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The old line goes, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
Montreal's recently-reformed Statue Park are messing around with that very idea: they're musicians who write music about architecture. The dancing part is optional, but encouraged.
"I think there are a lot of similarities between ...
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Windish Agency
It takes a lot of time and effort to record an album. It also takes a lot of will to destroy it before it gets released. And yet a year ago, that's exactly what Montreal's No Joy did.
"Last year at this time we wrote and recorded an album and were going in all kinds of weird directions and experimenting," No Joy's Jasamine ...
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To some, pop music is a way of life. To others, it's the dirtiest of dirty words. Portugal. the Man bassist Zachary Carothers knows which side of that fence he's on. Discussing the band's most recent release, In the Mountain in the Cloud, Carothers minced no words:
"We do want to make pop music," he told Spinner.
Not just any pop ...
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Listen Harder
"Breakup" records are as much as part of the idiom of music culture as love songs. Weezer's Pinkerton is still a go-to for many in the mood to wallow in the abject misery of lost love. Parlovr's Alex Cooper, though disdainful of the term, acknowledges his band's new record Kook Soul fits into that paradigm.
"It's what gets ...
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With Broken Social Scene on "indefinite hiatus," there's a hole in the middle of the Arts & Crafts records roster. Broken Social Scene has always been a sort of metonym for Arts & Crafts -- without them, the venerable Toronto label was left with something of an identity crisis.
This brought intrigue to last night's CMW/CMF ...
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First You Get the Sugar
You might think of 'The Simpsons' reference when you see Montreal-based First You Get the Sugar's name in print, but hearing them play live will change all that.
Last night at their CMW performance at Toronto's lively disco ball-adorned Painted Lady, many people got Sugar-coated. First You Get the Sugar's style ...
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Even punk rock icons age and, as they do, they pick up new hobbies and habits. NOFX's Fat Mike is no exception. His growing-older hobby? Golf.
While touring in Quebec, recently, he carved out some time to go golfing. He admitted, however, that his game needs some work.
"It seems like I've been drinking and ...
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