AltWeeklies Wire
Omnikrom Turns Your Head into a TV Set with Graphic Gabbingnew
Living in the major cultural liaison between the Parisian electro-pop explosion and the gritty, uptempo crunk and B-more fads south of the border, the regional nuances the Montreal rap trio has drawn on are eclectic to the extreme.
Montreal Mirror |
Jack Oatmon |
03-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Omnikrom, Trop Banane
Sum 41: Older but Wiseguysnew
With a proven track record that continues to propel the band, Sum 41 has been rewarded with what few bands on major labels can boast, the freedom to call its own shots.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
03-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sum 41, Underclass Hero
Hungry and Restless and Wicked and Wildnew
Plants and Animals escape music school, evade pigeonholes and celebrate their street (minus McDonald's) with Parc Avenue.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Parc Avenue, Plants and Animals
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
Menace Ruine Are Darker Than Thounew
Ominous, chaotic, brooding, violent and punishing are all adjectives befitting the music of this Montreal duo.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cult of Ruins, Menace Ruine
Plan de Villenew
Montreal rap mainstay Stratège speaks up about the plight of French hip hop in Quebec.
Montreal Mirror |
Scott C |
02-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Back en Solo, Stratege
Gonna Make You Sweaternew
Leslie and the Ly's rule the web with rhymes, moves and threads.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
02-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Leslie and the LY's, Cewebrity
Vocal Heroesnew
Popular music has always had a place for a cappella tunes by groups like Take 6 and Manhattan Transfer, but the New York-based septet Naturally 7 has taken the style to another level.
Montreal Mirror |
Gerald Dee |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Naturally 7
The Young and the Fecklessnew
Paris/London trio the Teenagers act their age, again.
Montreal Mirror |
Jack Oatmon |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Teenagers
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
Dillinger Escape Plan Break Bones, Not Stringsnew
All the anger and musical complexity with which the New Jersey band almost single-handedly changed the face of metal on 1999's Calculating Infinity returns, but that album sounds a petulant tantrum compared to the teeth-gnashing fury they now bring to the table.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works
The Fun of the Frenchnew
Xavier Caféïne doesn’t believe in computers or Tommy Lee, he just believes in francophonie.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gisèle, Xavier Caféïne
Teki Latex: Slick-Lipped Scumbag or Misunderstoode Artiste?new
Polemic and potty-mouthed rappers singing snot-nosed observations about women's asses are hardly news to any listener. But if you happen to hear the new solo album of one such character -- Julien Pradeyrol, aka Teki Latex of TTC -- you might start to scratch your head.
Montreal Mirror |
Jack Oatman |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Party de Plaisir, Teki Latex
Stars is Losing the Battle, Winning the Warnew
In the skirmishes between bitter and sweet, personal and political, and popcraft and punk ethos, Montreal's soft revolutionaries prevail.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Robyn Hitchcock, Psych-Pop Survivornew
His "children's songs for adults" only improve with age.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robyn Hitchcock
