Videos: The Joy Formidable @ Petit Campus (11. 04. 2010)

Official Website / Myspace / Twitter On a cold, rainy Montreal night, The Joy Formidable were back in town (almost 6 months to the day) serving us a second helping of their sweet, melodious shoegaze witnessed by a lucky few @ Petit Campus. At barely an hour, we got pretty much the same setlist has […]

Reminder: Teenage Fanclub @ Cabaret JPR / September 24th

I would wager this to be the Power Pop (or melodious rock) event of the year in the 514 area code, The Fannies back in Montreal after a 13 years absence to promote their 9th studio album “Shadows”. Still going strong after 20 years, which all started with their critically hailed debut 1991’s “Bandwagonesque”. Opening […]

Videos: Autolux @ La Sala Rossa ( 08. 25. 2010 )

They fucking rocked. How’s that for a review. They were all smiles and kind of chatty which is very un-Autolux like if you’ve seen them perform live before. They played their new album “Transit Transit” in it’s entirety with a few choice cuts from “Future Perfect”. We got to witness Greg Edwards, in piano man […]

Contest: Autolux @ La Sala Rossa ( August 25th 2010 )

Ya I know. Another Autolux post. I swear I only have a few more in me. This one benefits my fellow Montrealers who were planning on attending their first headlining show in our neck of the woods (they opened for Secret Machines and The Raveonettes back in 2005) @ La Sala Rossa (my most favorite […]

Osheaga 2010: The Recap

A week ago today, 53 000 people showed up on Île-Sainte-Hélène, making this year’s festivities their most well attended edition yet. Killer lineup of bands + perfect Summer weather, there was no way this edition would fail. Highlights for me included hearing songs from the new Walkmen album “Lisbon”. they were the first band I […]

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