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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been booking a tour for my band Brave Radar and our friend Dirty Beaches. A lot of other bands are about to embark on summer tours right now (read about Nightwood’s tour booking diaries, part one and two). I thought it was fitting to post this video of Cryptacize’a […]

The second episode of GUITAR DOLPHINS FROM OUTERSPACE is here!
Guitar Dolphins from Outerspace or GDFO is a podcast where I share my latest musical coups de coeur in french to everyone you wants to hear!
So without further ado, here it is.
GDFO #2!

Hello Friends, how are you this spring? I am with one foot out the door about to start a summer of art shows n travelling.
On this ocation I will be hitting Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Belgium, Egypt, Shambala, Nelson and Burning Man. Mostly for art expos but also some explorations. I will keep you […]

I just got a cute little message from the Winks’ Todd and I thought I would share it for a few simple little reasons. Firstly, two of my favorite bands will be performing (so Elfin Saddle and the Winks) and because discovering new goodies is always fun. While I don’t know much about the Secret […]

This is not so much analysis as it is more like observations. I just got my copy of the Mirror after receiving an email that the BOM issue of the Montreal Mirror was out and man, what a fun little surprise! My blog, the Pregnant Goldfish, somehow managed to crawl into second place for […]

“On Saturday May 17th, Nightwood launch their debut album, the “Big City” CD EP (Grenadine Records) at Casa del Popolo, 4873 St Laurent alongside guests Postcards and Vincat (from BC). Admission to the event is $6 or $10 (including EP). Start time is the proverbial 9pm.”
Last Friday my wife and I were at the […]

Yesterday, Risa and I took the bus up to the garment warehouses of Chabanel in north Montreal to pick up 2 boxes of Matt and Nat bags for the team. It was the first day of Matt and Nat’s Sample Sale and (mainly young and female) folks were lined up along the street and all […]

Mateo M Guerriers brings his ‘digital light painting’ to Montreal via Paris, San Francisco and Dubai, along with pieces in wood, aluminum, paper, prints and video.

galerie [sas] du 15 mai au 14 juin 2008
372 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, espace 416 [map]

Lake of Stew are a local Montreal 8 piece kitchen jam, unplugged bluegrass band who practice around endless pots, performed their earth shaking soulful harmonies at our Indyish City Mess, January 2008, and are finally launching their debut CD May 16 2008 at Sala Rosa.
Here’s a taste of Lake of Stew:
The Sioux by Lake of […]

Worn Fashion Journal is in need of a wedding dress!
(for a photo shoot, of course)

The concept involves destroying the dress, so it can’t be a loaner or a rental, and it can’t be insanely expensive. In fact, the cheaper the better. (We’re hoping I can find something for less than $50, but we’ll see.)
This […]

The Matt and Nat vegan leather designer bags made here in Montreal have a pretty active following, because they’re quite stylin and make you feel like you’re doing some good while looking so fine. They emphasize Choice - it’s written right on their bags: Choose to Make a Difference, a friendly fonty kick towards empowerment. […]

So I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a bit of a fashion column but as soon as I’d try to start writing, I would start off with a serie of photos and have nothing to say. I’ve been taking photos for a bit over a year now and have never been much of […]

I’ve got plans to head over to the park later tonight for a picnic with some friends. Before I leave, I thought I’d share these videos of Amy Winehouse. This is not an ironic, “I love to hate Amy” post. Rather it’s an attempt to present the part of her that is musical.
There are hundreds […]

Somewhere in this clusterfuck a good play is buried. Somewhere mired in the septic swamp of Haunted Hillbilly: the Hiram Woodside Atrocity is a powerful night of theatre. Oh right you probably weren’t there and don’t know what I’m talking about so it is an original musical by Montreal’s Sidemart based on Toronto writer Derek […]

I wish this play had been terrible; this review would be so much easier to write because I could fill the page up with bile. Instead local Pumpkin Theatre’s Short Story Long is so powerfully mediocre in every imaginable respect it leaves me at a loss.
Ok so like the plot and stuff; famous Montreal writer […]

In the 8th grade, when the cool thing to do was to keep up to date on Mix 96’s top 8 at 8, I was listening to the best of the Kinks on cassette tape. Really, I was a very nerdy kid. So it was with a certain amount of smugness that I set out […]

After a few days of feeling sorry for myself after a wallet and cellphone theft, I dragged my ass out of bed, put on a pretty dress and got really really excited to see 2 of my favorite Swedish songstress play some sweet songs on stage and take my new camera lense out on a […]

This is a post from the morning after the Kinks Konvention tribute night… that I did not attend. I’m feeling freaked out at having made the decision not to go, but a few factors made it necessary, and a few other factors hopefully make it ok:
My love is sick, and he’s never sick. Last […]

My band Nightwood is launching the Big City E.P. next weekend (more soon) and will be kicking off a small Ontario and Quebec tour, our first ever! We’re super happy to be a trio because that means we fit snuggly into Erin’s vehicle. I’m going to bring my super8 camera and diary to […]

Blog to the Future is the name of a new column I’m starting on Indyish. With nearly 2000 posts published on the Indyish blog over 2 years, I thought it made sense to start pulling some buried gold back to the top in case you missed it the first time round, and also because it’s […]