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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,

I arrived in Montreal this morning, and have been spending the day leisurely sightseeing. A little less than 2 weeks from now, this plaza, the Place des Arts, will be

"This is like our first proper show, ever," David says midway through The Piledrivers' set tonight at The Living Room on Ludlow. "We're used to playing in Bushwick lofts and

I've previously sung the praises of the New York summer, where everything seems to move outdoors and the music is, more often than not, free. From downtown's River to River

Happiness = good music within walking distance of home. After the show at Open Source, I wandered with some others down Fifth Ave. to Roots Cafe: a Southern-flavored coffee shop that