
Enough time has passed that Kids in the Hall fans can forgive Dave Foley for taking a straight job on this very mainstream sitcom following...
Enough time has passed that Kids in the Hall fans can forgive Dave Foley for taking a straight job on this very mainstream sitcom following...
Stetson is a new Montreal resident, having been lured there by his work with Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre; his C.V. includes stints with T...
The potential was great: an all-star band curated by Socalled that included Final Fantasys Owen Pallett, Bell Orchestres Stef Schneider an...
Such is the trust in Pop Montreals curatorial skills that this aged doo-wop group, known primarily for their affiliation with Frank Zappa,...
Where else but Montreal would a porn theatre be packed with hundreds of people at one-thirty in the morning on a weeknight to hear Neil Youn...
These eight brass blood brothers are definitely horn-y, as they charmed their way through a half-hour on-stage soundcheck by chatting up the...
Kevin Martin enjoys extreme frequencies: ear-piercing treble frequencies and bass that shakes the venues foundations. Hes also one of the...
The Holy Fuck front-man stepped back into solo mode with music for four a.m. drives which wasnt necessarily what we wanted to hear at ten...
Feist once pointed out that "the saddest part of a broken heart isnt the ending so much as the start. Montreal singer/songwriter Angela De...
Success does not define an artist; failure does. Instead of moving from one triumph after another, the ability to bounce back from a facepla...
Montreal has more than its share of grand streets, each suited to a particular purpose. Ste. Catherine is the everymans consumerist artery...
Since their inception in 1981, Sonic Youths creativity has stemmed from their copious curiosity about all sorts of subjects: first wave pun...
White mans burden sometimes thats the only way to wake up the West to atrocities in Africa, or anywhere else. Its the approach that dir...
Where else but Paris could inspire 18 directors to compose five-minute shorts that serve as individual love letters? Albeit some of them are...
To some, Nardwuar the Human Serviette (born John Ruskin) is the greatest pop culture historian in North America, with an intense attention t...
When a book titled The Top 100 Canadian Albums hits the shelves, the typically Canadian thing to do is to bitch about what didn't make the l...
As an 80s suburbanite raised on mainstream radio and drawn to garage rock, it was Ray Condo who first seduced me into loving country music....
Mary Hansen 1966-2002Stereolab keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Mary Hansen, 36, was killed when struck by a car while riding her bicyc...
Gloria Esperanza Montoya is a radiant, striking woman likely never more so than when she speaks with immense pride of her only son, Rolf K...
The suburbs suck our souls, offer false illusions of community and are unsustainable on several levels. Is this news to anyone anymore? And...