Usually on Sunday night people recover from Saturday night and ease in the upcoming week with Netflix and Chill, football and chicken wings, or another combination which suits the mood. On Sunday November 24th, there was no chilling though, as two hot young […]
I’m allergic to clichés, but the overused “meteoric rise” describing rapid success perfectly applies to The Interrupters. In recent memory, the So-Cal ska-pop five-piece has played MTelus, Club Soda (twice), and ’77. Each one, up […]
Opening bands normally warm up the crowd but don’t play a spectacular set that draws attention away from the headliners. It’s difficult to upstage a band like Thievery Corporation, who have had plenty of gigs […]
I love October. Seasons change as fall takes hold, nights grow longer, and my taste shifts to darker music and horror movies. The carefree days of festival season are replaced by indoor concerts and melancholic […]
Pop music sometimes has a bad reputation with music geeks. Yes, it’s fun and light and the lyrics are usually about love, but, in the words of Sheryl Crow, “if it makes you happy, it […]
It was a gloomy start to Labour Day. With the last day of the long weekend—the unofficial end of summer—and a dreary, rain-soaked day ahead, there wasn’t enough coffee in the world to get me […]
This was easily one of my best days this summer. Two of Montreal ‘s electronic music institutions, Piknic Électronik and Mutek, joined forces again for their annual techno smorgasbord at Parc Jean-Drapeau, serving up some […]
IleSoniq returned to Île Ste Hélène on August 9th and 10th for two days of beats, bros, torrential rain and dramatic thunderstorms. Yes, the weather didn’t cooperate on opening day, and there were long music […]
I’ve checked out plenty of concerts for Bucketlist, but I can only count on one hand the number of heavy metal gigs I’ve reviewed. So, on a rare night I attend a metal show, you […]
The Montreal Jazz Festival is known for straying off jazz music’s beaten path with an eclectic mix of music genres. However, this was the first time I’ve heard thrash at the annual event. Yes, for […]
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