Kele Okereke & co. come at you with their guitars, mics and sticks sparking and starting fires on this fourth Bloc Party album, which sounds a lot like a re-statement of intent, an attempt to reclaim some of the heat they generated back in 2005.
Passovah Productions turned four this winter. Noah Bick launched the company with Lukas Glickman (who’s since stepped out of the picture) as a booster for their friends’ bands. They favoured quasi-legal venues like Friendship Cove, where there was no rental fee and no carding — Bick was 17 at the time. He was already an employee at Pop Montreal when Passovah launched, and about a year later, he began working for a company that you’d think would be his primary rival: Blue Skies Turn Black.
No matter how tough it is to skate in Nowheresville, U.S.A., the skate scene there is definitely healthier than the one in Kabul, Afghanistan. Director Kai Sehr portrays the NGO skate school in this doc screening as part of the Phi Centre’s Skate or Die series of skateboarding movies.
“Gastropub is a bad word to describe it,” Dammann says of his new Maison Publique. “The easiest way to describe what I’m doing is a tavern. It’s sort of a lost thing here in Montreal — taverns are almost dead.”
* New Rant Line™
* Jon Knowles’ exhibit Mixed Misuse
* 2-QTPOC vernissage
* Skateistan: Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul
* Urban Roots at Urban Agriculture Film Festival
* Young Man with the Hawks at Il Motore
Documentarians Ameesha Joshi and Anna Sarkissian have one week left to meet their funding goal to finish With This Ring, their doc on Indian women boxers. Check out their story (and trailer) and you could help make it happen…
