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This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

With the end of the 12th edition of the annual MUTEK Festival comes the beginning of the this year’s Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, which celebrates great music in all of it’s various forms. Playing as a part of the festival this week are Molly Sweeney, Tonstartssbandht, Grimes, Keiji Haino, Silent Land Time Machine, Alele Diane, Junior Boys and many more. For the full Suoni Per Il Popolo schedule click here. And here’s a full list of highlight shows happening on this week in Montreal. Read more…

This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

Festival Season kicks off this week in Montreal with the 12th annual MUTEK Festival, which celebrates electronic music in all its various forms. Headlining this year’s fest are Amon Tobin and Four Tet, but those are just two of nearly 100 artists scheduled to perform at this year’s fest. That’s not all that’s going on this week however. Lissie, Javelin, Future Islands, This Will Destroy You and Aloe Blacc all have shows lined up for this week and Montreal’s own Socalled will be launching his brand new album on Friday night at the Ukrainian Federation. In short, it’s going to be a very busy week for Montreal music lovers. Here’s all the highlights:

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This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

While this week won’t be the busiest week we’ve ever seen in Montreal for concerts there are still some great shows that are certainly worth checking out. Highlights this week include MAN MAN, Austra, Johnny Flynn and Friendly Fires. On the local front we’ve got folk songstress Charlotte Cornfield playing tonight at Casa Del Popolo, The Lindbegh Line, Bad Weather and She’s Got A Habit playing on Tuesday night at Divan Orange, Little Scream playing on Wednesday night at Il Motore and Snailhouse will close out the week on Sunday at La Sala Rossa. Here’s all the highlights for the week: Read more…

This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

The stars are coming out this week in Montreal. Starting off tonight with Adele‘s highly anticipated and sold out performance at L’Olympia and continuing throughout the week with performances by A-trak, Lykke Li, Grimes and Arctic Monkeys, we are in store for some great shows this week. But if you’d like to check out some of Montreal’s best local acts, we suggest you check out First You Get The Sugar on Tuesday at Divan Orange, UN, Reversing Falls and Nightwood on Thursday at Casa Del Popolo and Miracle Fortress on Friday at the Torn Curtain. Here’s all the highlights for the week:

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This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

We’ve an eclectic week of shows ahead of us this week in Montreal. Rock, pop, soul, electronica, folk…pretty much whatever you’re in the mood for can be found at one of the many venues around the city. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings will be making a highly anticipated return to Montreal on Tuesday night at Metropolis in order to spread the message that R&B isn’t dead. Spencer Krug’s solo project, Moonface, will take full flight on Thursday night at Il Motore and Tune-Yards play the very next night at La Sala Rossa. Here’s all the highlights for the week…

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This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

For the past week the name Godspeed You! Black Emperor has been on the lips of many Montrealers, brimming with excitement over the band’s five nights of shows in Montreal. Well tonight’s performance at L’Olympia will be the final of the five shows and if you haven’t yet seen the band live tonight will be your last chance. In other news, there are a lot of interesting shows going on this week including performances by The Death Set, WIN WIN, Lake, Baby Dee, and Olenka & The Autumn Lovers. Here are all of our highlights for the week.

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This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

We hope you’ve had a quiet and restful weekend because this week, Montreal will be completely jam packed with great shows happening night after night. It’s also apparently album release week in Montreal as there are a number of Montreal bands playing album release shows this week. Malajube will play back to back sold out shows on Tuesday and Wednesday at La Tulipe as they release their latest LP, La Caverne. Pat Jordache will also be releasing his debut album this Thursday at Discoteque Tropicale as well as Grimes and D’Eon who will be releasing a brand new split this Friday at La Sala Rossa. Here’s the full picture for the week. Read more…

Just Announced

Just Announced

The Antlers, Miracle Fortress, Lissie, Art Brut, Aloe Blacc, This Will Destroy You, Dirty Beaches, Dirty Vegas, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Javelin, Big Freedia, Future Islands, Pierced Arrows, Grimes, D’Eon, Austra, Bad Weather, The Milkman’s Union, The Wind Up Radio Sessions and more!

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This Week In Montreal

This Week In Montreal

While there isn’t much going on in the city tonight, strap your boots on because from Tuesday on the week will just get better and better. Tuesday, Friday and Saturday will be especially tough days to choose a concert since there are at least three great options each night but if you are looking for a show on Wednesday night we’d like to turn your attention to the Arbutus Records fundraiser that will be going on at Casa Del Popolo. The local label will be raising money for the release of Tonstartssbandht‘s Now I Am Become LP that will be released in May and along with Andy Summers from the band performing, Makeout Videotape and Pop Winds will also play. Here’s the full list of highlights for this week.
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