trying to collect evyjane.com his fiery licks for more soulful, focused shredding, 46 elevating mid-tempo waltzes into searing burners SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS that will make you swoon with pleasure. Rock and roll has never been so delicious. johnnydecourcy.bandcamp.com

THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION New York, NY THU 12AM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS The scuzzy, punk-fueld post-modern rock n’ roll of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is delivered via a live show so revelatory that it completely obliterates any ques- tions pertaining to musical sincerity or appropriation. This is showmanship, musicianship and rock n’ roll leadership when it is needed most; a see it to believe it show if ever there was one. thejonspencerbluesexplosion.com JULY TALK Toronto, ON THU 10PM: THE NO.1 LEGION FRI 1AM: BROKEN CITY Imagine Tom Waits and Amy Millan shouting whiskey- soaked lullabies while backed by the members of Crazy Horse. Striking a frenzied balance between Americana and dance-floor-filling indie-rock, July Talk ‘s Beauty and the Beast aesthetic burns a little going down, but is sure to warm your belly and have you coming back for more. whitegirlrecords.com/july-talk JUNG PEOPLE Calgary, AB SAT 7:30PM: THE ALEXANDRA CENTRE Combining post-rock structure with prog-metal musicianship and a benevolent social philosophy, Jung People’s music transcends the barriers of instrumental music and forges a deeper connection to the listener than lyrics ever could. Moving between pastoral and oppressive, Jung People are here to tell stories. jungpeople.bandcamp.com

CAROLINE KEATING Montreal, QC THU 7PM: WINE-OHS Homespun piano-pop ballads are laced together with delicate vocals that still manage to soar and wander about. Minimalist in arrangement, Keating’s songs and performances echo with an intimacy often lost in today’s pop music. carolinekeating.net

KEN MODE Winnipeg, MB FRI 12:30AM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR KEN mode’s brand of melodic hardcore seems the perfect fit to have been birthed in a dark basement during one of Winnipeg’s frighteningly vicious winters. Not only is it urgent, visceral and just downright nasty, it also won them accolades both north and south of the border and a JUNO to boot! Their latest full length, Entrench, has the band poised for world domination, after which they 47 hollerado Ottawa, ON WED 12AM: REPUBLIK If there’s one thing that indie rock can be said to sometimes lack — in par- ticular Canadian indie rock — is an aura surrounding individual bands. That is, most acts tend to avoid generating their own mythology in favour of a more direct and honest facade. Shunning the trappings of overly-stylized rock and roll, indie rock often prefers to align itself with the anti-hero. Thus, one of the most compelling aspects of Hollerado is indeed the willing- ness with which they have created their own myth. From the release of Record in a Bag, which literally came in a bag, to their stringent DIY approach to touring, to their infamous obsession with throwing nacho parties at the venue before their show, Hollerado have refined their aura into one of a fun-loving band that’s always eager for the next adventure. These indie stars may make pitch-perfect pop music, plain and simple, with all the jangles and sing-along choruses you Hollerado have already made their mark in Canada and abroad, but they’re could ask for, but they’ve also perfected their delivery to such a degree that it’s far from finished, so come see what all the fuss is about – this band is inca- impossible not to emphatically agree with them as their move through their set. pable of disappointing an audience. hollerado.com will mostly likely just set it all ablaze. matchless with aplomb in a genre that often does morph below them. They’ve since moved on to pro- ken-mode.com not see much variance. Every other band ever is seri- ducing their own beats, mashing together rap, trap ously trying their darndest to sound like these cheeky and electronic music for one hell of a live party. They fellers. ketamines.com know how to treat you right, so get down to the club! KETAMINES keysnkrates.com Toronto, ON FRI 8:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB KEYS N KRATES One of the most beloved, reverb-drenched, meta- Toronto, ON KIM TAYLOR galactic gangs that this fine-as-fuck nation has to THU 9PM: EAST VILLAGE Cincinatti, OH offer. The Ketamines perpetuate delightfully quixotic Keys N Krates originally started as an exciting and SAT 10PM: THE IRONWOOD nostalgia via enthralling pop-shop, garagey racket. dynamic live remixing duo, reworking rap and house You’ll be able to see Kim Taylor at Sled Island in two These crackerjacks seem to dauntlessly remain beats on the fly as they watched the dance floor very different ways: playing her smokey and emotion-

48 ally dynamic folk songs and on the silver screen for NICHOLAS KRGOVICH LA LUNA SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS Sled Island Film’s Canadian premiere of I Used To Be Vancouver, BC Calgary, AB Darker. kim-taylor.net FRI 8PM: THE ALEXANDRA CENTRE WED 10:30PM THE SHIP & ANCHOR Whether Nicholas K is playing with with Mount Eerie, Having embarked on a European tour, the members KINGDOM & KELELA writing music for haircare commercials, covering of Calgary legends Brain Fever underwent a profound Los Angeles, CA Frank Ocean with Nite Jewel or something in be- metamorphosis, manifested in the name change to THU 6:45PM: EAST VILLAGE tween, you can bet he’s up to something you couldn’t La Luna. What haven’t changed are their sinceri- Kingdom & Kelela both hail from Los Angeles and see coming. ties: taintless calcification of bellicosely calculated have seen a recent jump in exposure. While Kingdom nicholaskrgovich.com hardcore made porous with the expressiveness has been going steady with his unique blend of both of post-hardcore. LL manage haunting and lofty UK and American bass sounds, a recent fascination KUHRYE-OO suspensions which are, in a matter of a heartbeat, with R’N’B has lead to collaboration with Kelela, a shattered by frenetic and potent paroxysms. New York, NY singer. fadetomind.net lalunaband.bandcamp.com THU 10PM: THE HIFI CLUB Edmonton native Calvin McElroy has toured with KNOTS fellow comrades Born Gold, Grimes and Cadence LAB COAST Calgary, AB Calgary, AB Weapon and in the process has boned up on THU 8:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB FRI 7PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS futuristic takes of R&B and eclectically boogie- Calgary’s Lab Coast writes laid-back songs that Frosty, unsettling folk for those moody December worthy syntheses. Pure, unadulterated good-times sit well with a weary mind, taking full advantage flurries when the entire world falls silent. An impos- are promised if you can get down and jiggy wit’ it, of the aesthetic warmth that cassettes offer while sibly small movement catches your eye as you wist- palskis. soundcloud.com/kuhryeoo tailoring their songs to live performance. Their songs fully stare out the window — Knots scampers in the are accessible and immediate, but not shallow or shadows, hiding in an longing sigh or the clink of KURVI TASCH meaningless. your ice as you drain your drink. There might be hope Montreal, QC labcoast.bandcamp.com in this world, but you don’t really care for it tonight. FRI 12:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT knotss.bandcamp.com Sounding blissful and off-kilter, the members of Kurvi Tasch have known each other since they THE LAD MAGS KOBAN were knee-high to a duck, commingling over an Edmonton, AB Vancouver, BC inclination towards Magic: the Gathering. It wasn’t THU 10:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS WED 9:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS until they moved to Montreal that the boys began The Lad Mags may be relatively new on the Ed- Drawing inspiration from the golden years of gothic to formally delve into their musical tendencies. monton scene, prowling the dive bars on Whyte Ave music (we’re talking 1986, not 300 CE), Koban’s During apartment basement sessions, they have with a snarl and a swagger, but they’re absolutely drum-machine drones recall a time when bands actualized an amiable sound that swings into electrifying. The quintet have wasted no time getting weren’t afraid to experiment with the boundaries garage-based rock, embellished with no-wave and out of the basement jam space and into the clubs on between art and pop music. sludgy nuances. the strength of their other-worldly, bizarro garage- koban.bandcamp.com kurvitasch.bandcamp.com soul transmissions. theladmags.bandcamp.com KRANG KYOTE GIANNA LAUREN Edmonton, AB Calgary, AB Halifax, NS SAT 2PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR WED 9:30PM: NEW BLACK FRI 1PM: LOCAL 510 With space as the ultimate frontier, Krang have Sometimes-instrumental performance rock with a Originally calling Alberta and Ontario home, this strapped in and are ready to explore the furthest melodic base and a dissonant edge, Kyote’s tight Halifax songstress has manufactured a sound that reaches of our imagination. It’s not just bong hits musicianship and dynamic live performances have is anything but “just” singer-songwriter. Lush ar- and tabs of acid, though: Krang stretch their heavy earned them a large fanbase across Canada. Let rangements and restrained vocals create a haunting psychedelia through expanses of desert rock, brood- them show you how it’s done in the city they call ambience. ing blues and pounding stoner riffs. Blast off! home. giannalauren.bandcamp.com krangalang.bandcamp.com wererecords.bandcamp.com

49 iceage Copenhagen, DK WED 1AM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS By far one of the most anticipated acts of this year’s Sled, Iceage is sheer poetry in archaic, nihilistic punk form. Be prepared for these Danes to lacerate you in their lament, shroud you in obsidian blackness, infinite as midnight itself. You’re going to need about a hundred cold showers after the sanguinary anarchy that’s sure to transpire. In a seemingly short time, Iceage have emerged as one of the world’s foremost mature punks, constantly sounding older and more developed than their short career thus far might suggest. Indeed, when they released their sophomore album earlier this year, the excellent and nihilistically self-aware You’re Nothing, they all but perfected their approach, channeling punk’s youth- ful, brash energy into a tightly controlled, yet somehow impossibly chaotic, assault. The more you let their inky moodiness envelope you, the more you give lessly figured out. There’s no mid-twenties life crisis because none of that shit into, rather than fight, the Sonic Youth-inspired noisy wilderness in which they really matters when you’re on top of your game. All that matters is the here- live and breathe, the sooner you’ll realize that these guys have it all effort- and-now — bliss is momentary, anyhow. iceagecopenhagen.blogspot.ca

jaunty, sprightly collection. One of the most unique your pretty picnics and invading them pantaloons, LATCHO DROM acts to grace Sled this year! bulleting you at rapid-fire speeds their powerhouse Edmonton, AB lesmentettes.bandcamp.com garage rock ‘n’ roll. More fun than a barrel of mon- WED 8:30PM: NEW BLACK keys are men in suits and ant masks that are sure to What is it about watching someone scream? Latcho LOWELL have you jitterbugging all over the place lickety split. Drom’s crunchy pop punk recalls all the best memories themants.bandcamp.com of melodic emotional hardcore: the crunchy power Toronto, ON chords and thrashed vocal chords, bouncy drums and THU 7:30PM COMMONWEALTH broken bottles. SAT 3PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA MARBLE LION latchodrom.bandcamp.com Falling in the lines of power-pop queens like Lykke Li Montreal, QC and Florence & the Machine, Toronto’s Lowell creates SAT 9PM: THE HIFI CLUB resounding vocals of existential anguish. Literally Based in Montreal, Marble Lion makes electronic THE LBJS translated to “wolf cub,” Lowell’s howls are sure to music inspired by the crescendos and diminuendos Calgary, AB echo deep into the subconscious. lowellsongs.com of post-rock. Marble Lion puts forth an enticing mix- THU 10PM: BROKEN CITY ture of live instruments, treated samples and deep Three amigos don their leather jackets, leave the LUCID 44 productions and the band takes every opportunity to bass at home and light the stage on fire. They’re new cross genre lines. marblelion.bandcamp.com kids on the block in town, but it’s easy to yearn after Calgary, AB their scrappy rock and roll, flailing solos and driving SATURDAY 12:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT organ riffs. Vice presidential, indeed. Self-described as “sad bastard death folk,” METZ facebook.com/theLBJs Calgary’s Lucid 44 has been tucked away quietly Toronto, ON making the kind of moody, layered slow-burners FRI 1AM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS that just seem to burrow their way deep down inside SAT 1AM: BROKEN CITY LE REVELATEUR the listener and just radiate, like the embers at the The heavily buzzed Toronto post-hardcore power trio Montreal, QC tail end of a campfire. The brainchild of Leslie Mark is one of the most eagerly requested bands since FRI 8PM: VERTIGO THEATRE Overland, Lucid 44’s quiet tension hammers home Sled Island 2012. Equal parts Jesus Lizard, Hot Sat 9pm: National Music Centre the notion that while maybe it won’t all be okay, Snakes and Nation of Ulysses, Metz produce heady Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Fly Pan Am that’s sometimes alright. sludge-punk that proves its relevance, not through contributor Roger Tellier-Craig’s latest project turns music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Lucid-44 tired, anthemic call to arms lyrics, but through analog electronica on its head, featuring dense, undeniably vital and visceral sonic blasts. Guar- careful compositions and an obsession with detailed MANCUB anteed to be one of the most talked about shows of soundscape. Video artist Sabrina Ratté adds Calgary, AB Sled Island 2013. compelling visuals to the performance, itself an SAT 3PM: BROKEN CITY metz.bandcamp.com exploration of the combination of electronic image SAT 11PM: REPUBLIK and sound. le-revelateur.tumblr.com Riff-driven party rock in the heart of Calgary, MANcub takes an anything-goes approach to classic MIESHA & THE SPANKS Calgary, AB LES MENTETTES rock. All of the badass blues influences are there, Buenos Aires, Argentina but MANcub’s raucous songs cover more musical THU 11:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS Is there a harder working musician in town than THU 8PM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS ground than The Animals ever could have. Miesha Louie? She’s driven her duo across Canada Effervescent and glittery indie pop tinged with mancub.ca spacey electronic sonorities, further propped up countless times and spends almost as much time by a small orchestra of brass, wind and stringed in the studio recording three-minute, pitch-perfect instruments alike, the premise of Les Mentettes is THE MANTS garage-soul howlers as she does on stage, cranking Victoria, BC truly diversified to say the least. Each sundry song out libidinous tunes for her devoted wolf pack. Aw- SAT 10:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS rests dreamily and solely, with the peppy and zealous wooooooo! Part man, part insect, you can find them crashing spirit of the Argentine band binding them to form a mandthespanks.com 50 SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS the jesus and mary chain Glasgow, SCT SAT 9:30PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA Not quite two decades after the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat, The Jesus and Mary Chain unleashed their debut single, “Upside Down,” which took the Underground’s blanket squall of forward-thinking white noise and anchored it in Phil Spector’s grandiose melodies, bridging the gap between bubblegum and poison. The alternative world would never be the same and, seemingly overnight, the landscape was transformed into a confrontational, bleeding riot wrapped in electric, barbed ribbons of guitar feedback. Led by brothers William and Jim Reid, JAMC have been subverting pop conventions ever since, either on celebrated records, like 1985’s Psychocandy, or in volatile live performances that tore through the haze of substance abuse to transcend the spectacle of rock and roll. The Jesus And Mary Chain is, quite simply, a long-time festival dream come true. The legendary Glasgow-based proto-shoegazers’ noisy and dense Girls, The Walkmen) that their 2013 appearance feels more like a beautiful feedback-laden pop has had such a meaningful and readily admitted impact inevitability than a complete shock. Simply put, we couldn’t be prouder to see on so many past Sled Island alumni (Raveonettes, Dinosaur Jr., Dum Dum them join the Sled Island line-up this year. thejesusandmarychain.co.uk

ers are bringing their joyous, effects-laden guitar MARK MILLS THE MOAS rock to Calgary once again and their live show is Calgary, AB Saskatoon, SK guaranteed to please. THU 5PM: EAST VILLAGE SAT 2PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS mmyth.bandcamp.com Rock and roll has always been a surefire way to Shoegaze and Saskatoon are two beautiful things start a party, but when you combine these explosive that start with S. The Moas are repping both. More elements with the sweat and sultry seduction of billowy guitar wafts than feedback explosives but MOON ‘80s electro-pop, the party is evolves into a total with plenty of cosmic roar. Hazy days of summer Halifax, NS celebration of the transformative properties of the are ahead. SAT 3PM: TUBBY DOG body. At the head of the party, Mark Mills stands themoas.bandcamp.com Halifax’s Moon blends the repetitive grooves of krautrock vigorous and proud, chanting his holistic rituals for with the tipsy wistfulness of lo-fi pop, resulting in a new dawn. unique and unforgettable psychedelia. Moon masterfully markmillsmusic.ca MONOGAMY PARTY balances tranquility and consequence. Seattle, WA muun.bandcamp.com SAT 3PM: THE PALOMINO MISE EN SCENE SAT 1AM: BAMBOO Winnipeg, MB Maniacal noise-rock executed with conviction, a trio THE NANCEES WED 12:30AM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS a punks construct/destruct with reckless abandon Calgary, AB Through dense layers of welcoming reverb, Win- and reverberate like a punch to the face. FRI 1:45PM: BROKEN CITY nipeg’s Mise en Scene carve out their own niche. monogamyparty.bandcamp.com The Nancees love girls so much that they named Stefanie Blondal Johnson (guitar/vocals) and Jodi their band after a bunch of them. You can even find Dunlop’s (drums) influences may seem disparate all sorts of girls in their songs! But let’s get down to at first, with nods towards ‘60s pop, alt country MONOMYTH the nitty gritty. It’s straight as an arrow with these Halifax, NS and early punk all present in the same song, but dapper dreamboats; their ‘60s saturated garage rock FRI 4PM: LOCAL 510 they hold it down with their impeccable vision and is just fucking peachy keen. We dare you not to fall in Monomyth’s lauded shoegaze has graced Sled undeniable charisma. love, if not whole-heartedly. Island before, to much applause. The Halifax rock- miseenscenemusic.com reverbnation.com/thenancees

51 NEEDS THE NIGHT MARCHERS Oh my stars, is there a frontman as intimately charming and magnetic as The Noble Thiefs’ Vancouver, BC San Diego, CA Myron Dean? The man knows exactly how to work a FRI 10PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS FRI 1AM: Dickens crowd, an enigmatic Cheshire grin creeping across Oh, to be young in the ‘90s once more! There was an Night Marchers are made up of 3/4 of arguably Sled his youthful face as he winks at the ladies and incredible gravitas surrounding being down when Island 2012’s most talked about band, Hot Snakes. hypnotizes the men. This is rock and roll with soul you were 16 in 1996, as if you could project your Wait, you actually need to hear more? How about that picks up right where Jerry Lee Lewis and Little own preoccupations on the larger social fabric and adding Tom Kitsos of Montreal chaotic punk rockers Richard left off. thenoblethiefs.com see yourself reflected right back. Vancouver’s NEEDS CPC Gangbangs to the mix? How about finding Mr. channel that lost youth through a frenzy of explosive John “Speedo” Reis blending the the most crushing hardcore and emotive breakdowns. Feel the pain. and intricate parts of Hot Snakes with the sheer fun NORTHCOTE needsvancouver.bandcamp.com of Rocket From The Crypt and the 70s pop of Sul- Victoria, BC tans? Wait...you’re right. You DO need to hear more. THU 9PM: THE IRONWOOD NERDX Go see ‘em this June! Matthew Goud’s years of travelling influenced his https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Night- Calgary, AB work in Northcote, a collection of songs dedicated to Marchers/55636289510 FRI 9PM: THE HIFI CLUB wandering souls the world over. Goud’s raspy voice A one-time staple of Calgary’s Carpenter’s Union Hall is the perfect match for these folk rock songs and all ages scene, NerdX gained a reputation for melt- NO RIVER anyone who has ever fallen in love with the road will ing the minds of any and all with his near-absurdist Calgary, AB find kinship with Goud’s music. and inspired rap delivery. When the Hall stopped THU 8PM: WINE-OHS northcotemusic.com hosting shows, he went into hiding. Thankfully, Sled If there has ever been a band that is tailor-made Island is proud to announce that he’s back and for playing lonely saloons on moonlight prairies, it’s THE NYMPHETS armed with a mega buster cannon full of deeply No River. Their weeping country gently works away Montreal, QC personal and head scratching rhymes. at your frayed nerves, exposing laments and regrets WED 11:30PM: NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS socrateswebdesign.com/nerdx with uncanny ease. Feel free to cry into your whiskey: FRI 12:30PM: COMMONWEALTH the bartender is all ears and No River will keep play- Certified minimalist punkers, the duo’s songs whip NEW FRIENDS ing until there’s nothing left to feel except the slow themselves at your face in under two, hi-octane Calgary, AB burn of the booze. noriver.com minutes a piece, in true punk fashion. Extracting WED 6:30PM: COMMONWEALTH from the ariose tendencies of the late ‘70s Brits and New Friends brings together dissonant noise, ef- NO SINNER relentless in demeanour, The Nymphets are simply fortless, long-winded guitar melodies, hard hitting Vancouver, BC electric and endless. thenymphets.com drums and stunningly beautiful vocals. The songs WED 1AM: THE PALOMINO performed by this band were crafted over a period No Sinner were one of the great sleeper hits of Sled OBEY THE CROOKS of about 10 years in the bedroom of local hearthrob Island 2012. Though only half the band was able Calgary, AB Evan Van Reekum (Fist City), and are now being to make the trek out to Calgary, magnetic front- THU 9PM: NEW BLACK supplemented by Calgary dreamboat Ryan Von Ha- woman Colleen Rennison and virtuoso guitarist Eric They may be newcomers in Calgary’s hip-hop scene, gen - and local mega-ultra babe Kaelen Ohm (Gold). Campbell, they still floored Commonwealth’s lucky but Obey the Crooks have proven themselves to be attendees. Rennison’s golden pipes and powerful talented performers and exacting producers. Com- NIGHT COMMITTEE presence led the sultry, sweaty, bluesy charge and bining unique beats with smooth rhymes, Obey the Calgary, AB entranced everyone in earshot. You’re going to be Crooks make everything they do look easy. FRI 10PM: Dickens considerably less innocent after seeing them live. obeythecrooks.bandcamp.com Somehow Andrew Wedderburn, Joel Nye and Lorrie nosinner.bandcamp.com Matheson have taken this band through a ringer of Western and post-punk aesthetics and created THE NOBLE THIEFS OLD AND WEIRD Halifax, NS something totally unique. After showing off their Winnipeg, MB FRI 2:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT stuff to festival goers last year, you can expect the THU 9PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS Slacker-punk and girl-pop advance amicably in a crowd to be ready and eager for their return. SAT 10PM: REPUBLIK nightcommittee.com brilliant burst of catchy chord progressions and dis-

52 SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS OFF! Los Angeles, CA THU 1AM: COMMONWEALTH To all those who think that punk is a young man’s game, think again. Formed in 2009, almost three decades after iconic frontman Keith Morris yelped and contorted at the head of Circle Jerks and Black Flag, OFF! picks up exactly where ‘80s Hermosa Beach hardcore left off, razor blades sharper still, if possible, after all these years. This isn’t simply some nostalgic rehash of hardcore’s youthful, golden era, however. OFF! differentiate themselves from mere imitators by sheer force of will, as if their skin-shredding blasts of fury can’t be contained by wax or stage alone, leaping down your throat in an effort to drown themselves in your bile. Their 2010 debut, four EPs each containing four songs, none of which come close to cracking the two-minute mark, ce- Circle Jerks, Redd Kross), guitarist Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), bass- mented them as the new champions of West Coast hardcore, a veritable ist Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and drummer Mario Rubalcaba (Hot supergroup. Morris is joined by guitarist Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Snakes, Rocket from the Crypt). offofficial.com affected drums, estranged elegies for folks fatigued and destroying it. In any case, Old Man Markley unite with grand gestures and hardened hearts. Come the disparate genres in a shotgun wedding deep in OUGHT Montreal, QC listen to delightful pop songs about not caring very the Appalachian hills. The moonshine is upstairs, FRI 9PM: TUBBY DOG much. oldandweird.bandcamp.com help yourself. Ought’s sour slowcore is more fleshed out and experi- oldmanmarkley.com mental than many of their contemporaries and their OLD MAN MARKLEY dedication to melancholy tales and abstract sonics Los Angeles, CA OPEN RELATIONSHIP puts them even further ahead of the crowd. THU 1AM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR Victoria, BC ought.bandcamp.com Perhaps it’s the way the fiddle scurries around THU 12AM: BROKEN CITY the hurried beat, making the whiskey drain faster. Keep it simple, keep it messy and keep it weird. All- Perhaps it’s the ebullient, raucous drive inherent in girl four-piece are the definition of DIY punk. OUTER MINDS both punk and bluegrass. Perhaps it’s the band’s openrelationship.bandcamp.com Chicago, IL insistence on simultaneously recognizing tradition FRI 9:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS

53 SAT 3:30PM: LOCAL 510 PARKING LOT PEACE and explosive live instrumentation abound. pickapiper.bandcamp.com SUN 6PM: REPUBLIK Vancouver, BC It’s like you’ve been time-warped to when you WED 12AM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS could buy a whole bottle of ketchup for 22 cents. Sat 4pm: Tubby Dog ‘60s-inspired garage-psych texturized in winsome POWDER BLUE Alongside their co-conspirators in Japandroids and glockenspiel and constant, chorused vocalizations Saskatoon, SK White Lung, Peace are often referenced when making make for some radical, easygoing listening that’s FRI 4PM: TUBBY DOG a case for strong Vancouver punk. In the wake of their sure to dizzy you in nostalgia, whether for real or in Bringing together friends from a variety of different- latest release, and debut on Suicide Squeeze, The reverie. outerminds.bandcamp.com sounding Saskatoon bands, Powder Blue is a melting World Is Too Much With Us, it’s not hard to see why: pot of sorts, distilling it all into the “soundtrack of latent drama bursts forth from the darkest, most your nightmares.” There’s nothing really that fright- OUTLAWS OF RAVENHURST absurd, corners of the record with post-punk angular- ening about Powder Blue, but their eerie, hypnotic Calgary, AB ity before bashing you over the head with their scuzzy, psych-rock will cause a frisson of the unexpected to SAT 1PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR hypnotic style. peacevancouver.bandcamp.com chill your psyche. powder-blue.ca Not many bands are inventing their own lore these days, but Calgary’s prog-metal warlocks are in the middle of a story arc. The Outlaws’ music shifts from PHILOCERAPTOR QUAKER PARENTS finger-picked acoustic instrumentals to surprisingly Vancouver, BC Halifax, NS catchy off-Celtic folk to heavy, precise palm-muted SAT 1PM: BROKEN CITY SAT 9PM: TUBBY DOG riffs; every piece of their concept-driven songs works Three guys, two fuzzed out guitars and a set of Garages and catchy rock music go together well, towards the end of the story. drums. Up-tempo, time-change heavy, garage-rock even in Halifax. Quaker Parents are like rad distillers outlaws.bandcamp.com dissonance that sits restlessly somewhere between that take the cool parts out of the past and mix it the No Age and Japandroids. philoceraptor.com with the cool parts of the present. These Canadian rockers are exemplars of good taste and better par- PAPER BEAT SCISSORS PICK A PIPER ties. quakerparents.bandcamp.com Halifax, NS Toronto, ON FRI 2PM: LOCAL 510 FRI 12:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS The brainchild of one very determined musician RABBITS A Canadian indie supergroup writing subdued named Tim, Paper Beat Scissors’ live show is an Portland, OR electro-pop? Yes, please. Pick a Piper’s cohesive amazingly personal experience. Tim Crabtree’s solo SAT 5PM: THE PALOMINO band dynamic is far more natural and cohesive than guitar and careful loops make the perfect companion SAT 10PM: BROKEN CITY one might expect, and the members have found an for his engaging brogue. Fans of AmRep dirt rock revival, rejoice, Portland’s incredible common ground. Careful programming paperbeatscissors.com sonic bludgeoners are coming for thee! Like being

54 strapped down to a stainless steel table with dirty X’s Micah Stone promises another blistering set of cious rapture. therepossessors.bandcamp.com SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS leather straps while a slowly lowering, giant pen- rhymes the kind of which has had hands in the air dulum scythes above you, Rabbits will feast on your at venues all around Cowtown. Stone’s stream-of- entrails and use them to vomit up their next noisy, consciousness lyricism allows him to weave his ROAMING STORMS sludgy assault. rabbits.bandcamp.com storytelling into and all around your brain, all while Calgary, AB the beats get your hands clapping and feet moving. THU 10:30PM: REPUBLIK RALEIGH Calling Rap X anything less than eloquent would be Bil Hetherington was doing some field recordings in a disservice. Dude’s got a way with words. some remote area outside of Calgary when a storm Calgary, AB soundcloud.com/rap-x rolled in. It was then that he captured the holy grail WED 12AM: BROKEN CITY for the small, but fervent, community of storm chas- Fans of Raleigh might cite placid boy-and-girl vocals ers: the lightning echo death. Like dark, grey storm as the band’s best feature, but Raleigh’s music also RENE HELL clouds rolling in over the Rockies, the Roaming contains fascinating guitar-cello interactions, flaw- Los Angeles, CA Storms’ four-on-the-floor rock and roll envelopes less drums, deliberate time changes and unexpected THU 9PM: THE HIFI CLUB everything in its path. shifts from flowing legato verses to groovy staccato FRI 7PM: VERTIGO THEATRE roamingstorms.bandcamp.com bridges. This band doesn’t take the term “prog-folk” SAT 8PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE lightly. raleigh-sound.com Avant-garde apposition of classical piano and RUNNING unrecognizable electronica with an emphasis on Chicago, IL underground distribution methods, Rene Hell’s rare IVAN RANKIC THU 11:30PM: COMMONWEALTH DOWNSTAIRS compositions betray a careful understanding of Calgary, Ab FRI 6:30PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE musical interplay. renehell.bandcamp.com THU 4PM: EAST VILLAGE SAT 9PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS Ivan Rankic is a staple in Calgary’s electronic music Lo-lo-lo-fi lullabies about bad times. Running is scene. Resident of the Hifi Club and Commonwealth THE REPOSSESSORS probably your new favourite band, but I think they Bar and Stage, even helping to helm Sled Island Vancouver, BC might not exist. Probably their tape is just lots of 2012’s mixtape, you know you’re in for a good time SAT 3PM: THE SHIP & ANCHOR EVP (ghosts talking to tape recorders), just dead with this one. soundcloud.com/hej-zeus The combative energy of The Repossessors has such punks playing fast songs forever. an encroaching sense of immediacy that peeling running9586443.tripod.com/mainpage01 eyes and ears away just simply isn’t done. The Van- RAP X couverite twosome of C.J. Brabant and Kyle Valade Calgary, AB SABO FORTE grab you and strap you onto a barreling fugitive THU 7PM: NEW BLACK Calgary, AB train. All you can do is hope that it goes off the rails Making his triumphant return to Sled Island, Rap FRI 11PM: THE HIFI CLUB and over a cliff, free-falling you into explosive, fero-

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Standing strong against the moombahton and trap obsessively chronicle the minutae of their existences, SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS waves that seem to be inundating Calgary, Sabo except for the fact that they’re both bizarrely likely to Forte remains steadfast in his devotion to smooth, turn around and stab you in the throat with whatever laid back hip hop. He’s been around since the mid- it is they’re holding at the time. Don’t let your guard ’90s, rapping and collaborating in groups like Blist down. scrapbooker.bandcamp.com Prime Watson and Hookline. Known for his precise lyrical stylings, Forte sharpens his rapier tongue with THE SEAHAGS each new release. Saskatoon, SK soundcloud.com/sabo-forte FRI 5PM: TUBBY DOG Six blue-collar gals from Saskatoon create a gran- SABOTA diose sound derived from a deep pool of folk, gospel Vancouver, BC and even grunge roots. Expect the banjo, mandolin THU 5:30PM: EAST VILLAGE and fiddle-led shanties to keep you on your toes for Yet another emerging electronic act out of Vancouver, the entire night. seahags.ca Sabota is comprised of Max Ulis and Robbie Slade (of Humans). If you were at last year’s East Village Block Party (or just generally have ears), you know SEAHORSE Calgary, AB these two acts deliver. Somehow finding time to SAT 2PM: LOCAL 510 cut another strain of chilled but engrossing tracks, Wistful shoe-gazers pour a nostalgic sheen over Sabota is one you’ll be hearing about for some time post-punk and baroque aesthetics. This is the sound to come. https://soundcloud.com/sabota of DIY experimentation colliding with shards of unabashed twee-pop. JOHN K. SAMSON seahorsetheband.bandcamp.com Winnipeg, MB THU 11PM: THE IRONWOOD FRI 11PM: FLAMES CENTRAL SEIZURE SALAD You might not recognize the name at first, but the Calgary, AB voice is instantly identifiable. The long-time front- FRI 6PM: NEW BLACK man of Canada’s indie superheroes, the Weaker- Seizure Salad have been a relatively quiet duo thans, uses his charming lyrics to create images throughout the years, timing their cathartic super- of the people and places across Canada’s roaming nova releases with deliberate patience in order to countryside, singing songs that resonate years later. maximize their destructive potential. When the dam johnksamson.com bursts, though, it’s hard to believe the enormity of the noisy waves and expansive/destructive psych punk that crash down on you. SANCTUMS seizuresalad.tumblr.com/ Calgary, AB WED 10:30PM: BAMBOO Phantom ambiency poised upon spectral, aerial SHARING surrealism, the ethereal realizations of Dan Solo Montreal, QC and Evangelos Typist are profoundly aesthetic. THU 9:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Sounding diffused and suspended, their downtempo Two-piece art-rock outfit take shoe-gaze and ferments within you, pleasure for a kind of quiescent disintegrate it into a beautiful mess of sweaty introspection, lulling you into the depths of your own garage and post-rock gaudiness. These newcomers isolate headspace. sanctums.bandcamp.com to the Montreal music scene are destined to surprise festival goers. sharing.bandcamp.com SAVK Calgary, AB SHEARING PINX FRI 8PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Vancouver, BC Stephen A. van Kampen (SAvK) has been charming SAT 5PM: TUBBY DOG audiences in various bands for years now, but with Perhaps Vancouver’s best, most prolific and most his newest act, the Calgary native has his sights experimental noise punk trio, Shearing Pinx have set on taking the folk pop genre to a new level. In long been making the case for free-form expression one breath dark and somber, the next upbeat and unburdened by structure or preconception. With over soaring, SAvK’s sound runs the gamut of emotions 50 releases, and counting, they’re clearly not going in a way that will leave you without a doubt that to be done pushing boundaries any time soon. something special is happening both in your heart shearingpinx.bandcamp.com and your head. avkmusic.com SHOOTING GUNS SCRAPBOOKER Saskatoon, SK Edmonton, AB FRI 12PM: THE PALOMINO SAT 12AM: BAMBOO Hypnotic and measured, this doom metal five-piece Damaging noise rock from our friends up north! They are out to prove why their one of the more heralded have nothing in common with the bored people who acts out of Saskatoon. Instrumental anthems mean- 57

SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS mount eerie Anacortes, WA FRP I 9 M: THE ALEXANDRA CENTRE SAT 10:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB The hardest thing for any artist to do is to step back from a project and consider it finished — or, at least, as finished as it ever can be. When the Microphones released their final album, Mount Eerie, leader Phil Elverum discontinued the use of the Microphones moniker and, utilizing that last album as the transition point, started releasing music as Mount Eerie. The name change hasn’t done anything to staunch Elverum’s highly prolific output, however: since Mount Eerie’s first “official” release on the label he founded for the occasion, P.W. Elverum and Sun Ltd, 2005’s No Flashlight, there’s been a constant stream of experimental, sometimes lo-fi, sometimes pop, sometimes folk, sometimes electronic-tinged material. Elverum knows no bounds in Mount Eerie, each release instead a reflection of his id at the his most unique stint: for the first time, he’ll be backed by his full band, time. And, as if only releasing music wasn’t enough, Elverum has stretched rather than appearing as a solo artist. His live performances have garnered into other media, releasing a 132-page hardcover book of his photography attention for their heightened consciousness and the way they seem to dilate alongside 2007’s Mount Eerie pts 6 & 7. the passage of time. This is sure to be one of the more majestic sets of the This is not Elverum’s first time at Sled Island, though 2013 might mark festival, so get there early! pwelverumandsun.com der and rise through the smoke of dimly-lit caverns scientists locked in a race to see who can colonize now a fan of Slow Learners. of psychedelia. shootingguns.ca Mars first. Stomping, scrappy and downright nasty, slowlearners.bandcamp.com the Slabs are a terrifying curse on our goodness and vitality. There can only be one victor when the witch- SIGHTLINES ing hour calls. SMALLTOWN DJS Vancouver, BC Calgary, AB facebook.com/pages/The-Slabs/166521283489769 SAT 2PM: BROKEN CITY THU 6PM: EAST VILLAGE Modest pop-punk trio throw everything they have Calgary OGs Pete Emes and Mike Grimes have into addicting mini-anthems. So retro it hurts but, SLAM DUNK taken their skills across the globe but have stuck they somehow retain the freshness of prepubescent Victoria, BC by Calgary as a beating heart for nightlife and local armpits. sightlines.bandcamp.com FRI 1PM: THE PALOMINO electronic music. Hosting Hifi’s longest running An absurd Slam Dunk show is a great Slam Dunk night, Hai Karate is just the tip of their CV; we’d fill SISSYS show, both in their books and in the rabid memories volumes with the rest. smalltowndjs.com Calgary, AB of their audiences. Slam Dunk take punk’s ethos FRI 12:30AM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS for the unexpected, cram it into a small, smelly art SAMANTHA SAVAGE SMITH space and party like they fear nothing on this planet. In Spinal Tap, they bragged about amps that go to Calgary, AB It makes sense that their latest cut is titled Welcome eleven, but Nigel had obviously never seen a Sissys Tue 9:30pm: Commonwealth to Miami: they’re hot, semi-nude and totally fucking show: those things can get pushed to 13 or even 25, SAT 8:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB bonkers down there, too. easy. Darrell Hartsook (guitar/vocals) and Nathan Samantha Savage Smiths has become an increas- slamdunk.bandcamp.com Navetto (drums) tear through walls of huge fuzz and ingly large part of Calgary’s music scene over the thundering drums to lay down some grimy rock n’ roll last few years. Vintage in voice, she combines this that will make ears ring out in sonic pleasure. Wear SLOW DOWN, MOLASSES unique talent effortlessly with deft song writing and denim, wear plaid and wear a big ol’ grin on your Saskatoon, SK modern rock and pop arrangements. face. sissys.bandcamp.com SAT 1PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS samanthasavagesmith.bandcamp.com The product of old amplifiers and hazy afternoons SKIP JENSEN GROUP in Saskatoon, Slow Down, Molasses’ clever ears THE SOFT OPTION Montreal, QC have changed the band from an excellent fuzzy Calgary, AB THU 12:30AM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS dream-pop group into a vital Canadian folk-rock SAT 10PM: Dickens Prominently known for his involvement in the Scat act. They can still rock just as hard as they did in Insert Joy Division reference here. Now that it’s out of Rag Boosters, Skip Jensen sure is something if not 2008, but the years of touring and recording have the way, if you haven’t already caught Calgary’s the a Canadian cynosure, and so is his solo endeavour. resulted in an unmistakable sonic identity and a Soft Option recently, or during Sled Island last year, Jensen’s old-timey, Old-West influenced vocals are fantastic live show. here’s a primer: enticing post-punk brought to life by backed by tinny sliding guitars and peppered with slowdownmolasses.bandcamp.com franticly engaging frontman, Chris Zajko. clatters and rattles; the whole thing a quintessen- thesoftoption.bandcamp.com tial, chockablock goulash of janglings that will stick SLOW LEARNERS to yer ribs. skipjensen.bandcamp.com Vancouver, BC THU 3PM: LOCAL 510 SONS OF BEARS THE SLABS Grab the nearest Replacements record. Got it? Calgary, AB Calgary, AB Rad. Jam it into a blender, forget to put the lid on, FRI 12AM: BAMBOO SAT 4PM: LOCAL 510 because this is your world and you don’t give a shit Lorrie Matheson starts a rock ‘n’ roll band and every- Calgary’s latest assault on garage punk makes the about any mess you make, and hit “frappe.” Cackle one in Calgary has a new favourite rock ‘n’ roll band. Angry Samoans and the Dwarves seem like rocket maniacally at the disaster. Congratulations, you’re Sons of Bears talk about playing fast and loud and 59 60 SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS superchunk Chapel Hill, NC THU 12:30AM: REPUBLIK In many ways, Superchunk have set the template for American indie rock. The crown jewel of Chapel Hill, North Carolina — which has, on the strength of Superchunk and their contemporaries, become synonymous with alterna- tive/college rock — has been blasting their hearts on on punk rock rave ups and maddeningly solid rockers since they formed in 1989. Chased after major labels as “the next big thing” to emerge on the American landscape in the wake of grunge and Nirvana, Superchunk instead stood by their convic- tions and never let anyone define who they would be. Rather than singing away their creative control to a foreign label, they formed their own, the still highly successful Merge Records. This seemingly innocuous and independent move has allowed them to forge their own path for the past two decades, been able to quite match frontman MacCaughan impassioned vocals and consistently releasing a stream of albums that can only be described as buzzing guitars. All hail one of the great American indie innovators: Superc- Superchunk-esque. Despite a legion of imitators and followers, no one’s ever hunk is still one of the best bands in the game today. superchunk.com they really do, but the band is far more controlled as they are fierce, loud, proud, righteous blasts of than they would have you believe. Matheson’s unmis- truth straight from Edmonton’s warm, beating heart. SUUNS Montreal, QC takable velvety scrawl tempers the Bear’s blistered troysnaterse.bandcamp.com chords while the rhythm section hangs back; the THU 1AM: THE PALOMINO Suuns embraces darkness, layering incoherent gui- city’s most stalwart rockers play the city’s most tar and analog synth grime over heavy drums then stalwart rock and it feels great. SUNSHINE changing on a dime into something sweeter, more lorriematheson.com Vancouver, BC WED 9:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS inviting. Their brand of psychedelia is reverent to its THU 10PM: BAMBOO gods, no doubt, but the band has teeth of its own SPENCER JO & THE RIVER JACKS Fuzzy guitars are woven into warm melodies as and they’re not afraid to innovate (or intimidate). Calgary, AB Vancouver’s Sunshine take garage rock revival and suunsband.tumblr.com FRI 9PM: THE IRONWOOD blissfully let it drift out to sea. SPF jokes aside, A troubadour with a restless heart in the truest expect to be basking in this Vancouver four-piece’s sense of the word, Spencer Jo sings rickety folk bal- PETE SWANSON noise-pop for much longer than the doctor recom- New York City, NY lads that sear with the experience of someone much mends. sunshinesucks.bandcamp.com older. Whether he’s up on stage alone or with his THU 11:30PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE backing band, he weaves powerful stories of growing FRI 9PM: VERTIGO THEATRE up, what it means to take responsibility in life and SURF KITTIES! Influential electronic oddball Pete Swanson has figuring out one’s place in the world. Calgary, AB won widespread affection with his slow-building spencerjo.bandcamp.com FRI 1:00PM: BROKEN CITY schizophrenia-inspired compositions, and his use of To fathom that this is music produced by members untamed synthesizers and death’s-door drum ma- of a landlocked city is brain-scrambling. If the ocean chines results in matchless productions every time. STEPMOTHERS itself decided to pick up an instrument or two, it soundcloud.com/pete-swans Edmonton, AB wouldn’t sound nearly as beachy and surftastic FRI 10:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS as these guys do. Grab your boards and ride their Sometimes, punk lacks for want of a hook, some- TAIWAN watter-logged, spring reverb waves! It’s basically a Edmonton, AB thing delicious and oh, so attractive to draw you in guarantee that you’ll be leaving drenched and with and make you want to leave everything behind. Luck- WED 11:30PM: BAMBOO sand in places you never knew you had. Direct-to-VHS love stories about being stranded in ily, Stepmothers have hooks to spare. Their poppy, surfkitties.bandcamp.com three-minute blasts are as emotive and expressive an abandoned cabin with only a rusted chainsaw

61 as your friend. David Cronenberg might make an pieces and laces them with smoked-out drums and appearance, but only if you figure out how to seduce modern synth stylings. The duo has an unmistak- him with the aforementioned chainsaw. That creepy able, almost space-age take on old-school R&B and lullaby filtering through the moonless forest? That’s the duo’s mastery of the sampler is only rivalled by Edmonton’s Taiwan, playing the smooth dirge for your Stasia and Catherine’s mutual vocal prowess. orgasmic funeral. taiwan.bandcamp.com theesatisfaction.bandcamp.com TECHNICAL KIDMAN THE THERMALS Montreal, QC Portland, OR FRI 11:30AM: COMMONWEALTH SAT 6:30PM: OLYMPIC PLAZA FRI 10PM: TUBBY DOG SAT 1AM: Dickens Technical Kidman blends shoegaze spectacle with Believe it or not, The Thermals have come a long way post-prog sophistication, resulting in songs that since their first cassette. They still have the same overwhelm the audience in the best way possible. scrappy lo-fi charm, but their songwriting sensibili- The band describes itself as transcendental and ties have refined immensely over the last decade. they’re not exaggerating: this is music on a massive These days, the Portland, OR rockers are writing scale. technicalkidman.bandcamp.com some of the tightest, most awe-inspiring rock and roll out there. thethermals.com TELEDROME Calgary, AB THIS HISSES TUE 8:30PM: COMMONWEALTH Winnipeg, MB The sound of the future as imagined in the ‘80s. THU 11:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Teledrome is nebulous, monotone synth-punk that Inspired by classic cinema as much as they are by was probably time-warped everywhere, and simulta- surf and rockabilly, Winnipeg rockers This Hisses neously, too, which means dimension transcendent have a unique sound featuring Morricone-style guitar music, rocketing at us from a parallel universe way and strong vocals. The band’s penchant for telling the fuck yonder. stories about heartbreak and violence completes the teledrome.bandcamp.com aesthetic. thishisses.com

TELSTAR DRUGS TORCHE Calgary, AB Miami, FL FRI 10:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS THU 12:30AM: Dickens PUB Lo-fi aficionados will remember when bands used Torche are the prime example of how to take ‘90s the genre as a means to release dynamic, free- grunge influences and make them relevant in 2013. flowing rock music unencumbered by the rigid re- Doom pop with more pieces of flair than you can quirements of full recording studios. Telstar Drugs hold, these Floridian masters of sludge and sunshine remembers that time and they’re doing right by the are like a pool of molten mercury glistening in the masters of home recording. Their songs are loose afternoon haze. Get lit, puke some rainbows and feel and spontaneous, hazy guitar-driven snapshots of their volume transform your body. forgotten evenings. torche.bandcamp.com telstardrugs.bandcamp.com TOUGH AGE THEE OH SEES Vancouver, BC San Francisco, CA FRI 2:30PM: BROKEN CITY FRI 10:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB Bright, fast and relentless punk buried under scuzzy SAT 12:30AM: THE #1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS waves of lo-fi production and teenage irreverence, SUN 9PM: REPUBLIK Tough Age fit right in with the Western Canadian With their sold-out, still-talked about appearance punk scene that is largely clustered around Mam- at Sled Island 2011, the psych-tinged, Krautrock- moth Cave. It doesn’t hurt that they’re all but a inspired, San Francisco-based garage rockers supergroup, featuring members of Korean Gut, Witch cemented themselves as one of Calgary’s favourite Baby, Sightlines and No Band. Trade high-fives and live bands. In addition to multiple sets by one of the Bazooka Joe strips at the end of their set to complete most prolific, challenging and rewarding rock bands the best night of your life. today, Sled Island is overjoyed to announce Thee Oh tough-age.bandcamp.com Sees frontman, John Dwyer, as one of the guest cura- tors for the 2013 edition of the festival. TRIGGER EFFECT theeohsees.com Montreal, QC FRI 8PM: NEW BLACK THEESATISFACTION SAT 12AM: THE PALOMINO Seattle, WA Trigger Effect are riff-punk taken to a frenzied, THU 11:30PM: REPUBLIK booze-soaked, weirdo extreme. Like a ravaging Independent hip hop at its outer limits. THEESat- delirium, these Montreal gems would just as soon isfaction takes classic soul samples, cuts them to throttle you in your sleep and use your corpse for 62 SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS swans New York City, NY WED 10:30PM: Dickens Sled Island is beyond proud to present the Calgary debut of the critically acclaimed, eardrum-crushing, Michael Gira-fronted experimental rock band, Swans. In 2012, a mere thirty years into their career, Swans released their latest album, The Seer, a sprawling, triple LP masterpiece that currently sits atop too many-to-count “Best Of” lists. Their live show is a sonic and physical experience that consistently leaves audience members both in paralyzed awe and forever changed. Gira himself has described his live shows as “soul-uplifting and body- destroying.” If you were to ask 10 different people what makes Swans such an important band, you would, in all likelihood, get 10 different answers. Swans have made an indelible mark on post-punk, emerging from the New York no wave scene to riff into the ground as the band swirls into a bleak, black, broken vortex. Swans become something more fully formed and beautiful, with an angry temper that proved that heavy and complex music doesn’t have to be weighted down with always seems to hover around the flashpoint to match, as their name suggests. adornment, but could instead relish in its own density, compressing further and Early Swans material is impossibly hypnotic, often driving a single, minimalist further until the sound becomes wholly singular. swans.pair.com nefarious purposes as they would grind out another haunted, overcast vocals. An impressive and on the open water? It doesn’t matter, you’re too impeccably messy jam. It’s going to loud, it’s going rough-hewn debut from Un Blonde, make sure you disoriented to tell. valiska.com to be hypnotic and it’s going to be totally fucking tread down to their muddy, sunshiney swamps and bonkers. triggereffect.ca catch these guys! unblonde.bandcamp.com VALLEYS Montreal, QC UBT UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA WED 9:30PM: Dickens Montreal, QC Portland, OR THU 12AM: THE PALOMINO FRI 2:30PM: COMMONWEALTH WED 1AM: BROKEN CITY A sound that peaks in inventive art-rock, Valleys SAT 11PM: Dickens UMO may need to eliminate the first word in their thrive in a shadowy mist that envelops all that Pop quiz, hot shot. What do you do after fronting name soon. Based in Portland, via New Zealand, the they do. Wispy vocals and sparse sonorities float Priestess, one of the must talked about and well- enigmatic trio have been turning heads at festivals untainted, unless when grounded in feedback-heavy, loved riff rock bands in Canada? What do you do? since their debut in 2011. The momentum is sure to imbued instrumental noise driven by momentous Well, if you’re Mikey Heppner, you continue to play continue as their eccentric mix of garage, psych and percussion. Valleys keenly delve into you and claim infinitely catchy rock & roll, only now with a hint of funk is as intriguing as it is addicting. your emotions. garage’d up psychedelia and a healthy display of unknownmortalorchestra.com valleysvalleys.bandcamp.com tasteful flute (!?). Confused? Don’t be! Their new album is, simply put, one of the best Canadian VALISKA VAPID releases in years. ubt-666.bandcamp.com Calgary, AB Vancouver, BC WED 10PM: THE HIFI CLUB SAT 11PM: BAMBOO UN BLONDE As moody and minimalist as the pristine black-and- Vancouver’s fabled Emergency Room is a seemingly Calgary, AB white landscapes elegantly draped on his homepage, endless pit of excellent No Fun City punk. There’s an- SAT 2PM: TUBBY DOG Valiska plumbs the emotional and spiritual depths of archic glee coursing through the bands that emerged The newest side project coming from YYC favou- its mastermind, Kris Sujata. Crackling intermissions out of that shady venue and Vapid are perhaps the rites, Faux Fur. These boys have already jarred their warble in and out of focus as he tries to tune into a poppiest of the bunch. Snotty bubblegum punk is token hazy production, as braced by steadfast, lost, ethereal frequency. A landmark appears on the stomped down into nasty, angry ragers designed to clanging metallic guitar strides and happily misty horizon after days lost at sea, but you can’t shred throats, guitars and souls. be sure if it’s a mirage or not. Do mirages happen vapid.bandcamp.com

63 VICTORIES up in gauzy, dreamy, tightly-focused pop songwriting. immaculate means of bizarro sonics, watery vox and Not everything in rock and roll has to shake a death echo-laden FX to instil vigour. Vancouver, BC rattle: sometimes, it’s okay to let yourself spend a lazy walter-tv.bandcamp.com TUE 11PM: COMMONWEALTH Sunday afternoon in the arms of someone you love, Fri 3:15pm: Broken City staring up at the infinite sky and thinking sweet noth- Belinda Carlisle once sang that “heaven is a place on ings. villagevillage.bandcamp.com WAR BABY Earth,” and she’s right. I can’t say if she’s ever seen Vancouver, BC a Victories show or not, but “heaven” is a sweaty, FRI 11PM: THE NO.1 LEGION dim, packed venue, Victories is on stage and songs VIOLENCE If the War Baby boys ever went into commercial about shotgunnin’ beer, denim & leather, partyin’, and Calgary, AB advertising, I fully recommend them ripping off Pep- makin’ out come blaring over the speakers as you dou- FRI 7:30PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE peridge Farms. “Remember when rock was sludgy ble-fist whatever gloriously cheap beer you can find. Potently emotive post-hardcore that wraps its and plaid and noisy and full of feedback and loud/ Your feet move, your hips shake, you grin like an idiot, tendrils and possesses you by the ribcage. Violence quiet/loud progressions and from Seattle? War Baby and “Vic” and “Torie” unleash the party you could only effusively divulges, expelling their strife of mind as remembers.” And not only do they remember, they’ve dream of if every month was just full of Saturdays. a way to fathom experience. The band being a locus fully embraced their inner Lizard with their new Heaven. victorieswastaken.bandcamp.com for catharsis and you are meant to consume their album Jesus Horse. When you check them out at Sled purges. violencecalgary.bandcamp.com this year, crush a few dozen Olympias and get rowdy VIET CONG for the full effect. warbaby.bandcamp.com Calgary, AB VIOLET AGE WED 11PM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS Vancouver, AB WARM SODA THU 4PM: BROKEN CITY PATIO THU 1PM: LOCAL 510 Oakland, CA Off-kilter but highly rhythmic, Viet Cong is the latest Come get lost in a mess of pedals and reverb as Vio- THU 9PM: TUBBY DOG of post-Women calgary indie rock. Members of Lab late Age spiral off this planet in a fashion that would FRI 12:30AM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS Coast, Sharp Ends and Friendo keep the art of tense make Ray Bradbury proud. Droning grooves provide SAT 12AM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS post-punk with complexly simple guitar leads alive. the fuel for a brilliant display of hazy noise-rock. “Hey pal, that’s an awful lot of soda pop you’ve got vietcong.bandcamp.com violetage.bandcamp.com there.” Warm Soda is saving pop-punk, picking up the Lookout! heyday’s crunch and tossing in bits of everything from ABBA to Ziggy Stardust. You won’t VILLAGE W ALter TV know whether to slow-dance or slam-dance. Vancouver, BC Montreal, QB warmsoda.bandcamp.com FRI 6PM: WINE-OHS FRI 11:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS Self-described as “wuss rock,” what Vancouver’s Vil- These metallic psych-pop vaudevillians will charm lage may lack in brash volume, they more than make you with their spasmodic weirdness, if not by an THE WASHBOARD UNION Vancouver, BC FRI 11PM: THE IRONWOOD Outlaw country will always have a certain dark- horse kind of appeal. After all, there are few cooler fantasies than living outside the stifling confines of society, rustling up trouble town after town, frontier masculinity in full display as you open the double saloon doors in the dusty evening light. Washboard Union have taken it a step further and have banded together as a septet, ready to raid unsuspecting listeners across Western Canada. thewashboardunion.com WE ARE THE CITY Vancouver, BC SAT 9:30PM: THE GOLDEN AGE CLUB It’d be criminal to call a group barely in their 20s veterans, but this trio of high-school friends have grown and found enough success to be considered just that. Creating experimental pop anthems out of prog-rock atmospheres, expect a dark but rambunc- tious live set. wearethecity.ca

THE WEIR Calgary, AB THU 10:30PM: Dickens There are few things more satisfying in the world than being crushed underneath the merciless weight of mammoth guitar and bass stacks piled high, all quiver- ing like caged tigers as hundreds and hundreds of watts of electricity pulsate through them. In the hands of the Weir, these forces become positively supernatural, 64 charged with the complete annihilation of their audi- results. Witchstone’s variation on doom metal makes SLED ISLAND BAND BIOS ence. You’ve been warned. theweir.bandcamp.com liberal use of chug-chug guitar riffs and occult- inspired subject matter but their songs contain more depth than most sludge bands bother to include. WHITE ASH FALLS The band anchors itself on bone-crushing riffs but Vancouver, BC varies the songs’ intensity levels and lets the tempo THU 9PM: WINE-OHS breathe. witchstone.bandcamp.com Andy Bishop, former member of psych-rock group Red Cedar fronts an inspired folk-rock collective. As polished as a fresh hardwood floor, Bishop takes THE WIZARDS a more traditional approach with a soulful core of Saskatoon, SK authenticity. whiteashfalls.com FRI 6PM: TUBBY DOG The Wizards are among the leading bands in the Prairie Surf Revival movement, blasting out of tideless WHITE LUNG Saskatoon with the wettest guitar licks between here Vancouver, BC and Hawaii. The band also has a firm grasp of classic Thu 1am: Broken City psychedelia, blending poppy lyrics about unlikely SAT 12AM: THE NO.1 LEGION DOWNSTAIRS situations and a healthy dose of “la-la-las” into their A real gem of a band rooted in some riot grrrl bom- surf-driven rock songs. wizardmusic.bandcamp.com bardment, White Lung have received much-deserved attention for their fury-infused fusillade. Mish Way’s vocals are hellish and relentless and White Lung’s YOUNG BENJAMINS bona fide hardcore, DIY punk rock will shred you into Saskatoon, SK a million sweaty pieces. whitelung.ca WED 11PM: THE PALOMINO The recent exodus of great indie-folk bands coming out of Saskatchewan continues. Born in England WHITE WOMEN to Iranian parents, Neusha Mofazzali leads this Regina, SK talented quartet into an alternative East-meets-West SAT 10PM: THE PALOMINO sound that flows seamlessly. Despite residing in Regina, White Women have youngbenjamins.com strong ties to Calgary. The noisy three-piece rock and roll outfit was formed from the ashes of Ghosts of Modern Man, who played the first Sled Island, and YOUNG BRAISED Bluebeard, who were signed to Melodiya Records. Vancouver, BC Relatively new and all-too-eager to impress, White THU 12AM: BAMBOO Women have their sights set firmly on ‘90s AmRep On a mountain towering over Vancouver’s decrepit noise entropy and are ready to get sweaty with you. sprawl, Young Braised raps with the calm patience https://www.facebook.com/pages/White-Wom- of someone who knows that, when you put out en/468302756569462 product this good, the world waits for you. Taking to the Internet to languidly, almost lazily, chew up MATTHEW A WILKINSON disparate rhymes that contort rap’s usual subject Grande Prairie, AB matter, he takes the minutiae of quotidian existence, SAT 6PM: NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE churns it through a kitsch codeine filter and slathers Matthew A. Wilkinson’s twisted reality seeps into his it thickly online only to watch it slowly melt in front songs, obsessed with bouts of religious terror and urban of him. youngbraised.com exhaustion. His world-weary voice sounds as much at home between thumb-pianos and glockenspiels as ZEBRASSIERES it does between twisting synthesizers and foreboding Ottawa, ON guitars. matthewawilkinson.bandcamp.com THU 10:30PM: THE NO.1 LEGION UPSTAIRS Buzzsaw pop punk that winks at the sensibilities of new-wave, every song whittled by Zebrassieres RENNY WILSON is vivifying and invigorating. Like a breath of fresh Edmonton, AB sody-pop, there is just too much syrupy fun to be had FRI 2:30PM: THE PALOMINO UPSTAIRS here — it’s enough to thrust you completely off your Why is it that disco-revival crooners tend to be the rocker! Good thing though, because lost mind-marbles weirdest dudes around? And why did they all seem- is essentially a prerequisite to perch yourself in these ingly grow up in Edmonton? Following in the foot- parts. zebrassieres.bandcamp.com steps of cheap cigarette connoisseur, Mac DeMarco, Renny Wilson, too, updates a smooth, ‘70s sound for the modern, discombobulated, age. ZEN MYSTERY FOGG sugarglider.bandcamp.com Vancouver, BC SAT 1PM: LOCAL 510 SAT 9PM: REPUBLIK WITCHSTONE Fuzzy two-piece bring surf rock into a dark garage & Calgary, AB bind it in a crude mix of pop and post-rock sensibili- THU 9:30PM: Dickens ties with enough hooks and reverb to kill a horse. Slow and heavy, maximum volume yields maximum zenmysteryfogg.bandcamp.com 65 66 SLED ISLAND EAST VILLAGE EAST VILLAGE EVENTS

A beautiful partnership was formed in 2012 with Calgary’s East Village, the sharp-as-a- will be surrendered for this one incredible night. between Sled Island and Calgary’s East Vil- tack curatorial sensibilities of The HiFi Club, The lineup, lovingly crafted by The HiFi Club, is lage community. TThe partnership brought the the samplings, goods and wares of some of an eclectic mix of celebrated hometown dance festival into new territory and, with help from Calgary’s most gifted artisans brought together floor heroes, imported beat mashers and r’n’b the good people at the HiFi Club, it resulted by the good folks at Market Collective, a public pushers, designed to achieve one common goal: in a massive, free outdoor party along the assembly of food trucks, and a whole lot of thirst throw a FREE party in the streets of Calgary the hot, steamy banks of the mighty Bow River. quenching Mill Street beer. likes of which haven’t been seen since the last Thousands showed up in 2012 to dance away East Village Block Party. the warm Calgary summer night to the beats, The ingredients have been gathered and the samples, grooves and scratches produced by Second Annual East Village Block Party is set The East Village Block Party is a chance for an impressive lineup of electronic musicians, to take over the River Walk Plaza in Calgary’s all Calgarians, young and old, coordinated or browse the wares at the local arts market, East Village from 4pm – 10pm on Thursday June, uncoordinated, to gather on the banks of Cal- sample food truck offerings and spend some 20, 2013. This time around, there’s one new gary’s mightiest river in the heart of Calgary’s serious quality time in the beer garden. It was a element that is going to push this night over newest urban village for an inspiring and (to magical evening, the kind that can keep people the top: the Red Bull Tour Bus, which is quite put it simply) fun night of music, art, food and going even on the coldest of winter nights, literally “more than meets the eye”. At the flip refreshments. Don’t miss this one, Calgary. knowing that summer and another evening like of a switch (or the turn of a crank, or press of a it are just around the corner. button, whatever it takes, really…) the classic The East Village Block Party is a FREE outdoor coach bus transforms into a mobile stage fully event, open to everyone and runs from 4pm – Once the dancing had stopped, the food trucks equipped with a lighting rig and a sound system 10pm. The lineup, start to finish:Ivan Rankic had moved on, the arts market had been packed featuring over 120,000 watts of thumping (Hai Karate, CGY), Crimson (The Rinseout, up, and the beer garden put away, one question concert audio. CGY), Mark Mills (CGY), Sabota (Vancouver), weighed heavily on everyone’s mind, “What’s it Smalltown DJs (T&A/Plant Music, CGY), Kingdom going to take to make this happen again?” Turns Putting this wattage to use will be a hand- & Kelela (Fade to Mind, LA), Drop The Lime out, it takes much of what was needed the first picked selection of artists from across North (Trouble & Bass, NYC), Keys N Krates (DIM MAK, time around: a love-at-first sight partnership America, to whom Calgary’s collective groove Toronto).

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Sled Island is committed to hosting and promoting an environmentally Thanks to our official bike sponsor, First conscious festival. We are striving to become a leader in festival sustain- Calgary Financial, we are able to provide ability and are working to enable others to do the same. Because you valet service bike parking at the East Village Block Party and the Olympic have told us that sustainability is important to you, we are gladly putting Plaza main stage. Park your bike conveniently and securely with our bike in the extra effort this involves. By engaging fans, artists, community valet team. Keep an eye out for our expanded bike parking options this and municipal partners we will work intelligently together to plan and year at many of our largest venues. implement strategies that will help make Sled Island as environmentally responsible as it can be. We believe that our commitment to sustainabil- We want everyone to stay safe while riding this year. Our ity is a vital part to the Sled Island experience. Who says you can’t have bike pals, Prohab Helmet Society, will be hanging with fun while changing the world? us in The East Village and at Olympic Plaza. If you don’t already have a helmet, these rad folks can protect your Recycling and waste reduction brain for a very reasonable deal. One of the key ways Sled Island is working towards sustainability is by Photo by Crystal Sujata strengthening our waste management systems. Thanks to our founding sponsor, Cenovus Energy, and our festival partner, The City of Calgary, we are able to effectively manage the waste created during Sled and recycle the rest.

Our long-term goal is to make Sled Island a zero waste event, where all waste is reused, recycled or composted. We have a long way to go to reach this goal and we can’t do it without your commitment. In 2012, Sled Island was able to divert 61% of our waste from the landfill. This year, the Green Team is shooting for a 75% diversion rate. We are all part of the Green Team’s community: do your part, lend a hand and thank our awesome volunteers.

Bikes We love bikes! Riding bikes is great fun and a great way to get around with your friends. Bikes are definitely the best way to get the most of Sled Island. The Green Island crew is working to make it fun and easy to ride your bike during Sled.

Everything Green • Request bike racks from 311 in front of your favorite establishment • Support local businesses Here are some other things Sled Island has recently done to make our • Grow some veggies operations more environmentally friendly: • Vote • Hang with friends and make new ones. Grow your community. • Implemented a Sledquaters office recycling and compost program • Stay rad! • Installed 100 permanent bike parking spaces at Sled Island venues Photo by Crystal Sujata • Worked with venues to reduce waste and increase efficiency • Purchased our volunteer t-shirts from environmentally friendly suppliers • Created a full time Sustainability Coordinator position • Fabricated bike racks for use by friends of Sled Island

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In no particular order: The countless festival volunteers, Zak Pashak, Lindsay Shedden, Naheed Nenshi, Garth Jones and The City of Calgary, Guinevere Sanderson and the Department of Canadian Heritage, Cenovus, every single one of our host venues and their staff, Dan Northfield, The Concorde Group, Twyla Yacyshyn, Jeremy Black, Mike, Claire, Susan and Erin and the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, Jon Jackson and everyone at the Calgary Hotel Association, Todd Harkness, Blair and David and everyone at the Fairmont Palliser, Angel and Angela at the Market Collective, Kathy Paterson at Tier One Travel, Carlene and Raj with the CRA, Craig Evans, Josh McNorton, Rick at the Golden Age Club, Colin Canning and Commonwealth Bar & Stage, Dan Roy, Sarmad and everyone at Hifi Club, Rick and Susan at the #1 Royal Canadian Legion, Arlen Smith, Spencer Brown and the staff at the Palomino Smokehouse, Local 510, Jeffrey Storey, Josh Ruck, Evan Van Reekum, Danny Vacon, The Queens Group, Karolina Gajewska, Adele Brunnhofer, Richard Larson, Karilynn Thompson, Cole Binder, Noel Begin, The Globe Cinema, Felicia Glatz, Nicola Waugh and CSIF, Candace Elder and the National Music Center, Penny Szmata and The Glenbow Museum, Nathan Head and Milk Tiger Lounge, Myke Atkinson and CJSW, The Good Life Community Bike Shop, Texas Lounge, Dave Lynes at ABM Audio, Long and McQuade Musical Instruments, Garrett Hendriks, Ian Baker, Wlad Woyno, Cam Clowe, Kelly Akins, Jess Howat, Shaquille O’Neil for being Zak’s rock, Alex Free, John Hiebert, 2013 Festival Sound Light and Stage Technician, Ian Russell, Lakin Wecker, Jay MacGillvray at Structured Abstraction, Greg Curtis and Justin Huculak at Tooth Blackner Presents, Kallen Law, PJ Lavergne, Sebastian Buzzalino, Allen Pujo, David Kenney, Allie Jackson, Deluxe Design Group, Ron Joe, Megan Patterson, Keaton Pridham, Kelly Pleau, Chad Persley, Andrew Neville, Pop Montreal, Joe Gurba, Kevin Stebner, Micheal Halls, Rebecca Douglas, Sascha Bogdanov, Jay Allen, Liz Durden, Aubrey McInnis, Grace Jones, Brnesh Behre, Clare Nolan and the CMLC, Jen Clement, Allison Onyett at Avenue, Mandy Palubicki at at CKUA, Erin Randles, Darcy Spidle at Obey Convention, Vish Khanna, Fred Bye at FFWD Weekly, Gillian Kennedy, Stephen Nachtigall, Matt Learoyd, Marie Flanagan and Aaron Levin, Paul Lawton, Sarah Ford, Jesse Locke and Marki Sveen, Neal Moignard we love you, the wonderful staff at the Purple Perk, Broken Water, Gabriel Jasmin, Simon Portigal, Danny Wilson, Patricia Boushel, Patti Derbyshire, Josiah Hughes, Michelle Cable and Annie Southworth at Panache, Weird Canada, CFUV, CJSR, CKXU, Sheena Jardine-Olade, Matt Porterfield, Neal Moignard, Lukes Drug Mart, Caffe Beano, Sarah Ford, Sara Hughes, Mac DeMarco, Linnea Dixon, Kali Urqhart, Tim Hecker, Regina Greene, John Dwyer, Dave Hodge, Jay Onrait, Nardwuar, Andy Cookson at Vue Weekly, Heath at Planet S, David Pearlman at Georgia Straight, Scott Andrews at Dose.ca, Tourism Calgary, Travel Alber- ta, Jon and Katie at Vice, Paul at SappyFest, Adam Kamis, Tom Scharpling, Stan Peloski, Rachel Sorensen, Damian Schumack, Costel Anghele, Janek Guminski, Lana Van Brunt, Jamie Jamie Morris, Allison Webb, Erik Fields, Tammy Primeau, Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi, Colin Sproule, Courtney Hayes-Jorgensen, Ryan from New Dog, Ross Milne, Mike Crossley at Exclaim!, Josefa and Paulette, Jenn Jackson, Jack Bride, Todd Patrick, Richard Freeman, Jenn Kitagawa, Michael Boisclair and Renfrew Insurance, Mish Way, Paul Chirka at OCL Studios, Brett McDermott, Dawn Marshall, Jeremy Dabrowski, Kerry Maguire, Megan Kirk, Tubby Dog, Sonja Bloomer, Amy Horne, Dave Muir, Kevin Boyer, Devin Friesen and everyone at Sloth Records, Megan Jorgensen-Nelson, Mason Hastie, Ted Stenson, Jackie Flanagan and Alberta Views Magazine, Derek McEwen, Adam and Erin at the Calgary Tower, Jeff Grutz, Sara Leishman, Peter Oliver, Gavin Carscallen and Upmarket Projects, Jim Button, Eliese Watson, Bike Calgary, David Winkler, Sarah Erickson, all Volunteers! Marc Rimmer, Steve and Jus- tin at Mill Street, the whole Beatroute Team, Betty Kellsey at Canada Safeway, Kris Weinmenn, Alex Middleton and ACAD, Erin & Nada at Etsy, Vanessa at ION Magazine, Downtown Calgary, Halifax Pop Explosion, YYC Food trucks, Calgary Folk Fest, Adrienne Treeshin, Brenda Liberman and CUFF, Jasmine Palardy and Beakerhead, Music Waste, NXNE, Terry Rock and CADA, Wendy Peters, Music Calgary, Famoso Pizza, Greg Stephenson, Zac and Nudie Jeans, Tim Jones and FACTOR, Willie and Mae at the Western Coffee Shop, every single person whose name does not appear here but should have!

...and all of the bands, comedians, filmmakers, artists, festival-goers and naysayers alike. You have played a huge part in making this the greatest Sled Island yet and we love you for it. Thank you Calgary!

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