Posted by Greg Lozoff
This Week In Montreal
It’s not the busiest week for shows this week in Montreal but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few really exciting concerts worthy of checking out. Starting off the week tonight at Il Motore is Boston based folk singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler and on Wednesday Real Estate and Twin Shadow will take the stage at the same venue. Also playing this week are Cass McCombs, Play Guitar, Dissapears and Bad Weather. Here are all the highlights for the week… Read more…
This Week In Montreal
There’s a lot going on in the city this week starting with three very worthy shows tonight. The biggest one would be The Black Keys and Cage The Elephant at the Bell Center, but if your looking for something a little more low key you should check out 100 Monkeys at La Sala Rossa or The Wooden Birds at Casa Del Popolo, who will be sharing the stage with Montreal’s own Folly & The Hunter. Sala Rossa is the place to be this week, with Kurt Vile, Woods, Cold Cave and the Dirtbombs all playing at the quaint St Laurent venue. Here’s all the highlights for the week: Read more…
Polaris Music Prize Announces Short List
It’s that time of year again! The short-list for this year’s Polaris Music Prize has just been announced. The prize this year, which will be awarded to the creators of the best Canadian album of the year, based solely on artistic merit and not taking into account genre or sales history, is $30,000 (a raise from the $10,000 awarded in past years). Each of the nine runners-up will also receive $2000 this year, courtesy of Slaight Music. Read more…
U2 Take Over The City This Weekend
U2 is coming to Montreal this weekend and whether you like them or not it’s a big deal. Why you ask? Because they’ve sold 160,000 total tickets for both nights. That’s 80,000 tickets per night, which is more than three times the amount of people that can fit into the Bell Center on any given night. So what is a band to do when they have more fans that can fit into a city’s biggest arena? They build their own stadium of course! Read more…
This Week In Montreal
With the Jazz Fest wrapping up tonight, it appears things are going to slow down this week in Montreal. After the B-52s and Rich Aucoin close out the festival with free shows tonight at the Scene TD and the Scene Bell in downtown Montreal, there are a select few shows that we feel are worth checking out this week. Sam Mickens at Sala Rossa on Wednesday is a show that you should definitely consider, along with the Callers show on Friday at Casa Del Popolo and Pink Moth on Sunday at Casa. Here’s our full list of highlights for the week: Read more…
Handsome Furs – Cabaret Mile End – 25.06.11
“Variety is the spice of life.” A total cliché, sure – but true, nonetheless. Handsome Furs, USA Out of Vietnam and Tops came together last humid and hazy Saturday night to prove right this old adage to a sweaty throng of young Montrealers, and to flip my world upside down. After gracelessly falling up my stoop, arms flailing and groceries flying in the a.m., smashing my shins and breaking the stairs machine at the gym that afternoon and running out of cigarettes by early evening I fully expected my Saturday night to include my getting hit by a bus or a tornado touching down on top of Mile End Cabaret. What I wasn’t prepared for was a hell of a good time and a show evocative of the psychedelic chocolate river boatride from the original “Willy Wonka”. Read more…
This Week In Montreal
Montrealers should really feel lucky this week. Let’s face it, how many times do we have Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Peter Frampton and Kaki King playing at the same time as Hey Ocean!, The Dears, White Denim, Mazes, Jaga Jazzist, The Roots and Weezer. The Jazz Fest takes full swing this week with a variety of amazing shows going on all over the city. You may have trouble deciding what to see this week due to the volume of great shows but we hope to make things a little easier by giving you our highlights for the week. 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…
This Week In Montreal
Festivals galore! While this year’s Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival may be coming to an end this week with performances by Chad VanGaalen, The Strange Boys, Dirty Beaches, D’Eon and more, this week also marks the beginning of this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival. And what better way to kick off this year’s fest than with back to back performances by the legendary Prince at Metropolis. But don’t get too excited unless you already have tickets because both nights are sold out. There are also some great smaller shows going on this week at Club Lambi, Il Motore and Cabaret Mile End so be sure to check them out as well. Here’s all the highlights from a very busy week in Montreal. Read more…
