Today’s Sounds: Metz

by Lorraine Carpenter

Have you ever been yelled at, shaken, punched and kicked, and then totally charmed, sleazed and swept off your feet by your abuser? You’re probably a masochist, with Stockholm syndrome. But this is how I feel about Metz.

Street arts

by Darcy MacDonald

When I’m not listening to hip hop, I can assure you without blinking that I’m definitely not listening to Congolese street music.
I appreciate any truly dope rhythm, wherever it comes from, but I know diggers and jazz fanatics who mention Nigerian or Cuban artists the same way Jethro Tull fans reference flute-shredding solos, and I kinda have to stay patient with both, albeit more sincerely with the former.
When something comes and gets me though, much as I like a good fable, it doesn’t matter what the story is. I don’t listen for the hooks. But I’m gonna recommend something I didn’t know shit about until last week, and for the right reasons.

Q&A with Denis Gagnon

by KATRINA SARK

Cult MTL talks to Montreal fashion design icon Denis Gagnon about city style, gender norms in the new collection, inspiration and his collaborations with Aldo.

Review: Chris Kraus’ Summmer of Hate

by JEFF MILLER

Set in 2005, Chris Kraus’s Summer of Hate condenses the pure hell of the second Bush administration into a searing novel which reveals that the psychological scars from the first decade of the twenty-first century are still open and raw. This is an important novel. Kraus’s work is a necessary corrective to the countless ‘realist’ literary novels that refuse to engage with the dirty realities of contemporary life.

Market Share – friends and countrymen, lend me your Romans

by STACEY DEWOLFE

In terms of taste, what you are getting is not much different than you would from a standard cauliflower, which for some people might mean that the extra cost (the head pictured here was $7) is hard to justify. It is described as more subtle in flavour and slightly nuttier than the regular model, and I concur, but what it has in spades over its cruciferous cousins is its ornate, alien beauty.