Pop Montreal 2011: Day 4 Picks ( September 24th )

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The Vandelles @ Cabaret Du Mile-End / 10:30pm

This Brooklyn foursome are the spawn, offspring, progeny of The Jesus And Mary Chain and Danish duo The Raveonettes if they made sweet, messy love to each other.
Shoegaze meets Surf Rock, for any lovers of crunchy guitars and walls of [...]

Pop Montreal 2011: Day 3 Picks ( September 23rd )

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Tahiti 80 @ La Tulipe / 9pm

The forgotten sons of the french indie pop scene where sadly, all the media attention went to Phoenix, Tahiti 80 have soldiered on and have kept churning out quality albums year after year.
“The Past, The Present & the Possible” is the [...]

Pop Montreal 2011: Day 1 Picks ( September 21st )

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Pop Montreal is a decade old.
I was there at the beginning back in 2002.
I have fond memories of seeing those black-clad New Yorkers Interpol playing their
first show in our fair city at the now closed Jupiter Room. The place was PACKED.
People standing on furniture just to get [...]

Videos: 2011 Osheaga Music Festival : Day 3 ( Sunday )

For this 6th edition (and first 3-day affair), I was only able to attend the last day.
There was a snafu with my media accreditation application (try saying that fast 3 times) but kind lady in charge of these things was able to let me in yesterday so big ups to her.

Highlights for me were Cypress [...]

My Osheaga 2011 Picks ( Friday / Day 1 )

The 6th edition of Osheaga being only 3 days away, I thought I would give my
recommendations for each days in music video form.
What easier way to get a good sense of what those recs are about wouldn’t you
agree?

Here goes:

Tomorrow night, at the SAT, part of the “In The City” portion of the festival,
L.A.’s electro/synth pop [...]

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