Long Winter is entering it’s 4th season and we’re looking for passionate artists, creators and volunteers to help make this year’s our best yet. The dates for this year are: Friday, November 13, Saturday, December 12, Saturday, January 16, Friday, February 19, and Friday, March 18.
Read MoreEven though they’re set to release their Never Come Down 12-inch March 31 via One Big Silence, Elsa didn’t mind reaching into the archives to commit “In Waves” – a song from the same sessions as their 2013 I Do EP – to wax on the March instalment (LW-005) of Long Winter’s split 7-inch series, available free to the first 250 guests through the doors at the Great Hall on March 13. In this questionnaire, singer/guitarist Jonathan Rogers explains the origins of the song and tells us about a near-fatal winter experience.
Read MoreTogether with vocalist Alice Hansen, Charles Blazevic makes ruminative, nocturnal pop music in You’ll Never Get To Heaven. But on March 13, Blazevic brings his solo instrumental project Dreamsploitation to the final Long Winter of the season. In this questionnaire, Blazevic explains how “Accent Blue“ – available on our March split 7-inch with Elsa, free to the first 250 guests through the doors at the Great Hall – was inspired by solo piano music.
Read MoreOver the past 12 years, Blocks Recording Club facilitated an environment of local labour and love. Started in 2003 as a cassettes and mini-CDs-only label operating out of the Tranzac Club, its central goal was simultaneously modest and idealistic: to forge a co-operative economy of nurture and engagement that united around local talent. What resulted was a network of artists that banded skills and resources together to collaboratively produce, physically assemble, and distribute more than 70 recordings. But as years have passed and members have become involved with other projects, the club has slowly dissolved from the hub of enthusiasm it long constituted.
Read MoreIn the middle of a month-long residency at Hirut Ethiopian Restaurant, Toronto composer Brodie West’s avant-calypso ensemble Eucalyptus is set to take the stage in the Great Hall’s Conversation Room (11:00 p.m.) at the Long Winter Fair, where we’ll also be distributing a limited run of our February splits featuring Eucalyptus and Crosss. In this questionnaire, West explains how “Fascination In Sound” developed from a direct-to-phone melody recording to the track it has become – the namesake of Eucalyptus’s new 10-inch EP, released Feb. 9 on Healing Power Records.
Read MoreWhile Toronto/Halifax/Montreal’s heavy riffing, shape shifting Crosss won’t release its follow-up to 2013’s Obsidian Spectre until later this year, the group has still managed to quietly discharge newer work into the ether via a couple of split releases over the course of the lull. In this questionnaire, singer/guitarist Andy March explains the evolution of Crosss’s “Bones Brigade” and lifts the veil on Crosss’ aesthetic reference points.
Read MoreAfter releasing Faucet on Healing Power Records last February, Bile Sister – the swampy avant-pop band Julia Reich originally put together to perform her home recordings in live settings – has spent the past year germinating into a slightly mutated version of its former self. We asked Reich to fill out our 7” Survey and get us up to speed.
Read MoreThe voices of Toronto’s DIY music scene carried discordantly throughout 2014
Read MoreNick Storring has appeared on Long Winter lineups before in his capacity as a member of Picastro and Bespoken, but will return this Friday (Jan. 9) to give a solo performance. After releasing two albums in the final quarter of 2014 (Gardens – an informal tribute to Charles Stepney – in October, then Endless Conjecture in November) Nick Storring’s sounds are also set to appear on yet another new recording: our January seven-inch, also featuring Bile Sister. In this questionnaire, Storring details some of his recent undertakings and explains how his process has developed over time.
Read MoreAdrienne Crossman breaks down cartoons, work, and life
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