If levitating to the sounds of psychedelia isn’t your thing, fear not. This weekend also marks the 21st year of Music Waste, Vancouver’s "longest running volunteer-driven celebration of music and art,” according to their press release. From June 4th to 7th, a plethora of venues across East Vancouver will host musicians, artists and more as they showcase their great talents to the (relative) masses.
Formed in 1994 as retaliation against the now-defunct industry jock-rock festival that was New Music West, Music Waste puts the focus back on the underground, infamously Vancouver’s most fertile soil for some of our greatest exports. Waste alumni include the likes of White Lung, Apollo Ghosts, Ladyhawk, Japandroids and many more.
Katayoon Yousefbigloo will curate Art Waste, the visual art proponent of Music Waste, this year and Sara Wylie, featuring group and solo shows of over thirty members of Vancouver’s Visual Arts community.
As for the music, here’s a small sample platter of some of this year's tastiest acts: Soft Haze, Shawn Mrazek Lives!, Peace, NEEDS, J.P. Carter, Supermoon, Dirty Spells and many more.
Individual shows are $5 each, and all access passes are $15 plus tax. There are only 400 passes available, so get your shit together! You can find them at Red Cat, Neptoon, Audiopile and Zulu. For more information, visit www.musicwaste.ca
