Seven acts worth seeing at Canadian Music Week

There are more than 1,000 bands in town for Canadian Music Week, but here are a handful you really should try to see. See the full schedule at cmw.net/music. Operators. The sad, sudden demise of Handsome Furs two years ago left a gaping hole in the Canadian rock ’n’ roll landscape, so it’s exciting to see guitarist/vocalist Dan Boeckner with his brand-spankin’ new trio, Operators. These will be the band’s first Canadian dates. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina Ave.), midnight. Brody Dalle. The ex-Distillers frontwoman and all-around cool customer has been unusually silent since her underrated sorta-solo debut as Spinnerette in 2009. Her latest, take-no-prisoners solo album Diploid Love is one of 2014’s most highly anticipated new releases. Wednesday at the Horseshoe Tavern (370 Queen St. W.), 11 p.m. Owen Pallett. Since he last released a solo album, the Toronto composer, arranger and baroque electro-pop auteur’s profile has grown; he was recently nominated for an Oscar with the Arcade Fire’s Will Butler for the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s Her. Forthcoming album In Con- flict looks to be one of 2014’s biggest indie releases. Saturday at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth Ave.), 9:30 p.m. Basecamp. A sleekly futuristic electro-R&B trio from Nashville, fond of both easy melodies and bone-rattling bass and a buzz band at South by Southwest in March. Thursday at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor St. W.), 10 p.m., and Saturday at the Garrison (1197 Dundas St. W.), 12:45 a.m. No Age. Blissed-out California noise-punk. Sweet and shoegaze-y sometimes, hair-raisingly raucous and abrasive at others. Friday at Hard Luck (772 Dundas St. W.), midnight, and Saturday at Mod Club (722 College St.), midnight. Uncut. Perennially overlooked in the pantheon of great contemporary Toronto indie acts, these dour post-punk misanthropes are one of the city’s finest guitar bands and a hot live act, to boot. Last year’s Infinite Repeats was typically excellent. Thursday at the Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen St. W.), 11 p.m. Biblical. Toronto is chockablock with Next Big Things these days, but this crushing heavy-psych behemoth is the real deal and its aptly titled new LP, Monsoon Season, is causing quite a stir. Serious live pros, too. Saturday at the Mod Club, 10 p.m.