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by Darcy MacDonald

Here’s where you can stay woke this week on some good times, post-festival mania.

shineTechnically, I’m on vacation, but since Cult MTL don’t sleep, here’s where you can stay woke this week on some good times, post-festival mania, and then it’s back to my porch for morning beers.

Friday: Gold-front rap agitators les Anticipateurs bring their “Anticipatour” to Club la Boom to launch a new project, G.O.L.F. — that’s “Gangster Original de la Langue Française.”  Get there in time for tribute-set openers Cypress Chill and Slim Charlie. 1254 Stanley, 9 p.m., $16.73

Meanwhile, in the tradition of hip hop with concerns, Quebec mic maven Manu Militari headlines Club Soda with Souldia and Rymz opening up. 1225 St-Laurent, 8 p.m., $20/$25

And if you haven’t in a minute, Get Nice at Blizzarts with Simahlak on the 1s and 2s. 3956 St-Laurent, 10 p.m., free before 11 p.m./$5

Saturday: By all accounts the first edition two weeks back was bumpin’, VHS — a Piknic offshoot in tandem with MURAL fest, First Fridays food truck events and next month’s MRCY Fest in Laval — returns to the Van Horne aquaduct for an afternoon and evening of buck beats, truck eats , live art and mass appeal. Heidy P, DJ Killa-Jewel, the inimitable Alaclair Ensemble and Figure8 b2b FunkyFalz.  5795 de Gaspé, 4 p.m., $10

Sunday: More daytime action at Day Play 2 with Iron Galaxy, Francis Oak and Sexlife in your hearts and ears at non-prof Never Apart. 7049 St-Urbain, 3 p.m., $10

Wednesday: It’s a Socalled back-to-school party, with Random Recipe, Seba, Gigi French and DJ Burt Cokain, at Petit Campus. 57 Prince Arthur E., 8 p.m., $16/$20

 

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by Darcy MacDonald

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Darcy MacDonald has been with Cult MTL since day one, a decade ago. Which means today, he’s a middle-aged white guy (albeit one more interested in other people’s ideas than in his own). He was previously a columnist and reporter for Montreal Mirror, and has also created content (FKA “written”) for RBMA, Noisey, Montreal Gazette, The National Post and probably some other great places he’s forgotten about. Music, culture, community and miscellaneous questions in search of answers all come across his desk, sooner or later.