After beginning to believe it wasn’t going to happen, all of a sudden Raekwon is on the phone. Sounding exactly like Raekwon. When typing out the transcript, there were several ...Read more →
Over dinner recently, an aunt and uncle of mine explained how they’d had an entire weekend affected by a Friday night viewing of Up the Yangtze (directed by Montreal filmmaker ...Read more →
A long, long time ago, some friends and I ran an event promotion company that put on DJ and hip-hop shows (sigh, "raves"). We lost a lot of money, girlfriends ...Read more →
Devil Eyes are a great, noise-y no wave garage band from Montreal. They’ve got a new bass player (Emilor from Thundrah and 900 other bands) and a trunk full of ...Read more →
User-generated content is being increasingly used to fill up the Internet’s pages. Everywheremag.com, a travel site fuelled entirely by reader submissions, is thought to be where we’re headed. This is ...Read more →
It appeared on the horizon this year as it does every other – earlier then expected, slightly unwelcome, but quite clearly here nonetheless. Fuckin’ St-Patty’s day. Much like the mythical ...Read more →
As I write this, I find myself balls-deep in one of the most unpleasant flu bugs I’ve ever had. Throat like sandpaper dipped in vinegar and glass. Head feels like ...Read more →
I don’t have a witty anecdote to pimp into introductory service. What I do have is Seven Night Stand’s latest musical obsession: France’s Soko. Soko is French actress Stéphanie Sokolinski, ...Read more →
Finding out what’s happening in Lauryn Hill’s head (and why it’s delaying the release of the classic-record-that-never-was) has become Seven Night Stand’s holiest of grails. So when I recently got ...Read more →
Given the tone of the rest of this column, it seems only right to start with some straight-up listings of those upcoming shows untrampled by thematic concerns. Friday night, Feb. ...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 [...]
