Zachary Goldberg-Mota
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News
Montreal Takes a Dump
After some precursor roadblocks, the City of Montreal plans to follow through with an eight-billion-litre dump of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
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Fringe Arts
Punks Are Feeling the Bern
Bernie Sanders Benefit Shows are a real thing, and I know why.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Character Series: Strange Froots
Montreal R&B heroes Strange Froots talk staying rooted in their culture, reaching out to young girls, and playing white shows.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Character Series: David Mitchell and William Eau
This was a pretty casual interview.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Character Series: Greg Stroll
“It’s a journey either way, right? It’s gonna hang over you for a while, but it’s gonna help form a large portion of your life and you as a person. I mean, you can’t help what details impact us, right?”
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Special Issue
DIY or Die: How to Start a House
Houses really just act as a space for generally DIY (Do-it-Yourself) minded people to come and prosper. Houses are really special spaces where a lot of incredible art and experience can form out of nothing and change your life forever, and I’m here to tell you that you can do it too.
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Special Issue
A Guide to Avoiding Beginner Tickets in Montreal
So, you’re new to Montreal. You’re from Sherbrooke or Saguenay or Saskatoon or some other place, and you’re super excited to be alone in the big city!
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Opinions
Nah’msayin: These Fucking Bottle Dinguses Better Watch the Fuck Out
These fucking haughty clerks will glower from behind their shitty little countertops, suddenly sitting atop porcelain thrones of judgment, and let me nicely sort and lay out all my bottles and cans before them, before saying, really spitting, at me that, “No, no, absolutely we do not take your bottles, it is just too difficult, too much work for me, no incentive for me, why don’t you just take them somewhere else.”
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Character Series: Tanya Stasilowitch
This would be my first interview in a non-neutral environment.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Character Series: Commander Andrew Clark
“That guy’s a fucking positive force.”
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An Ode to the Dying Pigeon, for Whom I Could Not Do Right By
The worst part was, it had been such a nice morning.
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Adult Mom Crushes With Heart-Rending Pop
Born out of Steph Knipe’s personal struggles with gender identity, queer life and being a trans person in a radically non-inclusive world, Adult Mom’s music is a combination of upbeat bedroom pop, and crushingly sad singer-songwriter.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Character Series: Colbert Lapomme Casimir
It was hot when I met Colbert Casimir and their two partners (preferring to be nameless, we’ll call them E and J) at a McDonalds on Ste. Catherine.
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Bufflo/Blais, Babylon Shards, Big Dreams perform at La Vitrola
This was one of the most fun shows I’ve been a part of. The Link hadn’t booked a session in several months, and this was the first rap session we’d ever booked, plus our first full-on concert.
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A Couple Easy Reasons I’ll Never Go Back to HeavyMTL
I went, I saw, I left forever.
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Quaaludes Perform “The Honey Tree” Ahead of U.S. Tour
Rising stars in Montreal’s emo scene find time to shred for The Link
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Opinions
I Wanna Walk Around Town in a Skirt Without Being Fucking Gawked At
I think silk was the first thing I loved.
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Opinions
Nah’msayin? Touchin’ Yr Dick—It’s Actually Pretty Sweet!
*This article may come off wrong to some people. I actually kind of feel uncomfortable writing it, as it’s an article that, in reality, only people with penises can really understand.
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Fringe Arts
A Review of Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Listening directions:
Combine with 6 oz. apricot brandy, 2 oz. lemon sour, 1 vinyl LP, 2 electroacoustic transducers, 800-3500Hz, preferably vint. b/w 1973-’86, 1 sheltered room bathed in sunlight, 40mins. -
I Do Love This, I Will Not Go Outside
With Earl Sweatshirt’s latest release, it’s clear his days of goofing around in Odd Future are over.