JOSEPH SANNICANDRO

We spoke to composer Groupe de Recherches Musicales director and performer François J. Bonnet ahead of the 16th annual Akousma.

See our list of must-see shows at the music fest for the people, running till June 22.

The neo-classical minimalist is launching a record in a swimming pool today. We spoke to him about 9/11, our generation’s perpetual sadness and creating art from boredom.

The festival of experimental, avant-garde and underground jazz, pop, rock and electronic sounds is on now, through June 22. See our highlights here.

We spoke to two members of the heavy, heavy Montreal “pop” band (including Cult MTL columnist Johnson Cummins) ahead of tonight’s launch, part of the Suoni per il Popolo festival.

Even amid the greatness of the Victoriaville festival’s 30th anniversary edition, the quartet of Pinhas, Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Tatsuya Yoshida tomorrow night promises to be legendary.

We spoke to Montreal’s Radwan Ghazi Moumneh about the evolution of his Jerusalem in My Heart project & the strange ways in which Middle Eastern music is marketed in the West.