Brother Ali's Appetite for Instruction
Montreal Mirror |
October 12, 2007
Tags: Brother Ali, The Undisputed Truth
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Iranian-American Comic Maz Jobrani Helps East Meet Westnew
From making fun of his heritage by saying Iranians refuse to be called anything but Persian (like the cat, he says) to teaching the crowd how to pronounce the current president’s name (Ahmed I'mma-need-a-job), Jobrani serves as a light-hearted diplomat in the ever-growing gap between the East and West.
Montreal Mirror |
Narcel X |
07-11-2008 |
Performance
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Public Enemy's Chuck D on Nas, Obama and Rhetoricnew
"I think for about six months after, if he gets elected, there will be a sense of euphoria all around the world. Then the real world will set in. He might take some right-wing stances, he's going to try to appease certain elements in society that I don't necessarily gel with. But also, the support and belief in him could lead those factions to sway away from the right."
Montreal Mirror |
Narcel X |
06-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tracking Down Looted Iraqi Artnew
Iraqi-born art historian Nada Shabout searches for her country's lost creative works.
Montreal Mirror |
Narcel X |
11-16-2007 |
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Since his days leading the charge as the singer of Black Flag and the Rollins Band, Henry Rollins has hardly had a wink of sleep through the majority of his adult life. He has become equally known as a spoken-word performer.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
03-19-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
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How Dancing Desert Stars Informed YACHT's New Albumnew
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Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
03-07-2010 |
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Tags: YACHT, See Mystery Lights
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
Brooklyn's Clare and the Reasons Make Charmed Chamber Popnew
Clare Muldaur’s honey-sweet vocals and fanciful soundscapes may belie the sophistication of her compositions and her husband’s arrangements of brass, strings and woodwinds, but it’s that levity and wonder that make Clare and the Reasons so charming.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
01-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Neo-mod Brit Brats the Arctic Monkeys are Slowing Down, Growing Up and Branching Outnew
A crusty British music scribe whose name I am unable to recall recently theorized that no one likes the Arctic Monkeys—until they actually listen to one of their records. But as soon as they were built up as the saviors of British rock music, they were knocked down.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
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