A guide to Record Store Day in Montreal
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 20, is Record Store Day. Here’s what’s happening in Montreal.
Here’s your inside job: chill the fuck out
Following the Boston bombings, the old-school media cluster-fuck and social media conspiracy frenzy moved our hip hop columnist to put on his j-school-grad hat and dive into the fray.
This is why this week sucked
It’s been a shitty few days all around, dudes. Here’s what happened in the news.
Put this in your mouth immediately
La Piadineria specializes in made-to-order Italian street food, with ingredients straight from the motherland — pleasing a gourmet palate for less than $10.
Neon fetes 15 years of 514 parties
The production company that grew out of a record store and Tiga’s DJ nights at defunct St-Laurent club Jai Bar have evolved into a full-on party and show promotion machine. Ahead of tonight’s bash at their spiritual home, SAT, Neon top man John Hatz talks about labours of love, the electro wave and fuckin’ Moby.
Unravelling the Canadian dream
Gold Mountain tells the story of a man’s journey from rural China to Canada in search of a better life, in a beautiful visual package.
Reversing Falls stand up for short songs
Local austere rockers Reversing Falls are a squealing guitar band in a time where it’s slightly unfashionable to be one. Their eponymous first full-length, launching at Casa tonight, is wall-to-wall catchy, single-calibre pop-rock ditties trimmed of any unnecessary fat.
François Ozon’s voyeuristic voyage
Dans la maison, the latest from French writer/director François Ozon, is a story about storytelling that’s equal parts touching, disturbing and absurd, with a solid cast and an unpredictable plot.
Friday, April 19
* Paul Burgoyne vernissage at BBAM! Gallery
* Talonbooks launch at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
* Appassionata 2010 screens at the Goethe-Institut
* Reversing Falls, Asthma Camp & Holobody at Casa del Popolo
* I Love Neon 15-year anniversary party at the Satosphere
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