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So, as promised, Elran Oded (my partner in life and Indyish) and I will now attempt to review the Steel Pulse show we attended together out on the glowy little Bonsecour quay at the edge of the Old Port here in Montreal. Elran and I talked about the show all the way home, and this […]

Every year, as part of the Pop Montreal festival, Puces Pop holds a fashion show sponsored by Le Chateau. 6 emerging Quebec designers present a mini-collection of 6 looks to a panel of judges from the industry and the winner receives a 2000$ prize. Interested in being a part of this years’ show? We’re looking […]

Let’s continue along in our interview series Hot Potato @ Spring Puces Pop.
Or first, catch Episode One and Two.

Luckily, our host, Marilis Cardinal is bilingual so we were able to interview in English and in French depending on each vendor’s preference. Here are the next four interviews, which were done en francais. We last […]

Hello Indyish nation

I would like to cordially invite you all to a special night of musical comedy that I am putting on featuring a good friend of mine from New York, Ben Lerman. He is a uniquely hilarious ukulele troubadour and his uproarious performance is a must-see summer event. I’m extremely excited that […]

As an Indyish member, one of the first things you might try to do would be to upload a picture to your profile page (and maybe write up something cool for your bio text area.)
Now, if you’ve been with us from the beginning you probably remember that we didn’t always have this basic feature. Then, […]

Photos by Marilis Cardinal.
The sky turned a greyish-black at around 9pm on Wednesday evening as I biked down Saint Laurent on my way to catch local post-hardcore rockers L’embuscade play a show along with Caledonia and The Darcys at

Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old […]

someone put a demaes song to a ballroom dance. we thought it was kind of cool - the second half, especially - and posted it in the indyish video section.

When we last left Spring Puces Pop, we were interviewing Marc Simard of Broundoor for the Hot Potato series.
In Episode Two, we’ve got 5 more folks answering the four big questions:
1) Who are you? What do you do?
2) What are the best and worst things about this event?
3) What is the biggest challenge […]