Even when ostensibly promoting his art, Spike Lee never strays too far away from his core political message.
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10 Awesome Photos from Ty Segall at POP Montreal
The award for rowdiest crowd at POP Montreal this year definitely goes to Ty Segall.
Read MoreA Look Inside The Unicorns’ Only Reunion Show in Canada
Montreal’s iconic indie pop-rock band The Unicorns finally gave their fans the blast from the past they’d been waiting for at their POP Montreal show. Closing out this year’s festival at Métropolis on Sunday night, you’d never know from the way they played that the trio only recently reunited, let alone spent the past ten…
Read MoreNXNE: Why This Year Was Different
There’s so much more that goes into organizing a festival than booking a solid lineup. Finding venues, organizing schedules and acquiring sponsors are amongst the many issues that any festival organizer must deal with in order to make an event a success. When a given festival increases in popularity, however, a new infrastructural problem emerges: crowd control. This was…
Read MoreMural Festival: Creating in our Own Backyards
The Mural Festival is this weekend and twenty-one new murals will soon inhabit the walls of Montreal.
Read MoreThe Bizarre History of Foufounes Electriques: Paint Parties, Pies and Punk Rock
While our city is known for its cultural diversity, there are few venues in Montreal where you’ll find punks, goths, students and everything in between mixing quite as easily as they do at Foufounes Electriques.
Read MoreInterview: Mutual Benefit’s Jordan Lee On Their New Album, And Why They’re Not Sufjan Stevens
Web journalists – particularly those that specialize in music – are a very strange breed of people. Huddled into the large, yet shockingly small space known as the Internet, writers from all walks of life dish out their self-righteous opinions, hoping to echo louder than the next person. At its core, the goal of the…
Read MoreVancouver Meets Montreal: Shad @ The Corona Theatre
The last time I went to see Shad, he performed for a packed house. This time around, the attending bodies hardly made a dent in the venue’s capacity. While this could be attributed to the fact that both openers– Hannah Georgas and We Are The City– are definitely not hip-hop acts, it nonetheless made for…
Read MoreStore Feature: Atelier
Stepping into Atelier B is like entering a piece of Montreal’s garment production history, transformed into a bright retail space full of clean-cut men’s and women’s clothing and accessories.
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