There’s no place like home: Montreal’s music scene
Why we should choose local musicians and smaller venues With the season of countless music festivals looming closer…
Quickspins – Cults, Chevalier Avant Garde, Black Milk, The Avett Brothers
Cults – Static (Columbia Records; 2013) Following the end of the duo’s four-year romantic relationship, singer Madeline Follin…
A band of brothers
To those foreign to the band, the Avett Brothers’ sound can be seen as original enough to attract…
Quickspins – The Dodos, Franz Ferdinand, NIN, Bastille
The Dodos- Carrier (Dine Alone Records; 2013) Carrier is The Dodo’s fifth studio album, and the band’s first…
Quickspins
Widowspeak – Almanac (Captured Tracks; 2013) Widowspeak follows up their 2011 self-titled album with the richly-textured and bewitchingly…
Quickspins: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Calvin Harris, Macy Gray, Luke Lalonde
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill (2012; Reprise) After almost half a century of making music,…
Rockabilly bands produce Halloween Rock Show
Why settle for the “Monster Mash” this Halloween season when you can high-tail it over to l’Absynthe, a local hotspot showcasing Montreal talent new and old, for their very first Halloween Rock Show?