AltWeeklies Wire
The Music of Ebony Bones is as Brash and Brilliant As Her Wardrobenew
If you don’t know London, England’s Ebony Bones (née Ebony Thomas), don’t worry, you will soon. She’s rather hard to miss with her gigantic hair and absurdist outfits of impossible shapes and every colour in the rainbow, cranked up to maximum saturation.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
02-05-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Uncanny Hootenanny of Hank Pine & Lily Fawn Fires Up Montreal's Festival Seasonnew
Twisted musical revisionists Hank Pine & Lily Fawn testify about their comic book origins, their snake-oil stage show, their creep-outs for kiddies and the robot in their future—but they won't say where the bodies are buried.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
06-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The 'It' Factor of the Wong Boysnew
Hailing from the land of Lego and blue cheese, the Wong Boys are a pair of Danish music-scene vets who "talk punk and walk rave," as they put it, which essentially means they bang out obtuse, ass-kick electro-pop that's rank, dank, raunchy and stupid in an exceptionally clever manner.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-13-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: electronic music, The Wong Boys
The Death Set Lives It Upnew
A Death Set gig is in the same full-contact, play-in-the-crowd style as Dan Deacon and Girl Talk, which requires an absence of personal-space inhibitions on Johnny Sierra's part, but how close is too close? "I don't know," he chuckles. "I haven't had to say that yet. The closer and more spazzy it gets, the more fun it is."
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
05-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Worldwide, The Death Set
Poppin' Wheelies with Monaretanew
The Colombian-bred, Brooklyn-based duo on BMXing
in Bogota and plugged-in porros.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
04-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Robbie Tucker, Action Mannew
The Montreal musician has a million-dollar idea for taking on Parkinson's disease.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Green Room, Robbie Tucker
The Shape of Things That Camenew
With a fancy for a fantastical past, Daedelus is West Coast hip-hop’s odd man out and about.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Daedelus
The National Parcs: Grooves From the Great Outdoorsnew
The Montreal band breaks new ground with Timbervision, an audio-visual album of hinterland harmonies and beats from the bush.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The National Parcs, Timbervision
Freakin' and Tweakin' with Dan Deaconnew
The sublime and the ridiculous collide in
the work of the Baltimore musician.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
09-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
Psychotropical Orchestra's Manic Magicnew
Death makes them laugh, their apparel makes them powerful and -- watch out -- the Invasion
Psychotropical is just beginning.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
07-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Psychotropical Orchestra
!!!: History in the Makingnew
Only time will tell what tricks and truths lie in !!!'s Myth Takes.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
05-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: !!!
Fools’ Gold: Philadelphia’s Plastic Littlenew
Joining the effort to make rap music fun again, Plastic Little deliver a big bounty of bounce and buffoonery.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Plastic Little
Trans Am: Starting at the End of the Worldnew
The abstract rockers reunite, break their own rules and bust out a bright, ballsy new album.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
04-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Trans Am
Poster Boynew
One Percent Free takes his no-pay policy to the streets -- literally.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: One Percent Free
Up, Down, Out and Aboutnew
With their sophomore smash A Weekend in the City, U.K. dance-punk darlings Bloc Party rock around the clock, taking in the good times, bad vibes, wasted hours and magic moments.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloc Party
