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  • Dan Croll

    Dan Croll

    Having recently been awarded the MBF songwriter award DAN CROLL is the latest bright light to spawn from Liverpool’s new music scene. Dan and his seven-piece multi-instrumental cohort are your future soundtrack to lazy summer days, playing perfectly crafted pop in the vain of Beirut, Grizzly Bear and Bon Iver. Sweeping instrumental melodies accompanying vocals with bags of charm.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketweb.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $11 ADV
    • Time: June 20, 2013, 8 p.m.
  • Elvis Monday

    Elvis Monday

    Elvis Monday is Toronto's longest running indie showcase. Now in its 27th year, at least 3000 bands have played Elvis Monday including Cowboy Junkies, Blind Melon, Treble Charger, Sum 41, Three Days Grace, Billy Talent, Peaches, JackSoul, Ron Sexsmith and BECK! Acting as a launching pad for many Toronto bands, Elvis Monday continues to champion emerging talent and play an important part of Toronto's music scene.

    TONIGHT'S LINEUP:
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    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: FREE
    • Time: June 24, 2013, 9 p.m.
  • Bleeding Rainbow

    Bleeding Rainbow

    BLEEDING RAINBOW started four years ago in Philadelphia as a two piece known then as Reading Rainbow. After completing two full length albums and a handful of singles, the group has expanded to include two additional members. This has allowed the band to evolve and gave them the freedom to explore the sonic extremes of their creativity. On their new LP, Yeah Right, the band has found a balance between the extremes of thrashy punk and psychedelic drone to create a new and inspiring sound.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketfly.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $11.50 ADV
    • Time: June 28, 2013, 8 p.m.
  • California Wives + My Gold Mask

    California Wives + My Gold Mask

    Chicago bands CALIFORNIA WIVES and MY GOLD MASK team up for a tour that hits the Drake Underground on this long-weekend night.

    CALIFORNIA WIVES incorporate their appreciation of electronic music, more specifically bands that mixed synthetic and traditional instruments like New Order and the Cure, with an indie pop and shoe gaze sound. Their debut album, Art History, is available now through Vagrant Records.

    MY GOLD MASK get experimental on their latest album, Leave Me Midnight, playing around with otherworldly guitars and electronic drums over a “wall of sound” production style to create an addictive mix of synth-influenced indie rock.

    Joining the bill are:
    SEAM play progressive folk-rock, with diverse influences from fellow Canadian acts City and Colour and Peter Katz, to Jason Mraz and Kings of Leon.

    GO DIANA reinterprets post-punk and alternative dance traditions for the new era of rock music.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketscene.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $12 ADV
    • Time: June 30, 2013, 8 p.m.
  • CAYUCUS

    CAYUCUS

    CAYUCUS, pronounced "ky-yook-us", is the new project from Zach Yudin, a young California native with a penchant for ecstatic harmonies and euphoric classic-pop arrangements. He makes supremely catchy and sunny indie-pop that comes shot through with old-school rock-and-roll popcraft, like what would happen if Local Natives were all serious Buddy Holly obsessives. The debut album , Bigfoot, is out now on Secretly Canadian.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketweb.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $11 ADV
    • Time: July 1, 2013, 8 p.m.
  • John Grant

    John Grant

    JOHN GRANT is an American singer/songwriter from Denver, Colorado and former lead vocalist with Bella Union cult favorites The Czars. When The Czars broke up, John moved up to New York for a change of scenery and found himself playing support to Flaming Lips and Midlake on a few shows. He recorded his 2010 debut solo album Queen Of Denmark with Midlake, and received critical acclaim, including being named Mojo magazine's Album of the Year. John is currently touring in support of his second solo effort, Pale Green Ghosts, released in Spring 2013.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketfly.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $15 ADV
    • Time: July 3, 2013, 8 p.m.
  • THE DUNWELLS

    THE DUNWELLS

    THE DUNWELLS rose from the pubs of Leeds, and play an exhilarating blend of English rock and American roots music. Striking an organic blend between acoustic and electric roots laced by luscious vocal harmonies by all five members, their songs and sound feel both bracingly fresh while at the same time as warm and familiar as a dear long-time friend. Their debut album, Blind Sighted Faith is a collection of eleven captivating, indelible songs of purpose and resolve that live free of easy categorization.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketfly.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $13.50 ADV
    • Time: July 9, 2013, 8:30 p.m.
  • Julia Holter w/ Jessica Pratt

    Julia Holter w/ Jessica Pratt

    Los Angeles composer/multi-instrumentalist JULIA HOLTER has forged a reputable identity in the contemporary music landscape by merging pop melodies with abstract composition. A true DIY composer, Holter cut her teeth releasing limited-run cassettes and CD-Rs for labels like Human Ear Music, Engraved Glass, and NNA Tapes. Julia is currently recording her follow-up to Ekstasis, her 2012 album that reflected the conventions of her classical training while also introducing pop structure, with an anticipated 2013 release on Domino Records.

    JESSICA PRATT is a supremely talented San Francisco-based singer and musician, self-described as “sexpervertin…born in a cave.” Pratt’s music is intricate, intimate, and contemporary yet seems as if it’s been cast from an earlier era. Pratt’s voice rumbles gently, lower and wiser than her scant 19 years; with patient, compelling and heart-wrenching songs whose hand-crafted lyrics fit near the flesh, as though some sort of celestial, terrestrial, wise elfin whispered them in your ear and then promptly left you to dream, both spooked and charmed.

    Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes, and online at Ticketfly.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $16.50 ADV / $18
    • Time: July 17, 2013, 8 p.m.
  • Gregory Alan Isakov

    Gregory Alan Isakov

    GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV is an indie-folk troubadour whose voice channels Paul Simon and whose songs combine the rootsy influence of Bruce Springsteen with the sharply-worded insight of Leonard Cohen.

    Isakov recorded The Weatherman, his third full-length album, in the cozy mountain town of Nederland, Colorado. The songs were tracked on analog gear and mixed to tape, resulting in a record that evokes the vintage sounds of its creator’s influences.

    The record will be released on July 9, three days into a summertime tour that will take this South Africa-born/Colorado-based traveler across the continent and into the Drake Underground on July 23rd.

    Advance tickets are available online now.

    • Venue: Underground
    • Type: Live
    • Cover: $12 ADV / $14
    • Time: July 23, 2013, 7 p.m.