I got a nice surprise in my email today. I’d never heard of Alejandra Ribera before but the Montreal singer songwriter has a lovely voice. I hate to use the cliche but ‘smoky’ is the only word that really fits. According to Ken at Killbeat, The video was “woven together with footage from a group…
Montreal’s Stars Celebrate the Defeat of DOMA With New Video
Yesterday the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was shot down by the United States Supreme Court. Today, in celebration Montreal’s Stars released their video for ‘Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Get It’ from their latest album the North. This is actually the 2nd official video for the song. Don’t…
John Baird vs. the Rest of the World
The problem with being a rabid ideologue and refusing to cooperate with anyone, ever is that eventually it comes back to bite you. Since Harper came to power Canada has lost its status as a good faith negotiator and its reputation as a peacekeeper. Harper has pulled out of international treaties, broken off diplomatic relations…
John Baird vs. the Rest of the World
The problem with being a rabid ideologue and refusing to cooperate with anyone, ever is that eventually it comes back to bite you. Since Harper came to power Canada has lost its status as a good faith negotiator and its reputation as a peacekeeper. Harper has pulled out of international treaties, broken off diplomatic relations…
New Kara Keith Album March 4
Montreal via Calgary’s Kara Keith is set to release her first full length CD “Vision’s Fugitive’s” is set to hit the world on March 4. The album was recorded at TheeMightyHotel2Tango in Montreal by Howard Bilerman. Billerman has previously recorded over 250 albums including titles by Arcade Fire, the Dears, Basia Bulat and Bell Orchestre.…
Peripheral Visionaries: Young Galaxy’s Blog and Mixtapes
Montreal’s Young Galaxy has a blog up called Peripheral Visionaries (I’ll get it in the aggregators soon). Along with the new blog Stephen Ramsay (vocals and guitar for YG) is posting a monthly mixtape. It is not, like Herohill all Canadian indie stuff, but if you are interested in what Stephen R. likes and is…
Young Galaxy: Hipsters Are Annoying
Steve from Young Galaxy posted a new note to their Myspace just to let everyone know that the band was still around and has been working on a new album that they hope to release in the new year. Steve also did everyone the favor of pointing the way to an Adbusters article that “had…
Happy Birthday To Indyish
Indyish, a Montreal based “network of independent artists working in music, film, fashion, fine arts, and publishing” officially turns two on Saturday. From theHour.ca Indyish is an artistic community billing itself as “a loose affiliation of folks who make stuff.” The stuff in question is pretty much anything, from clothes to jewellery to reading material…
RVT: Ghislain Poirier – Hit & Red
New Video from Montreal’s Ghislain Poirier for the song ‘Hit & Red’.
Montreal, Vancouver and How-To sections added
I’ve been busy working on the site today. There are new aggregators for Vancouver and Montreal (I’m looking at other cities and more will follow at some point). There is also a new How To section, fairly small for now but it will grow and will be dedicated to tutorials on how to…all kinds of…