The Smashing Pumpkins brought Oceania to Montrealers of all generations at their Bell Centre show on Sunday night. The Pumpkins’ last Montreal appearance was at the Osheaga music festival in 2007.
Art aficionados and romantics everywhere will surely have their breath taken away when they visit Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts this winter for its new exhibit, Once Upon a Time… Impressionism.
Spektor’s latest album What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, featured prominently on her set list. Songs like “All The Rowboats” and “Ballad of a Politician” had fans singing and clapping, while “Open” moved fans to silence as Spektor crooned into her mic “potentially lovely/perpetually human”.
Just in time for fall, the selection committee for one of Canada’s most prestigious literary awards, the Governor General award, announced its list of finalists.
Ben Howard, UK’s as-of-yet hidden gem, played a soul-shattering concert at Metropolis Sunday night. Before Ben Howard took the stage, Louisiana native Gill Landry warmed up the crowd with his sweet melodies and charming southern drawl.
We are a country with two official languages, but how often in Quebec do we make that a source of disconcertion? Isn’t it time we embraced both languages and celebrated what their literary traditions have to offer?