Colleen and Paul

This Friday, No Shame and Wavelength – in association with Pop Montreal – are bringing you Shamewave and here are the four reasons you cannot miss this show.

1) Nick Storring
Toronto’s Nick Storring is anything but your traditional musician. Combining ambient atmospherics with haunting electro tinges, Storring conjures up chilling storm clouds of instrumental proportions. No samples are used in his music, just various instruments, objects and field recordings.

2) Shapes + Sizes
Off on various other projects in the past couple of years (Miracle Fortress, Elfin Saddle, Think About Life), the members of Montreal’s Shapes + Sizes have again reunited for a new record entitled A Candle To Your Eyes (due out August 3). Back is the cacophony of noisy guitar riffs, quirky rhythms and lead singer Caila Thompson-Hannant’s off-filter yet beautiful voice.

3) Braids
Dream pop quartet Braids are still fairly young, in age and in existence as a band, but the maturity they pack in their perfectly woven hits is up their in the ranks of indie heavy hitters Animal Collective or the Dirty Projectors. If we didn’t give you enough warning before about this band, here’s another one. A few more months and we’ll be saying we told you so.

4) Colleen and Paul
What do we crave most during the summer? Well of course – sugary sweet sunshine folk pop. This power duo of sorts – Colleen Hixenbaugh of By Divine Right and Paul Linklater of The Pinecones – sings simplistic indie rock gems such as the cutesy “A Home In The Top Boughs” and fans of their respective day jobs will undoubtedly love the tunes of Colleen and Paul as well.

Tickets are still available for $8 in advance ($10 at the door) and doors are at 9pm. Come celebrate Wavelength 505 with a shamelessly amazing line up!