by Sean Orr | It starts today with a fitting schedule of some of Vancouver’s best experimental noise-rock, and ends with a basketball jam at Strathcona Park. It is this year’s Music Waste, wherein the city’s best underground artists, musicians, DJs, comedians, and creatives gather for what was originally a response to the stale industry wank-fest known as New Music Waste. Growing through accretion like Katamari Damacy, the fest has hooked up with regular promoters and allows others to Go Your Own Waste by by adding their previously scheduled gig to the line-up.

Wednesday sees the alliance between the Anza Club’s Psych Night and Music Waste as well as Fake Jazz at Honey and Lick. Thursday after the early Zoo Shop show, and I remind you that it is essential you create your own schedule, I’ll probably stay close to Lick to see the crushing combo of Baptists, Boogie Monster, and Ahna at Lick, or maybe next door for some thrashy Vapid and Juvenile Hall; and I’ll be popping over to Shudder to see Dan Siney’s new work. Friday offers a collaboration with Damaged Goods at the Astoria with synth trash outfit MT-40 headlining a solid bill of Myths, Animal Bodies, and Muscles. After that across the street is noise couple Koban, classic punx with Needles+Pins, and one of Vancouver’s best, Makeout Videotape taking the stage at a ripe time of 2am. The Winnie Cooper DJs will be there. It also looks like the dub-step oriented GYOW show at W2 will be going late. Basketball!!

Saturday is probably the hardest day, but it looks like it will start off in the afternoon on Mount Pleasant as there are successive shows at Neptoon, Redcat, and Gene. Also on the hill are shows at Little Mountain and Lucky’s Comics. You could stay in Uptown for two shows at the Anza (including Balkan-tinged Mesamazing) and then end the night with Glory Days at the Biltmore or head downtown for a BBQ at Goody. If you’re already wasted you could do worse than to just walk over to the Astoria and park yourself there. If you’re able bodied then head to the Zoo Shop, The Lion’s Den (LDs), and probably to the Fauxbalt for a dreamy set of sounds from Milky Way, Cowards, Walter TV, Gang Violence, and World Club. I’ll be volunteering at Funky Winkerbeans that night.

I’ve posted the entire schedule below.

Passes are sold out but all shows are only $5

Schedule: http://musicwaste.tumblr.com/schedule

//WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2ND

\\Anza Club – Psychic Waste
V. Vecker Ensemble – 12:00am
Black Wizard – 11:00pm
Fortress – 10:30pm
White Umbrella – 9:30pm
Honey – Fake Jazz/Waste
Nurse – 11:00pm
Flash Palace – 10:30pm
Double-doux – 10:00pm
Natural – 11:30pm
Nihilist Party – 12:00pm
Kalki – 12:15pm
Angel Lust – 12:40 pm

\\Lick – Fake Jazz/Waste
Nam Shub – 11:45 pm
Gross Lords – 12:30 pm
Eugene Chadbourne – 10-11:30 pm

//THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD

\\Princeton
The Abramson Singers – 11pm
Moonshiner – 10pm
The Magician & The Gates Of Love – 9pm

\\Honey
Vapid – 12:00 am
Juvenile Hall – 11:30 pm
Phonecalls – 11:00 pm
Crystal Swells – 10:30 pm
Keep Tidy- 10:00 pm

\\The Cobalt
Dbl Dragon – 12:30
Seven Nines & Tens – 11:45pm
Balacade – 11:00pm
Stephana Fratilla – 10:15

\\Lick
Baptists – midnight
Boogie Monster – 11:15 pm
Ahna – 10:30 pm
Joyce Collingwood – 9:45 pm
Hidden Towers – 9:15 pm

\\Zoo Zhop
Canaries – 9:00 pm
Half Chinese – 8:00 pm
Collapsing Opposites – 7:00 pm
Bleating Hearts – 6:00 pm

\\Chinacloud
Sketch and Improv – Hosted by Cam MacLeod
Sister Act
Bronx Cheer
ManHussy
Kevin Lee and Emmett Hall
Hip Bang
Colin Cowan
Pump Trollley
Canadian Content
Featuring a performance by No Gold

\\Shudder Gallery
Show Title: “New Work by Dan Siney”

\\R&R Studio
Show Title: “Wasps Nests”
Caitlin Livingston, Stephanie Trudell, Amie G., Ben Jacques, Justin Patterson

\\Chinacloud (5pm opening)
Show title : Cloud Creatures
Artists: Chris Leitch, Mike Leitch, Nick Fabin, Bradley Messer, Carla Gilday, Katie Weldon, Brent Hodge, Kyle Peppler and Cleo Lewis.

\\Backroom of Shine – Wild Zero
With DJs Cam Dales and Tyler Fedchuck

\\GYOW – The Toast Collective – Show at 8pm
Actuator: An Evening of Solo Experimental/Improvised Music
648 Kingsway (at Fraser)
Soloists:
Poib Fehr – guitar
Russell Sholberg – bass
Darren Williams – tenor saxophone
Whip Of The UFO – noise/things
Each musician will be playing a solo set of (improvised) music

//FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH

\\Princeton
Apollo Ghosts – 12:00am
Plus Perfect – 11:00pm
Shane Turner Overdrive – 10:00pm
Brazillian Money – 9:30pm

\\Brandiz
TBA – 12:00am
The Shilohs – 11:00pm
Slam Dunk – 10:00pm

\\The Cobalt
Petroleum By-Product – 1:00am
Cosmetics – 12:00am
Fine Mist – 11:00
Soft Focus – 10:00pm

\\Astoria – Wasted Goods
MT 40 1:00am
Myths – 12:00am
Animal Bodies – 11:00pm
Muscles – 10:00pm with the
Damaged Goods DJs

\\Goody
Makeout Videotape 2:00am
Needles//Pins – 1:00am
Koban – 12:00am
With the Winnie Cooper DJs

\\GYOW – Little Mountain Studios (8PM) – Err On: The Side Of Caution
Ehren Salazar
Eryn Holbrook
Erin Graves
Aaron Read

\\GYOW – The Toast Collective (7-10PM)
Mt. Career
Cuckolds

\\GYOW – VIVO (8PM)
Von Bingen
Souns
Konx Ohm Pax
Holzkopf
Kvik
Robert Pederson
Filip Gorecki

\\Chinacloud
Comedy Waste Video Contest – Hosted by Ryan Biel
Judges: Bob Kronbauer, Paul Anthony, Taz Van rassel

\\156 West Hastings
Artists: Good Idea group show

\\Blim
Show Title: “What Does Info Want”
Artists: Kate Henderson,
Elee Kraljii Gardiner,
Jessica Alice Gnyp,
Rebecca LaMarre,
Rebecca-Ellen Farrell,
John Mavin + Derek Walter
Denver Lynxleg
Curated by Emiliano Sepulveda + Ray Hsu
Featuring a performance by Falcao & Monashee (Performance at 9:30pm)

\\GYOW – W2 Building – 151 W Cordova
Starts at 1am
Basketball
Speakerbruiser Rob
Calamalka
Namshub
$2 with a festival pass

//SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH

\\GYOW – Biltmore – Glory Days
Tough Guys and Girls Cry – 12am
DJs My!Gay!Husband! & Sincerely Hana

\\Funky Winkerbeans
Kellarissa – 1am
Fanshaw – 12am
Sleep Holiday -11pm
Shipyards – late

\\The Cobalt
No More Strangers & Music Waste present…
World Club – 1am
Gang Violence – 12am
Walter TV -11pm
Cowards -10pm
Milky Way – 9pm
With the winniecooper.net DJs

\\Astoria
Lord Beginner – 1am
Sun Wizard – 12am
Witch Water -11pm
Friendship and the Fawn – 10pm

\\Zoo Zhop
Timecopz – 9pm
Din Din Dak – 8pm
Boy Voyage – 7pm

\\GYOW – The Anza Club
Mezamazing – 11pm
Knifey Spooney – 10pm
Booby Trap – 9pm

\\The Anza Club
BARTEL – 11:30pm
Vincent Parker – Midnight
Basketball – 1am

\\Goodie Parking Lot (Alley behind Hawks & Hastings) – BBQ Your Own Waste – 4:30 – 7:30pm
Listening Party
Oh No! Yoko
Eeek!
With the winniecooper.net DJs

\\Gene Café – Free
Magneticring – 4pm
GAK – 3:15pm

\\Red Cat Records – Free
Hermetic – 4pm
Peace – 3pm
Tight Solid – 2pm

\\Neptoon Records – Free
Student Teacher – 2:45pm
Ex-Friends – 2:15pm
Cat Attack – 1:45pm
Los Tycoons – 1pm

\\Chinacloud
Stand-up – Hosted by Craig Anderson
Charlie Demers
Graham Clark
Dave Shumka
Sean Devlin
Alicia Tobin
Jimmy Barnes
Featuring solo performances by members of Analog Bell Service

\\LD’s
Show Title: “Blow Up”
Artists: Melanie Coles, Kate Henderson, Lyndsay Pomerantz, Mairin Cooley, Rob Ondzik, Zain Burgess, Emiliano Sepulveda, Aja Rose, Josh Rose. Curated by Melanie Coles and Kate Henderson
Featuring performances by Spring Break and Prophecy Sun (Performances at 9pm & 10pm)

\\Little Mountain Gallery
Show title: “RETURN TO THE 36 CHAMBERS: Returns”
Bobby Mathieson, Dan Snelgrove, Sol Sallee, Erin Marranca, Andy Dixon, Robert Mearns, Adam Dodd, Keith Wecker, Meghan Ancheta, Ben Jacques, Bita Joudaki, Steve Gilmet, Abigail Fernandes, David Detenbeck, Paul Simons, Sally H, Justin Alm, Morgan Mameni, Steve Nevets, Merida Anderson, Lindsey Hampton, Candice Mackenzie Storer ( Hailfax), Justin Dale Patterson, Ian William Prentice, Rachel D White, Alex Cieslik, Erik Lyon, Aaron Read, Chad Murray, Ehren Salazar, Brian Tong, Ian Edmonds, Michael P Fikaris (Australia), Tevis Bateman, Alexander Cho, Ben Frey
Music by: DJ REVISE and DJ BOBBYGOODTIMES

\\Lucky’s Comics
Show Title” “Treats for Faceballs”
Artists: Dusty Peas: Jamie Q & James Kirkpatrick

\\GYOW – Parking Lot Pimping
3200 block of Gardner Court @ BCIT
ALLIES! (formally The Gaze)
LoveBomb DUO
SuperCassette
DJ Retel (feat. Killa Cam, MC CHINO)
Plus a BBQ with delicious BBQ-ables for sale.

//SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH

\\Grandview Bowling Lanes (Bowl Your Own Waste) 1-4pm
Twin Crystals
Role Mach
Apollo Ghosts
Cat Attack
Chris-a-riffic
[Music Waste passes get free shoe rentals!!!]

\\WASTE JAM at Strathcona Park
Presented by CiTR & rapvsweden
BBQ and 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament
DJs Cam Dales, Ethnic Friends, Cherchez LaFemme, Tyler Fedchuck

//MONDAY, JUNE 7TH

\\Honey – Ice Cream Social
With DJs Trevor Risk, Cam Dales, & Tyler Fedchuck.

NOTE: All festival passes used at GYOW shows are subject to capacity and all set times and lineups are subject to change.