Toronto’s popular ALL CAPS! Island Festival was just announced to return for its fifth and final year this summer. The all-ages festival will take place August 10th & 11th at Artscape Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Island. The festival will boast a diverse line-up of independent music acts from Cananda and beyond, in addition to “art installations, games, swimming, bonfires, and summertime fun in a beautiful, intimate environment. The festival also has bragging rights on being the only music festival in Toronto to offer camping within its limits.
You can buy festival passes and elusive camping passes staring next Tuesday, June 25th online at TicketFly, or in store at Rotate This (801 Queen St. W.) and Soundscapes (572 College St.), with prices increasing on July 9.
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Music Line-Up:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10
The Blow (Brooklyn, NY / Khaela Maricich’s electro-pop-meets-performance-art project / set to release their first album in 6 years!)
Special guest TBA (A band beloved by the Wavelength community)
biZzarh (Ajax, ON / teenage female hip-hop trio / underground buzz + future stars / championed by Ben Cook of Fucked Up & Yacht Club)
Shotgun Jimmie (Brandon, MB / classic indie-rock love poetry / Polaris long-list robbery / one-man-band goes full band on tour!)
Beekeeper (Vancouver, BC / delightfully spazzy “indie post-pop power trio”)
ev ree wuhn (Toronto, ON / fractured electro-soul from the Flying Lotus school)
Most People (Toronto, ON / pastoral electro pop built for the Island life / Wavelength 2013 Artist Incubator participant)
Unfinished Business (Toronto, ON / pre-teen all-girl punk rockouts!)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11
Rich Aucoin (Halifax, NS / ecstatic, participatory one-man dance party! / Winner of the inaugural 2012 Prism Prize for “Brian Wilson is A.L.I.V.E.”)
catl. (Toronto, ON / the west end’s favourite rowdy juke-joint blues-punk duo)
Beliefs (Toronto, ON / Hand Drawn Dracula / heavy droney shoegaze guitar rock)
Elfin Saddle (Montreal, QC / Constellation Records / experimental world folk trio)
Eons (Toronto, ON / members of Bruce Peninsula & Poor Pilgrim Island Show founders play quiet songs)
Pachamama (Toronto, ON / drums and chants from Petra Glynt’s Alex MacKenzie + Not the Wind, Not the Flag’s Brandon Valdivia)
Watershed Hour (Whitby, ON / ’90s indie punk played by women born in the ’90s)
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Jeremy Schipper is an intern at Toronto Standard. You can follow him on Twitter at @jeromeoschipps.
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