Montreal’s acousmatic music festival is here
We spoke to composer Groupe de Recherches Musicales director and performer François J. Bonnet ahead of the 16th annual Akousma.
Suoni per il Popolo festival highlights
See our list of must-see shows at the music fest for the people, running till June 22.
Laibach make art against fascism
The Slovenian group is currently in the middle of a world tour, and will be stopping in Quebec this week for the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville.
Meet Montreal volume musician Kyle Bobby Dunn
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 best of the Suoni per il Popolo fest
The festival of experimental, avant-garde and underground jazz, pop, rock and electronic sounds is on now, through June 22. See our highlights here.
USA Out of Vietnam made a record
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.
Guitar legend Richard Pinhas is giddy for FIMAV
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.
Jerusalem in My Heart hits the road
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.
The Howl! festival unites art & activism
We spoke to curator & organizer Stefan Christoff about the week of programming beginning this Thursday, April 24.
ObE wants to mess with your mind
Sound, light and philosophy collide in ObE, the latest immersive mind-fuck in the SATosphere, presented by Dromos‘s Maotik and Fraction.