Exceptional programming at this Sunday’s Piknic Électronik sees Berlin-based minimal/tech-house producer Thomas Melchior joining Montreal’s own darlings Pheek and Baya. Relocated to the Jardins des Floralies for the day, the ...Read more →
War games on the Main almost cost me my leg Saturday night, but I’m back to write another column and, if this peg heals up all right, to play Red ...Read more →
With Mutek and Beerfest done and the Jazz Fest, Just For Laughs, Fantasia, Reggaefest, Osheaga, Canada Day, St-Jean and Francofolies all on the horizon, this weekend will surely provide, for ...Read more →
It’s almost impossible to imagine that’s it’s been a full nine years since Mutek’s inception… Nine years marked by the local and international music audience’s gradual acceptance of minimal techno. ...Read more →
With the systematic weakening of many information and entertainment dissemination platforms early this millennium, including radio, television, film and specific physical media such as CDs, cassettes, newspapers, magazines, VCR tapes, ...Read more →
Techno music receives an encouraging kick in the buttocks with the first 13% event this weekend. Through its focus on Pheek’s expertly curated Archipel label, 13% invites Archipel recording artist ...Read more →
What with spring taking its sweet-ass time, and the unseasonably long hockey season, our dark city’s tunesmiths have taken a severe beating of late. Primal energies have been misdirected into ...Read more →
Whether it was Mozart’s introduction of Baroque influences into his treatment of then-current genres of classical music, Brian Wilson’s fusing of trendy surf music with Phil Spector’s "wall of sound" ...Read more →
Cheers to Montreal’s Sub Syndicate, who tore attendees a new auditory asshole with the phenomenal success of last week’s Caspa event, defining a new plateau for the dubstep genre locally. ...Read more →
This filthy city is seething with evil. Spring was supposed to bring flowers, joy and togetherness, not black fever, violence and desperate thievery. Citizens and administrators of this fair city, ...Read more →
Piknic Électronik will be celebrating its 10th season this summer, with 20 events featuring over 100 acts from May 20 to September 30. From the press release: “Those who remember [...]
