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I was a bit taken aback by the immediate and overwhelming reaction to Michael Jackson's passing earlier today. To be frank, I didn't understand it. Really? Michael Jackson? I mean, […]

This city needs another festival like a hole in its head, which may explain to some degree the scaled-down version of Montreal's first-ever Fete de la Musique, the day-long festival

More than anything, I've been impressed with the bilingual nature of Montreal, the ability of its inhabitants to effortlessly switch between French and English. Like this charming folk singer, who

I managed to make it back to Centro Gallego last night in time to catch Nicole Mitchell's Suono per il Popolo set with her Chicago-based band, Truth or Dare. The music was described

Pop Montreal is known as an Anglophone festival, but this is Quebec, and so it only made sense to have a couple of French-speaking acts on the bill at yesterday's

I'm not really sure what "pink" noise is, but Dapinknoise sound like a cross between David Bowie, Kraftwerk, and Tupac (or, according to the comic who introduced them, "like the

On stage at the Parc des Ameriques: Les Ghost's of Ghazals, who sound like any number of Brooklyn or Baltimore scream bands, with their wailing guitars and throbbing electro-rays. Except

So, I was bummed to find out that today's free Parc de Popolo concert was cancelled on account of rain, but walking back down Boulevard Ste-Laurent, I come across this

Montreal must be a tough place to live in the winter, because now that it's (almost) summer, everything seems to be spilling out onto the streets. On my rounds today,