* High Wattage: Elements of the Slam Poem
* Tommy Wiseau’s The Room
* The Pilot: Commander Adama Loves Nikki Reimer Edition
* Rae Spoon, Al Mader’s Minimimalist Jug Band, and Catherine Kidd with Stefan Christoff
* Hip Hop Festival presents Rap d’Icitte
* Cormega and Large Professor @ Underworld
* Bal en Blanc
* The Ten Commandments
* HP Process_Translations workshop
* Hip Hop Festival
* Mile End Poets Festival
* Canada’s punk history w/ Sam Sutherland and Ralph Alfonso
* The Normals and Electric Vomit @ l’Escogriffe
* Jordan Dare, Vosper and Jealous Lovers @ SAT
Recovering from this week’s Under Pressure/Cult MTL co-pro and the local media’s circle jerk over a little metro booze-up, PLUS Kalmunity turns 10 and the Festival Hip Hop de Montréal takes over.
The most hated person on the Internet is DJing here on Saturday.
Snoop Dogg’s transformation into Snoop Lion is documented in a solid portrait screening this weekend at the PHI Centre.
* Snoop Dogg doc at the PHI Centre
* Frank & Oak x Lunice launch
* Performance poetry at Casa del Popolo
* Rococode, Alex Strangler & Wilder at Quai des Brumes
* Whiskey Tax album party
* Boats at Cagibi
The William Hooker Quintet as captured live in 2010, at New York City’s Roulette. PLUS an exclusive Beat Market remix of local electro-pop act le Couleur, ahead of tonight’s launch of a new local record label, Lisbon Lux. AND heartbreak, grace and magic realism collide in the new video by Phosphorescent.
Glen Matlock, the original and latter-day bassist for England’s premiere punk band, sees himself as a songwriter first, but as he says, “If I call myself a musician and I don’t play, I’m full of shit.” And so he plays Piranha tonight.
Local writer Saleema Nawaz’s debut novel, Bone and Bread , has received a lot of hype, making her a rising star of Canadian fiction. Here’s the scoop on the new book.
Courtesy of director Jon M. Chu (Step Up 3D), there are fewer toy-chest antics and a hell of a lot more ninjas in this leaner, meaner sequel to the original 2009 stinker G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
