She Devils

Friday of M for Montreal is when it goes from being an industry-centric confab to a full-blown, multi-venue music festival. Things started, for me, with a closing cocktail at Montreal’s Phi Center that also featured a performance from Charlotte Cardin, a former contestant of Canada’s The Voice who is probably better known currently as a model…

The 10th edition of M for Montreal is currently underway, bringing in a couple hundred mostly Canadian acts to this four-day event that’s part industry confab and part music festival…

Montreal duo She-Devils have announced that their self-titled debut EP will be out January 15. The first song off of it, “COME,” is pretty indicative of their sound, taking samples of ’50s/’60s rock n’ roll, surf, French pop, exotica and other stuff and reworking it into new music…

Montreal’s Majical Cloudz played a release show for their new album, Are You Alone?, at new Williamsburg venue National Sawdust on Wednesday night (10/21) which was decorated with a massive pile of flowers around the main monitor…

M for Montreal‘s 10th edition happens November 18 – 21. As in years past the first two days are more industry-oriented with single shows each night and then Friday and Saturday turn into a full-blown festival all over Montreal…

National Sawdust, the former Williamsburg sawdust factory on N. 6th St. that has been turned into a multi-use facility containing a chamber hall, a recording studio, and a restaurant (three years and $16 million in the making), will finally open its doors this week…

For the second day 2 of Pop Montreal (9/19) I made a concerted effort to see bands I had a) never seen before b) was unfamiliar with. It turned out pretty well…

The 2015 edition of Pop Montreal is coming up in less than a month (September 16 – 20) and festival organizers have recently made a few additions to the already robust lineup…

Pop Montreal has just announced its second round of artists added to the festival’s 2015 lineup. That includes Viet Cong, The Orb, Micachu & the Shapes, The Besnard Lakes, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Lee Ranaldo, Albert Hammond Jr, Empress Of and more…

Last year, Hundred Waters threw their first-ever FREE three-day FORM Festival in Arizona’s experimental town Arcosanti, and this year they’re doing it again from May 22-24…