Yamantaka // Sonic Titan want your cash
Montreal/Toronto performance artists launch an Indiegogo campaign to fund a video game, Your Task// Shoot Things
You could — nay, should — be our next mayor
Last week, the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal posted a tongue-in-cheek job listing in search of a new mayor. So why haven’t you applied yet?
It’s hot, so here’s how to drink
The weather is nice, and you want to drink. So should you head to the nearest terrasse or slip a beer into a brown bag? We weighed the pros and cons of each option.
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?
Today’s Sounds: Jai Paul, Disclosure, ¡Flist!
The illegally uploaded rough cut of a record by London producer Jai Paul — album of the year? PLUS a single by British dancefloor bros Disclosure and a video by Montreal’s ¡Flist!.
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.
Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel
Lost amid all the news of recent layoffs at EA Montreal is the fact that the studio rather quietly released Visceral Montreal’s final game, Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, late last month. It’s presumably the last chapter in a maligned trilogy, that if truly dead, will have gone down as an exclusively made-In-Montreal series.
Today’s Sounds: James Blake, Jacques Greene, KEN Mode, Chvrches
The new album by 24-year-old British singer/producer James Blake, plus a track by Montreal’s Jacques Greene with Tinashe, a video by Winnipeg heavy-hitters KEN Mode & a bonus slice of Glasgow’s Chvrches giallo-ing up the Game of Thrones theme song.
Here’s why St-Laurent is dying
The St-Laurent Merchants’ Association is spending $30,000 to dress up the street’s empty storefronts with work by local artists. Will that be enough to draw businesses back to the Main?
I’m an anglo — now stop fucking reminding me
Do Quebec anglos feel like a disenfranchised minority? Only when the media tells them that they should.