The only difference between our festival and the two that came in first and second? A couple hundred thousand dollars.
Thanks for supporting independent music!
The only difference between our festival and the two that came in first and second? A couple hundred thousand dollars.
Thanks for supporting independent music!

Don’t let those hippies at the Vancouver Folk Festival win (as they do every year), vote for Music Waste as your favourite Vancouver festival.
And for those that didn’t watch them all, check out our promo videos written and acted by the city’s best comedians. Watch all six of them here.


Also, check out their review of the Friday night Music Waste show at the Astoria.



(EARLY SHOW)
Japandroids 10:00
Hermetic 9:15 - 9:45
World Club 8:30 - 9:00
(Glory Days will be accepting Music Waste passes subject to capacity)
Juvenile Hall performing at midnight
(Show starts at 9pm)
Jody Glenham
Steve Nelson
Fanshaw
Unreliable Narrator
The Abramson Singers
Analog Bell Service
Stefana Fratila
Terror!!
(in collaboration with Winniecooper.net and No More Strangers)
No Gold 11:30-12:00
Certain Breeds 10:45-11:15
Role Mach 10:00-10:30
(in collaboration with Night Shift)
Twin Crystals 12:30 - 1:00
Vapid 11: 45 - 12:15
Pompoir 11:00 - 11:30
No L.A. Kill 10:15 - 10:45
(Go Your Own Waste daytime show @ 3pm)
Bleating Hearts
DB Buxton
Ehren Salazar
(Early show)
Sun Wizard perform at 9:30pm
(Early Show - performances from 8pm until 9:30pm)
Solars
Glaciers
Tyr Umbach
(Performance by V.Vecker, Magneticring at 8pm)
Rebecca Brewer
Justin Gradin
Johnathon Syme
Heidi Nagtegaal

(Early show in collaboration with Bronx Cheer)
8pm - 10:30pm
Manhussy
Bronx Cheer
Sunday Service
Weekend Leisure
Pony Hunters
Sean Devlin + Friends
Ryan Steele
(with the Nightshift DJs)
Modern Creatures 1:15-1:45
Nu Sensae 12:30-1:00
White Lung 11:45-12:15
Needles & Pins 11:00-11:30
Ghost Bees 11:20
Timber Timbre 10:45
Rose Melberg & Kellerissa 10:00
Ian Wyatt & Jasper Baydala 9:15
Animal Names 12:30 - 1:00
Plus Perfect 11:45 - 12:15
Rudolf 11:00 - 11:30
Tyranahorse 10:15 - 10:45
(in collaboration with Far Away)
Cosmetics 11:30
Fine Mist 10:30
(in collaboration with Damaged Goods)
B-Lines 12:30 - 1:00
Mode Moderne 11:45 - 12:15
Sex Church 11:00 - 11:30
Timecopz 10:15 - 10:45
Andrea Lukic: WORPOR with live Shredders at 9pm!
(Go Your Own Waste show)
Sounds and videos by:
Addus Tolly
Scant Intone
Haunted Beard
Jessica Parsons
Coolee Coolee
Spectrum Interview
(Go Your Own Waste)
Early show: 6-9pm
Christopher Francis / SON
Ghosties
Adrian Teacher
Bleating Hearts
Faux Amis
(Go Your Own Waste show)
Blank Cinema
Wonderful Diving Horses
Michael Kyd
(Go Your Own Waste)
AndrewX3
Ashley Marie
Special Guest: Walter TV
Art, prizes, and music for Megaphone Magazine’s 1yr anniversary
DJ: Thomas Cunningham
Art by:
Ken Foster
Noel Plant
Laurie Marshall and more…

Hey Everyone,
The show at the Rickshaw will be ALL AGES. Tell your little sister!
Rickshaw Theater (254 E Hastings)
Shearing Pinx 12:20-1:00
It It 11:40-12:10
Tigerhead 11:00-11:30
Falcao & Monashee 10:20-10:50

Steve Louie is one of the most active band photographers in Vancouver. He’s covering the event for ChalkedUp.com. Check is flickr site here for Music Waste photos. He’s very quick to update it too.

Check out this podcast mix the blog Expressway To My Skull produced:
Vibes “Psychic” Psychic 7” (Not Not Fun) 2009
Wooden Shjips “Contact” Contact 12” (Mexican Summer) 2009
Little Girls “What We Did” Thrills 12” (Mexican Summer) 2009
Fresh and Onlys “Endless Love” s/t 7” (Chuffed) 2009
Wounded Lion “Pony People” s/t 7” (S-S) 2008
The Intelligence “Pony People” Fake Surfers LP (In The Red) 2009
The Beets “Happy But On My Way” Spit In The Face Of Those… LP (Captured Tracks) 2009
Timecopz “Already Gone” unreleased demo 2009
Defektors “Secret Trials” Secret Trials 7” (Nominal) 2008
Sex Church “Dead End” unreleased demo. To be released later this year on Sweet Rot
Modern Creatures “Divorce Yourself” s/t LP (Grotesque Modern) 2009
Twin Crystals “Two Girls” Two Girls 7” (Summer Lovers Unlimited) 2009
Shearing Pinx “The Kiss” Blood Klub 4-way split 7” (Isolated Now Waves/Thankless) 2009
Nu Sensae “Cut Throat Nine” one-sided 12” (Isolated Now Waves) 2008
Sex Negatives “Blindness” split w/Totally Ripped CS (Isolated Now Waves) 2009
Ahna “Water Damage” Blood Klub 4-way split 7” (Isolated Now Waves/Thankless) 2009
solars “Shadow” unreleased demo 2009
Totally Ripped “Pretty Lip Load” split w/Totally Ripped CS (Isolated Now Waves) 2009
Click here to download the mix.

Honey Lounge (455 Abbott St)
Gang Violence 12:30-1:00
Animal Bodies 11:45-12:15
Makeout Videotape 11:00-11:30
Peace 10:15 - 10:45
The Bourbon (50 W Cordova St)
Defecktors 11:30
Mt. Royal 10:30
Rickshaw Theater (254 E Hastings)
Shearing Pinx 12:20-1:00
It It 11:40-12:10
Tigerhead 11:00-11:30
Falcao & Monashee 10:20-10:50
Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway)
London Drugs 12:30 - 1:00
MT-40 11:45 - 12:15
Haunted Beard 11:00 - 11:30
Kidnapping 10:15 - 10:45
Techromancer 9:30 - 10:00
Funky Winker Beans (35 Hastings Street West)
The SSRIs 11:30 - 12:00
Collapsing Opposites 10:45 - 11:15
The Bloggers 10:00 - 10:30
Haunter 9:15 - 9:45
The Bash Brothers 8:30 - 9:00
The Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston Street)
(Go Your Own Waste)
Stefana Fratila
Life(Stream)
Doug Hoyer
Alena Manera
ART WASTE Mural Show @ Little Mountain Studios (195 E 26th Ave)
(Starts at 8pm)
Ben Jaques
Justin Gradin
Andrea Lukic
Keith Wecker
Robert Mearns
Julianne Claire



Cobalt Motor Inn (917 Main Street)
Two stages. Bands start at 10pm and go until 1am.
Sex Negatives
Totally Ripped
The Internet
Shipyards
Ahna
Ejaculation Death Rattle
Boogie Monster
yellowtheif
Shudder Gallery (433 Columbia Street)
Prophecy Sun performs at 9:00pm
Spectral Rhythms: Sean Weisgerber and Adam Dodd
Honey Lounge (455 Abbott St)
Adjective 12:00
Sex With Strangers 11:00
Petroleum By-Products 10:15
The Anza Club (3 W 8th Avenue)
(Doors at 9pm - ‘til late)
B.C.V.C.O. & Revelstoke
Goonies (108 E Hastings)
(Go Your Own Waste)
Kidnap Kids!
Chris-a-riffic
Aunts and Uncles
Wild Palms
Woolworm
Unreliable Narrator
