Montreal singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk crafts a kind of dusty folk that seems lost in time and space. But as easy as he makes it sound on his long-awaited LP, North Americana, inspiration is fleeting, each song is laborious and, he says, dodging the blue halo to reach the golden shimmer is a real bitch.
Blockbuster bilingual comic Sugar Sammy shares his surprise at success and reps Cote-des-Neiges, in advance of his next run of shows at Olympia.
The extravagant, operatic and celestial debut LP by full-of-himself Frenchman Woodkid, PLUS dark wavers Cold Cave get their hate on and Iggy Azalea shows how hard she’s gotta work it.
Indie game investor Execution Labs is eyeing employees left out in the cold following last month’s Visceral/EA Montreal layoffs.
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.
Mmm, delicious Schwartz’s smoked meat, vacuum-sealed in plastic. Boil — yes, boil — before eating. Prepare for disappointment.
Night Beds, playing tonight at Casa del Popolo, delivers an impassioned, no-nonsense slice of serene folk music, PLUS a slow sexy house track by Serbian duo Kompleks and a video by British gossip girl Chlöe Howl.
Animalistic electro party rockers We Are Wolves return with their latest record, La Mort Pop Club, and speak to Cult MTL about balladry, being the lone local wolf and weaving philosophical notions of sex and death into their jams.
Gaming geeks, behold your Nuit Blanche destination: Pixelsfest 2.22 II.
A microcosm of all that’s hot and trendy in electronic, dance and hip hop music, in mixtape form, PLUS a grand old dream-pop tune by Small Black and triple-threat Thom Yorke dancing his little heart out in the new Atoms for Peace video.
