St Patrick's Day Murder - Get ready SSM because Murder Murder on St. Patrick's Day is first degree

We are very excited to welcome back Murder Murder for yet another St. Patrick’s Day bash. Last year was so much fun we had to bring these boys back in again. Northern Ontario’s Murder Murder are a six-piece string band with suitcase percussion who create a unique blend of bluegrass and outlaw country. The band takes “rich down-home vocals and churns them with a brand of gothic that is as catchy as it is intriguing; audiences will be swept away by not only the band’s musical talent, but the web of tragedy and tension that the songs spin.” They will be joined by Montreal’s Street Meat – a Rockabilly/Gypsy Jass Bluegrass band. This is going to be an amazing show and celebrating St Patrick’s Day moves it to next level awesome Get your tickets early. Don’t push your Irish luck.

Murder Murder is returning for another St Patrick's Day bash - get your tickets online early.

Calling all fish - this Saturday we celebrate the greatest of the signs - all those Pisces get in free and get a free drink. John Yun is spinning the night so come on out and celebrate.

This Saturday night, February 17th at LopLops - tickets on sale at www.loplops.com

The Wooden Sky - Can't wait for this show next weekend - get your tickets at www.loplops.com today and don't be disappointed.

Come and hang with these boys tonight at the Legendary Loplops Lounge #legendaryloplops

Tonight’s the kick off to our Zodiac Parties - if this your month - no cover and a free drink. DJ Seith will be on stage tonight.

The Legendary Loplops Lounge opens this Friday for the 2018 season. Jay Case & Frank Deresti play Friday and our first Zodiac party in almost 12 years.

Looking forward to having The Wooden Sky come back and play our stage Get your tickets today. #legendaryloplops

The title of The Wooden Sky’s fifth full-length album is an abridged quote from Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune: “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” It’s a phrase that seems especially apt in 2017, as many of us are still reeling from the previous year. For Gavin Gardiner, the frontman of the Toronto-based indie rock band, the way to understand and reconcile these unknowns — from oil pipelines and refugee crises to his own family’s personal history— is through songwriting. “It’s how I filter a lot of things that come in,” says Gardiner, as he walks through the residential streets of Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood. “For better or for worse, it’s how I deal with things and how I communicate my feelings.” Swimming in Strange Waters is Gardiner trying to make sense of the world. The band (made up of Gardiner, multi-instrumentalists Simon Walker and Andrew Wyatt, violinist Edwin Huizinga and drummer Andrew Kekewich) started writing and recording demos in a small farmhouse in rural Quebec in January 2015, but then put them aside as they embarked on a year-long tour in support of their previous album, Let’s Be Ready. When they resumed work on the album in March 2016, Gardiner says the band caught a severe case of “demoitis”, a condition wherein “you fall in love with the scrappiness of the demos.” So rather than completely re-working them, they decided to record the album in the same way as the demos: in Gardiner’s home studio, using old tape machines and live off the floor. The resulting album is a sonic maelstrom that sees the band exploring unchartered waters, where textural psychedelia inspired by the Paisley Underground movement melds into quiet, acoustic cyclical guitar melodies, before once again transforming into a bombastic, Johnny Cash-esque rally against the XL Keystone pipeline in Canada. While Let’s Be Ready found the Wooden Sky writing a pure “rock and roll” album, Swimming in Strange Waters sees the band experimenting once again. “I feel like we’re back on track,” says Gardiner.

Come celebrate your sign with your friends as Loplops brings back an oldie but a goodie with the Zodiac Party Series. The last Saturday of each month come on out and celebrate. If it is your sign then you don't pay cover AND you get a free birthday drink on the house. January 27th - Aquarious (water) February 24th - Pisces (the fish) March 31st - Aries (the ram) April 28th - Taurus (the bull) May 26th - Gemini (the twin) June 23rd - Cancer (the crab) July 28th - Leo (the lion) August 25th - Virgo (the Maiden) September 29th - Libra (the scales) October 27th - Scorpio (the scorpion) November 24th - Sagittarious (the centaur) December 29th - Capricorn (the mountain goat) Each month we will have a theme and a drink special so please keep coming back for he updates.