Songs don’t so much rise out of Yves Jarvis’s Sundry Rock Song Stock (Anti-) as they swim around, fray, and dissolve. In that sense, the most characteristic track on the Canadian producer and multi-instrumentalist’s new album, the woozily liquid “Ambrosia,” is one of the oddest. Anxiously percolating keyboard and an echoing, violinlike noise wander past […]
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Synth-pop trio Le Couleur explore beauty through tragedy on Concorde
Montreal synth-pop trio Le Couleur delve into some disturbing history on their new album, Concorde, named for the supersonic airliner that in the 1970s made it possible for elite jet-setters to leave their European estates and arrive at Manhattan nightclubs after as little as three hours in the air. Midway through the record’s title track, […]
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Montreal’s Blue Hawaii will make you want to dance all night
Montreal dance-pop duo Blue Hawaii instinctively understand what kind of sounds get people to boogie, and that’s never been more clear than on their fourth album, October’s Open Reduction Internal Fixation (Artbus). They’ve long had a flair for tastefully minimal dance tracks, but some of the songs on the new record are so skeletal they […]
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The Cambrians bring the mashup to the dance world
In Empress Archer, the troupe combine various pieces into one work.
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Q-Tine offers poutine and barbecue for the drunken masses
Logan Square’s Q-Tine specializes in the food of Montreal (poutine) and Memphis (barbecue), and does a decent job of both.
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Eating elsewhere: Montreal’s uncelebrated smoked meat
Mike Sula sandwich à la viande fumée, The Main Mike Sula Schwartz’s, 3 pm on a Tuesday Mike Sula no lines outside The Main Mike Sula sandwich à la viande fumée, Lester’s http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/04/01/one-bite-montreal-style-smoked-meat-at-fumar-meats-and-deli
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Marie Chouinard adapts the page to the stage
Marie Chouinard presents Mouvements and Le Sacre du Printemps at the MCA.
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12 O’Clock Track: Omegas, “Blasts of Lunacy”
The title track from Omegas’ Blasts of Lunacy
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12 O’Clock Track: Rhye, “Open”
The excellent single “Open” could help unravel the mystery of LA electronic duo Rhye.
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The Man Who Lived on His Bike
The Man Who Lived on His Bike, a charming video by Guillaume Blanchet
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Pavement Tour Diary: Four Days, Three Bands, and Two Countries (Part Two)
In an insane four days, Jeremy works for Iron & Wine, Pavement, and Sonic Youth. Can he pull it off?
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AIDS Wolf, Carlos Giffoni
Montreal’s AIDS Wolf are an immense onslaught of terrorizing chigger-itch guitar and smash-crash-bash drumming, fronted by a woman who screams and whines like she’s channeling all the PMS in the world. Judging from the handful of songs on their MySpace page–the only music they’ve got available so far–their brand of what’s now embarrassingly called “noise […]