Today’s Sounds: Ceramic Dog, Best Coast, A-Trak
Marc Ribot’s schizophrenic rock band, Ceramic Dog, plus Best Coast’s peach-fuzzy Record Store Day single and an awesome A-Trak video for Rube Goldberg buffs to nerd out to.
Highlights of the Blue Metropolis lit fest
Here’s what not to miss at the 15th edition of Montreal’s biggest annual literary love-in.
Scenes from Record Store Day
Cindy Lopez shot the goings-on at a couple of local shops on Record Store Day, where customers raided the bins and watched Montreal bands perform.
Montreal is big-box’s next battleground
Zellers was once Canada’s accidental gatekeeper, keeping stores like Target and Walmart out of the country. But now that the latter two have finished picking its corpse, what will our city’s big-box landscape look like?
Monday, April 22
* The Blue Metropolis literary fest begins
* Liverpool band Clinic at Il Motore
* Short & Sweet dance at Sala
* La Sirga (The Towrope) screens at Parc