8 entries found for "sruti"
Joe Lally – Casa del Popolo – 13.11.11
On Sunday night, Casa del Popolo hosted Joe Lally – former Fugazi member, Alden Penner (formerly of the Unicorns) and Helen Money. Our own Sruti was there, and has all the details you need to experience the show yourself. Read more…
Real Estate + Twin Sister @ Il Motore – 20.07.11
There are certain bands that can add to the soundtrack of your summer life, and last Wednesday, the good folks at Blue Skies Turn Black gave a taste of four possibilites. The first, a Lee Hazelwood inspired Dent May, the second, aspiring psychadelic punk rockers, Lost Boy ?, the third, the haunting music of Twin Sister, and then finally, the pretty surf pop of Real Estate. Read more…
Cults – Il Motore – 19.06.11
Cults first appeared on the internet map, in the form of a vague and informal bandcamp website. Let this be a lesson to all you casual jammers – a small bandcamp website that’s meant to hold a sample of some of the fun recordings you do with your friends, might slowly come to be picked up by a blog here, a blog there, and eventually, the blog (pitchfork, I guess), and you will suddenly find yourself touring the continent. Read more…
Junior Boys + Miracle Fortress – La Sala Rossa – 11.06.11
Miracle Fortress is back! And playing shows at that. Having recently released Was I the Wave (yes, it is quite good, go give it a listen) – Montreal’s favourite ginger, Graham Van Pelt and co are taking to the stage again. They come to you with steady beats, disco lights, introspective lyrical musings, boyish glee, and a great degree of adorable modesty. Read more…
Cheap Thrills Celebrates 40th Anniversary
It’s been 40 years, and on Metcalfe, between Sherbrooke and De Maissoneuve, still stands everybody’s favourite local record store: Cheap Thrills. And they’re celebrating their fourth decade of existence, with an exhibit at Casa Del Popolo, from June 1st to the 30th as a part of the Suoni per Il Popolo festival. This is very good news as it combines two very cool things – one of my favourite Montreal festivals, and the celebration of an integral institution in Montreal’s music scene. Read more…
Surfer Blood + …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – La Tulipe – 01.05.11
First closest day to real live Montreal summer and I walk into a terribly empty room. La Tulipe, a venue usually suited for bands that have found that they’ve gone a little popular among the unpopular crowd, is now scarce, with a decent set up at the merch table, and a local act happily tearing up the stage. Read more…
Hunx And His Punx – La Sala Rossa – 26.04.11
Tuesday afternoon, I walk in to start my usual two-hour college radio show (here’s the plug: tune in to Weird Era, Tuesdays from 2pm-4pm, on CJLO.com: 1690AM). Here’s the second plug. Right before my show, my friend Kelly Kay (who I should note is fairly cool) hosts her show Cut Your Hair and Get a Job. So I walk into the station, and the first thing I ask Kelly is, “Hey, what is this?” because whatever she’s playing is in the middle of jamming some solid rockabilly guitar. She calls it Hunx and His Punx, and the limited social square of my brain clicks, and I remember that they are planning a show that very night. Read more…
Beach Fossils + Craft Spells – La Sala Rossa – 19.04.11
Beach Fossils are an American, Brooklyn-based, Indie rock band that has, (unsurprisingly) garnered comparisons as a less frantic sister alongside the recent Wavve of its lo-fi brethren. But before we tuck this band away in a list of bands that the internet (the Authorities, whatever) are starting to say all sound the same – let’s maybe take a moment to think about what we like about these bands. Furthermore, if stubborn reverberation, defiantly plucking at strings, and quietly conversing with the audience through a series of melodic vocals is wrong – than neither Beach Fossils, nor Tuesday night’s Sala Rossa’s crowd want to be right. Just look at them! Pleasantly cradling away to paced drums, and almost consciously ignorant to inaudible vocals. This is a date night. Read more…
