Line-up for Camp Wavelength announced: Cloud Nothings, Operators, Young Galaxy, Odonis Odonis, Bart, Casper Skulls, For Esmé, and much much more

Camp Wavelength has just announced the first round of acts for this year's festival. It will be taking place on Toronto Island from August 19-21. The Wavelength team is continuing to embrace their DIY spirit and focus on local, sustainable, and community-run culture. I attended their Wavelength Festival in February and it was a very cool event with a ton of great artists.

This summer's festival includes musical acts Cloud Nothings, Operators, Young Galaxy, Odonis Odonis, Jef E. Barbara's Black Space, Guerilla Toss, LAL, Bruce Peninsula, Moss Lime, Brendan Philip, Spek Won, Bart, Casper Skulls, Michelle McAdorey, For Esmé, and Wolf Saga, PLUS: Dance Dance Party Puppets by Andrew Lamb, In Synch (synchronized swimming), Zoo Owl (forest performance/installation), Open Fortress (dance interventions), Cassandra Witteman: Atlantis (beach performance), Live painting by Mairen Doyle, Geocaching by Kathryn Farewell, DIY video games by Mattendo, Literary readings hosted by Brad Casey, Posi Space hangouts with Posi Vibez, Vintage clothing stall by The Outpost, Virtual reality demo & FIVARS 2016 preview with VRTO, and interactive art installations by: Versa, Franziska Beeler, Melissa Goldstein, and Basement Studio Project.

Very limited Camping, Festival & VIP Room Passes are now available online only at TicketFly.com. For the first time ever, festival-goers also have the opportunity to purchase a VIP Room Pass to stay in a private room on the festival site, inside the comfort of the Artscape Gibraltar Point artist retreat centre.

And here's a sampling of tunes from a few of the musical artists at this summer's Camp Wavelength:

Cloud Nothings

Operators

Young Galaxy

Odonis Odonis

Bruce Peninsula

Spek Won

Bart

Casper Skulls

Michelle McAdorey

For Esmé

New music from Young Galaxy - Body from Falsework

Young Galaxy have announced the release of their next album. It's going to be called Falsework and it comes out October 30. It was produced by Dan Lissvik who produced their last couple of albums. We get to check out the cool dance track "Body" right now. It's good and catchy and fun. Just like we like our Young Galaxies.

Pic from Facebook.

Two new Young Galaxy clips: Fever and Hard to Tell

Here are two more videos from Young Galaxy's Ultramarine. They are for the tunes "Fever" and "Hard to Tell". This album was very deservingly nominated for this year's Polaris Prize. And I do recommend seeing these guys live. They put on a fun show.

The Top 20: The best albums of 2013, according to me. The year's most awesome and cool pop, indie, and alternative albums.

As has become my habit, I'm not ranking my albums list. These are the 20 albums that made the biggest impression on me in 2013, alphabetically.

1984 Influenza

Biffy Clyro Opposites

Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe

Cults Static

Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart

Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse

Haim Days Are Gone

Lorde Pure Heroine

Metz Metz

MS MR Secondhand Rapture

Neko Case The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals

Small Black Limits of Desire

Superchunk I Hate Music

Telekinesis Dormarion

The Darcys Warring

The Joy Formidable Wolf's Law

The Naked And Famous In Rolling Waves

The National Trouble Will Find Me

Young Galaxy Ultramarine

The Top 50: The best songs of 2013, according to me. The year's most awesome and cool pop, indie, and alternative songs.

As the year progresses, I'm usually not aware of whether it's a great year for music or not. By about mid-year, I'm thinking that I have no idea what I'd put on a "best of" list. iTunes certainly helps by letting me see my top rated songs released in any given year.

Overall, it felt like more of a year of pop than anything else. We got tons of great pop melodies, and I love it. There's lots of other stuff in here too, including lots of loud guitars, which I also love.

Check out the list of my 50 favourite tunes of 2013.

50. "California" Mazzy Star
49. "Silent Treatment" The Joy Formidable
48. "Tendons" The Joy Formidable
47. "Fantasy" MS MR
46. "Out of My League" Fitz & the Tantrums
45. "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo" Superchunk

44. "Empathetic People" Telekinesis

43. "Maze" 1984

42. "All The Days" Haerts
41. "Tennis Court" Lorde
40. "I Kill Giants" The Naked And Famous

39. "Middle Sea" Yuck

38. "New Summer" Young Galaxy
37. "Hurricane" MS MR
36. "Lies" Chvrches
35. "Spider X" California X
34. "Power Lines" Telekinesis
33. "All The Time" The Strokes
32. "Black Chandelier" Biffy Clyro
31. "Let The Day Begin" Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
30. "Little Blimp" The Joy Formidable
29. "Ways To Go" Grouplove
28. "Mind Your Manners" Pearl Jam
27. "Change" Mikal Cronin
26. "San Francisco" The Mowgli's
25. "Pretty Boy" Young Galaxy
24. "Gun" Chvrches

23. "Sex" The 1975

22. "Man" Neko Case
21. "You're Not The One" Sky Ferreira
20. "Loud Like Love" Placebo
19. "Backyard Skulls" Frightened Rabbit
18. "Forever" Haim
17. "Climbers" Mansions
16. "Bitter Rivals" Sleigh Bells
15. "Too Many Friends" Placebo
14. "I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)" Icona Pop
13. "Royals" Lorde
12. "High Road" Cults
11. "Hearts Like Ours" The Naked and Famous

10. "Sea of Love" The National

9. "I Can Hardly Make You Mine" Cults

8. "Headphones" Mounties

7. "Holy" Frightened Rabbit

6. "Cholla" The Joy Formidable

5. "Dead Now" Frightened Rabbit

4. "Plain Sailing Weather" Frank Turner

3. "The Mother We Share" Chvrches

2. "The Woodpile" Frightened Rabbit

1. "This Ladder is Ours" The Joy Formidable

This year, I've linked out to YouTube for checking out most of the tunes. I've even made a playlist of this year's list. Previous years' lists took too long to load and often caused flash to crash.

Young Galaxy and Alvvays at The Hoxton

On November 22, I caught Young Galaxy and Alvvays at The Hoxton here in Toronto. I had been meaning to see Young Galaxy for a long time and finally got out to a show. I saw Alvvays opening for The Joy Formidable at The Mod Club back in November 2012.

I put up the lead pic on purpose. Not because it's a good pic (it's not) but rather to show how dark Young Galaxy turned the lights for their show. They sounded great but at times all but disappeared on stage. No worries. It's the music we were there for, and the music delivered.

Highlights of the set for me were "Pretty Boy", "Fall For You", "New Summer" and the encore of Erasure's "A Little Respect". That cover was a perfect fit for Young Galaxy. Overall, it was a fun show in a good venue. Then we all shuffled out and made room for the late show of the evening at The Hoxton.

Here are a bunch of great tunes from Young Galaxy for your listening and dancing pleasure:

"Crying My Heart Out"

"Blown Minded"

"Pretty Boy"

"Sleepwalk with Me"

"Fall For You"

"New Summer"

"We Have Everything"

"A Little Respect" by Erasure

Alvvays were into their set when we arrived. They're a Toronto-based, self-described jangle pop band. To me, they sounded more powerful and self-assured than they did at The Mod Club show. Good stuff and I'd surely venture out to see them again.

Here's their official video and another tune:

"Adult Diversion"

"Archie, Marry Me"

Overall, it was a great night of firsts for me: First time seeing Young Galaxy, first gig at The Hoxton and first time using a big DSLR at a show. Definitely learned a lot about the camera by making lots of mistakes. I'll get better with practice...

New Young Galaxy video for Sleepwalk With Me

I feel like I've been writing about Young Galaxy an awful lot lately. They teased out some new tunes, then they released Ultramarine, then they were nominated for the Polaris Prize, then they released a deluxe version of Ultramarine, and now they have a new video for the tune "Sleepwalk With Me".

I invite you to check it out below. It does indeed sound like it could be the soundtrack to sleepwalking.

They're playing November 22 at The Hoxton in Toronto. Look for yet another post after that gig.

More new Young Galaxy tracks from deluxe Ultramarine release revealed

On September 24, Young Galaxy will release the deluxe version of the Polaris Prize nominated album Ultramarine. I previously posted the track "Crying My Heart Out" and now we get to listen to two more: the cool and slick "Talk to Her" and the uber easy going "Sea Drug", all of which are on the new release.

Cool tunes!





They're also performing at The Hoxton in Toronto on November 22. Hope to see you there!

Deluxe version of Ultramarine from Young Galaxy on the way

Wouldn't it be cool if Young Galaxy won the Polaris Prize with their Ultramarine album? It sure would.

The day after the Polaris gala, on September 24, Young Galaxy are releasing a deluxe edition of Ultramarine. This tune, "Crying My Heart Out", is on it.



And in case you missed it, like I did, here's the video for "Fall For You".

Arts & Crafts' 10th Anniversary: 10 bands - 10 years

Arts & Crafts, an awesome Canadian indie label, recently celebrated their tenth anniversary. To honour them, here are 10 songs from 10 bands who were, or still are, on Arts & Crafts.

Broken Social Scene with "Almost Crimes" from their 2003 release You Forgot It In People.

Feist with "Mushaboom" from 2006's Open Season.

Dan Mangan with "Road Regrets" from 2009's Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

Chikita Violenta with "Tired" from their 2011 release TRE3S.

Los Campesinos amazing tune "You! Me! Dancing!" appeared on their 2007 EP Sticking Fingers Into Sockets and their 2008 album Hold On Now, Youngster.

Zeus with "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?" from 2012's Busting Visions.

Cold Specks with "Winter Solstice" from her 2012 release I Predict A Graceful Expulsion.

Stars are Arts & Crafts alumni. Here's "Elevator Love Letter" from 2003's Heart.

Phoenix used to be on Arts & Crafts. This is "Consolidation Prizes" from back in 2006 and the album It's Never Been Like That.

Alum Young Galaxy from their 2007 eponymous début with "Outside the City".

This is just some of the beauty that Arts & Crafts has helped share with the world. Visit their site and their bands' sites to check out more.

Thanks for all the great music, Arts & Crafts!

Cool songs from the Polaris Prize long list

Those music-loving folks at The Polaris Music Prize have released this year's long list of nominees. I'll be picking through it and discovering some new stuff I've never heard before, but for now, I'll just post a few of the familiar standouts from the list, from my perspective.

Best of luck to all the nominees for exposure, success and music-making.

The Luyas, Animator, "Fifty Fifty"

Metric, Synthetica, "Youth Without Youth"

METZ, METZ, "Wet Blanket"

AC Newman, Shut Down The Streets, "I'm Not Talking"

Purity Ring, Shrines, "Fineshrine"

Tegan and Sara, Heartthrob, "Closer"

Young Galaxy, Ultramarine, "Pretty Boy"

I really don't want to make a prediction on who will win for three reasons:

1. I'm not familiar with all the albums, so it would be unfair
2. Even among the artists I know, there are so many great songs
3. I don't usually like the band/album that wins

Video for New Summer by Young Galaxy

Here's the latest clip from Young Galaxy's recently-released album Ultramarine. The tune is "New Summer" and yes, I did feature the song when it was first previewed. The easy going tune makes me regret not going to see them at Lee's Palace a couple of weeks ago. Just wasn't feeling up for the night out...

Young Galaxy video for Pretty Boy

Young Galaxy just released Ultramarine, their latest long player. I posted this song back in February, and now it's got an official video. Yay!

New Young Galaxy - New Summer

It's been a mellow, female vocalist-focused few days here at One In Ten Words. I guess these things flow in cycles sometimes.

Young Galaxy have a new album, called Ultramarine, coming out April 23. I featured a song called "Pretty Boy" in a previous post. Here's another song, this one called "New Summer". It's good!

New Young Galaxy

Back in the summer, Young Galaxy put out a new single with a great couple of tracks. Here's a new tune from their new album Ultramarine, which is out April 23.

New Young Galaxy Songs

Here's the latest from Young Galaxy. It's a track called "Shoreless Kid" from their new 7". The flip side, "Youth is Wasted on the Young", was posted the other day on Stereogum. You can check them both out below. Cool tunes.

New Young Galaxy On It's Way!

Young Galaxy have a new album on the way. It's called Invisible Republic and it's out August 25. There's a free mp3 link for the song "Long Live The Fallen World" on their home page and you can check out some songs on their myspace.

Exclaim has an article where the band talks about their split from label Arts & Crafts.

They've announced their album release shows via their myspace blog:
Sept 9th, Zaphod Beeblebrox Ottawa, Ont. Canada
Sept 10th, The Drake Hotel Toronto, Ont, Canada
Sept 11th, Il Motore Montreal, Que. Canada

Also via their myspace blog, they've announce that there are 4 new songs on MTV Canada's web site. They sound good to me.

Here's the video for my favourite song from their eponymous release, available on emusic.