Mark Di Franco
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Fringe ArtsConcert Review: Le Couleur Comes Back to the Stage
Montreal-based electro-pop band, Le Couleur, hit the stages for M for Montreal music event.
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Fringe ArtsTaking a Trip to the Montreal Jazz Festival’s Médiathèque
Nearly 40 years of musical festival history is being stored and preserved at Montreal’s archive, the médiathèque. Available to the public at all times!
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Fringe ArtsAlbum Review: Videoman is Out with the Old and In with the New
Videoman’s new album focuses on the killing off of old habits and personalities in order to make way for the overall improvement of the self.
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Fringe ArtsAlbum Review: Blue Hawaii’s Search for Affection
After a long hiatus, Montreal electro-pop duo, Blue Hawaii, have returned with their latest album, Tenderness.
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Fringe ArtsAlbum Preview: A Strong Friendship Within the Jalbert-Beaulieu Duo
François Jalbert and Jérôme Beaulieu have collaborated once more for their latest LP, This is a Real Place, being released on Sept. 22. we’ve got some insight on that album as well as a review of it.
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Fringe ArtsAlbum Review: Blood and Glass’ Sound is Gaining Ground
In March, theatrical-nightmare and punk band Blood and Glass released their album Punk Shadows. Here’s our review of it!
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Fringe ArtsFestival Review: OUMF Returned to the Stage
This year’s OUMF festival went down earlier in September. Here’s a look at how artists and students alike benefit from it.
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Special Issue“Do You Have This on Vinyl?”
Whether you’re a music fanatic, collector, concertgoer or you just like the feeling of vinyl in your hands, these shops are sure to tickle your fancy.
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Fringe ArtsFemale-Fronted Punk Bands Rage Against the Manchine
Not becoming seriously recognized as a band is one of the reasons why women in punk may be hesitant to start their own bands.
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Fringe ArtsLaureate’s Energetic Sound is Home Bound
Montreal-based pop-punk band Laureate’s album, Landmarks, is jam packed with energy. Here’s our review on it.
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A Look Back at the 1960s Through Art and Music
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a new exhibit called Revolution that gives its audience a glimpse of what it must’ve been like to be a part of the 1960s.
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Samuele Blends Blues and Folk with Indie and Rock
Samuele meshes together blues, indie and rock in her most recent album Les filles sages vont au paradis, les autres vont où elles veulent. Here’s our review on it.
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35 Years of Non-Stop Laughter
What do Saint-Denis Street, the Old Port, and the Quartier des Spectacles have in common? Just For Laughs! These three locations have hosted the iconic Montreal comedy festival since its creation in 1983.
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Turn Up the Afro and Spanish Jazz Rhythms
Blending African and Caribbean rhythms with jazz is possible.
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A New Generation of New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans is the place where jazz music really began to take shape.
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Fringe ArtsBlending Blues and Indie Rock at the Montreal Jazz Festival
Jesse Mac Cormack adds an indie rock spin to some old blues classics in this year’s International Jazz Festival.
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Fringe ArtsAdding a Hint of Rock and Fusion to the Montreal International Jazz Festival
Christine and Ingrid Jensen put on a jazzy performance that mixed rock and fusion in as well for this year’s International Jazz Festival.
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Combining Different Musical Genres Into One Song
Picture an artist using their instruments to paint the luminous colours of music while exploring the borderless sounds of improvisation. This is the Robert Glasper Experiment Art/Science.
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Fringe ArtsKick Off Those Sunday Shoes with Just For Laughs
Just For Laughs festival is going to be celebrating their 35th anniversary in the near future. To help with the celebration, Footloose is hitting the stages.
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The LOUVE Project Closes Les FrancoFolies de Montréal Festival
Les FrancoFolies de Montréal has come to a close, and to help out with this in a great way was the LOUVE Project.
