Have a look at the line-up for Montreal’s open-air pop music festival — Osheaga. This year, there’s something for old-school goths, hip hop kids, indie hipsters, neo-punks, dancefloor mavens, granola-chewing backpackers and your average radio listener. Um, maybe. Check ça man.
M for Montreal’s main man Mikey B Rishwain is out at the spring festivals, reporting for Cult MTL about the bands, the bars and the local weirdos in Halifax, Austin and Toronto. In this first installment of Mikey B Trippin, he regales us with tales of his first time in Halifax: the biker bars, the bribes, the Boners & the Downers of East Coast Music Week.
Remember the ice storm of 1998? In its aftermath, a class-action lawsuit was brought against four home insurance companies. Fifteen years later, one Cult MTL writer collected some cash.
Cult MTL talks to young writer and activist Julie Mannell about small-town feminism and the politics of women’s writing.
* Ruins at VAV Gallery
* Bruce LaBruce in the flesh and on screen
* Vintage video games at Nouveau Power
* Roadmap to Apartheid at Cinema Politica
* Festival news on CKUT’s Underground Sounds
