Show Review: The Kills
The Kills at Citizen Vintage By: Amanda C. Stanhaus If you want to rock hard any day of the week, especially a Sunday, go see The Kills. They lived up to the high expectations I had set for them;...
View ArticleSharon Van Etten at Il Motore
By Caitlin Manicom In between songs Sharon Van Etten is a total goofball. While she’s playing her music though, her hypnotizing voice and earnest, almost invariably heartbreaking lyrics evoke anything...
View ArticleThe Wooden Sky: show review and Q & A
The Wooden Sky show review (February 28, 2012) By: Amanda C. Stanhaus There was a lot to celebrate Monday night at Sala Rossa—a goodbye, an impending record release and a birthday. Charlotte Cornfield...
View ArticleCharity Chan, Jean Derome, and Fred Frith at Casa del Popolo 05.02.12
Marc Montanchez Arriving at the Casa on the late side after blowing a tire 6 blocks away, there was still a good wait in the completely packed room before the show got under way. Not this reviewer’s...
View ArticleFIMAV 2012 In Review: Part 1
Pascal-Denis Lussier The 28th edition of Le Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) was held from May 17 to 20, presenting 19 concerts that spanned all definitions of the...
View ArticleFIMAV In Review: Part 2
The second installment in our four part series covering this year’s FIMAV festival. by Pascal Denis Lussier Maïkotron Unit with Stephen Haynes Michel Côté: clarinet, tenor sax, maïkotron; Pierre Côté:...
View ArticleErin Sexton, Susan Alcorn, & Andrea-Jane Cornell at Casa del Popolo
Erin Sexton This concert was scheduled for the day after the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival ended, underlining the fact that original music can’t be boxed-in by a calendar. I walked in for the final...
View ArticleFLYING LOTUS @ S.A.T.
Last Friday Flying Lotus sold out the S.A.T. on Saint-Catherine street in Montreal leaving a lineup of disappointed fans out in the cold. Psychedelic two-layered visual projections enhanced the music...
View ArticleDopethrone @ L’Absynthe
Dopethrone played in Montreal on October 20th So you’ve got an exam on Friday evening. Another on Monday morning. Shut up, I know YOU didn’t, I did. Physics hard up. The two days that some call...
View ArticleOm @ Il Motore
Om Once upon a time, man was blind. He saw not the walls that threatened to enclose him, and Montréalers were not immune to this malaise. And then, with one swift strike that lifted this veil of...
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