Sunday 14 February 2010



With glowing hearts

(photo: flickr.com/photos/koecki)

I would be remiss if I didn’t mark this day about love and hearts with a post of some sort or another, but even as I sit down and peck it out on my keyboard I don’t know exactly what I’m going to say.  There’s certainly been a lot said about love these last few days; love of one’s country, love of our fellow humans, and love at the start of a new (Chinese) year.  Apparently, there’s also a love of commerce (go figure!) that tries to capitalize on our love of love with creatively named movies like Valentine’s Day, that seem statistically foolproof based on the ratio of celebrities to screening time.  I guess it’s true what they say, love makes the world go ’round, and it takes all kinds of love to get this celestial ball of ours rolling.

If your world revolves around the greater metropolitan area of Toronto this weekend, you may wish to bring your love of music to the final night of the legendary Wavelength 10th anniversary festival, celebrating the weekly live music series that’s been credited (and rightfully so) as the birth of the new Canadian indie music nation.  Carl Wilson writes a great piece about Wavelength’s cultural significance and its influence beyond the music world in Friday’s Globe & Mail which I encourage you to check out.  As he points out, this is not the end of Wavelength, just the end of the weekly Sunday night series.  A monthly, cross-discipline version will surface sometime in the spring.  In order to send off the weekly series that gave rise to such notable talent as Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think, many of the artists who got their start, their big break, or suffered a big break-up after performing at Wavelength have been taking to stages all over the city as part of the 500th Wavelength show.  Today and tonight at the Garrison, Kids on TV, The Barcelona Pavilion, Mean Red Spiders, Boars, and Neck (a.k.a Christina) will gather–some for reunion shows–for the final installment.  You can get more info at the Wavelength main page.

So suffice to say there will be many a glowing hearts around the country today, not just in the Big Smoke, and fingers, toes and other appendages are crossed in high hopes that some of that glow will be gold.  Have yourselves a great Valentine’s Day, share it with those you love and those you cherish, and keep those fires burning in your hearts.  It may be cold outside, but it’s warm where it counts.

MP3: Bell X1 “I’ll See Your Heart and Raise you Mine”
MP3: Cuff the Duke “Listen to Your Heart”
MP3: Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan “Keep Me in Mind Sweetheart”
MP3: Feist “How My Heart Behaves”
MP3: Spoons “Nova Heart”





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