Today’s Sounds: Tame Impala
Lonerism, the new album by Tame Impala + a track by Toro Y Moi and Statue Park’s “Shackleton” video.
Blackstrap BBQ: smoking meats
Food writer Joanna Fox reviews Blackstrap BBQ on Wellington in Verdun. Is it deserving of all its early hype?
Morrissey on his Cdn boycott & indie career path
It’s not every day that one exchanges emails with a music legend. Well, Cult MTL got lucky this weekend and conversed with one of the most respected lyricists and singers of our generation, just ahead of his show in Burlington, VT. Read about his continued boycott of Canada, his relationship with the music industry and his feelings about Smiths-reunion rumours and “the noise generation,” right here.
Money changes everything: Colonization of Thought
Colonization of thought: art, economy and politics is a series of film screenings and talks encouraging an exchange of ideas about how politics and economics affect our social and cultural fabric.
Staff Benda Bilili transmit the sound of Kinshasa
Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili perform in Montreal this week, bringing with them a brilliant sound produced by homemade instruments, and played by street musicians beset by poliomyelitis.
Movie Pass Giveaway: The Paperboy
Thriller The Paperboy opens this Friday, Oct. 19. But there’s an advance screening on Thursday the 18th, and Cult MTL has tickets to give away.
The Bacchae: Classical Greece meets American Protestantism
Review: Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre’s new production of Euripides’s The Bacchae is muscular and creative, but discordant moments occasionally detract from an otherwise intriguing production.
Girl on t-girl action
Sasha offers advice on sex with — and sensitivity toward — a transgendered partner.
Monday, Oct. 15
* Pitch your art to Souk@SAT
* Check out French short series Les Vestiges at FNC
* See the Segal’s Guys and Dolls
* Catch Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili
* See D.O.A. play Fouf for the last time