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Weekly Spins
Cruising calm and clear out of small bars and cliquey venues of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, comes Slowdance –a modest indie-pop band breaking boundaries with their debut EP Light & Color.
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Montreal’s Other Jazz Festival
With a host of local and imported talent, the OFF Jazz festival will be returning to Montreal this fall for its 12th annual edition.
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Frame to Frame
The 40th edition of the Festival de Nouveau Cinema, “Ruby” edition, promises a brilliant array of sexy and cutting edge films from all over the world, beginning this week with film labs, master classes and exciting new initiatives from the festival.
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Fringe Food
If you get as hungry as me walking past slews of restaurants out of your price range, you may have even remarked upon such an absence yourself. Montréal’s 64-year-old street-food ban is indeed one of the great ironies of the city’s culinary identity.
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Artistically Accessible
Usine 106U is jam packed with art. The walls are covered from floor to ceiling, salon style, but the content is anything but. Sculptural, textural, hilarious and vulgar, art makers deemed ‘thematic outcasts’ find home here.
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Like a Mountain
Timber Timbre has been morphing into a full band over the last two years, one more capable to entrance their ever-growing audience. Now violin, lapsteel and the constant kick drum frame singer/songwriter Taylor Kirk’s formerly acoustic vibrations, deepening the mystic trip he’s ready to lead you on.
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Don’t Wanna Be Sedated
For those of us who have spent most of our lives in Montreal, it’s pretty hard to imagine life in a town without record stores or movie theatres. Queer punk writer Kristyn Dunnion called such a place home during her childhood, but it wasn’t long before she was planning an escape.
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Out of the Woods
Bruce Peninsula were riding high on the success of their Polaris-nominated debut LP, but the Toronto-based band’s recording of their sophomore record ended on a darker note.
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Write to the Death
Though modern notions of political correctness and the primacy of human life have largely done away with gladiator-style fights to the death, ancient Roman notions of combat are being kept alive in Montreal next Tuesday. -
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A Discussion With Mr. Shithead
For those not hip to the scene, D.O.A. are one of the most important things to happen to Canadian punk (if not punk, period) since, well… ever.