News Radio: The Complete Series

Published Oct 30, 2008

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...

Colin Stetson

Published Oct 28, 2008

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...

SoCalled

Published Oct 28, 2008

The potential was great: an all-star band curated by Socalled that included Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett, Bell Orchestre’s Stef Schneider an...

Persuasions

Published Oct 28, 2008

Such is the trust in Pop Montreal’s curatorial skills that this aged doo-wop group, known primarily for their affiliation with Frank Zappa,...

Lil Andy and the Ideal Lovers

Published Oct 28, 2008

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...

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Published Oct 28, 2008

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...

The Bug

Published Oct 28, 2008

Kevin Martin enjoys extreme frequencies: ear-piercing treble frequencies and bass that shakes the venue’s foundations. He’s also one of the...

Brian Borcherdt

Published Oct 28, 2008

The Holy Fuck front-man stepped back into solo mode with music for four a.m. drives — which wasn’t necessarily what we wanted to hear at ten...

Angela Desveaux Struggles With Love

Published Aug 25, 2008

Feist once pointed out that "the saddest part of a broken heart isn’t the ending so much as the start.” Montreal singer/songwriter Angela De...

Gonzales, International Man of Mystery

Published May 16, 2008

Success does not define an artist; failure does. Instead of moving from one triumph after another, the ability to bounce back from a facepla...

Plants and Animals’ Parc Life

Published Feb 19, 2008

Montreal has more than its share of grand streets, each suited to a particular purpose. Ste. Catherine is the everyman’s consumerist artery...

Sonic Youth Time Takes Its Crazy Toll

Published Dec 20, 2007

Since their inception in 1981, Sonic Youth’s creativity has stemmed from their copious curiosity about all sorts of subjects: first wave pun...

The Devil Came On Horseback Anne Sunderberg and Ricki Stern

Published Nov 23, 2007

White man’s burden — sometimes that’s the only way to wake up the West to atrocities in Africa, or anywhere else. It’s the approach that dir...

Paris Je T'aime Various Directors

Published Nov 23, 2007

Where else but Paris could inspire 18 directors to compose five-minute shorts that serve as individual love letters? Albeit some of them are...

Nardwuar the Human Serviette Almost Famous

Published Nov 21, 2007

To some, Nardwuar the Human Serviette (born John Ruskin) is the greatest pop culture historian in North America, with an intense attention t...

Cream of the North List

Published Oct 30, 2007

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...

Ray Condo And The Hardrock Goners Ray Condo And The Hardrock Goners

Published Oct 30, 2007

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....

Farewell to Stereolab's Mary Hansen and The Clash's Joe Strummer

Published Oct 04, 2007

Mary Hansen 1966-2002Stereolab keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Mary Hansen, 36, was killed when struck by a car while riding her bicyc...

The Acorn Family Affairs

Published Sep 17, 2007

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...

Radiant City Gary Burns and Jim Brown

Published Aug 17, 2007

The suburbs suck our souls, offer false illusions of community and are unsustainable on several levels. Is this news to anyone anymore? And...