Tag Archive for the term: casa del popolo

I went yesterday with Risa to look at Il Motore, the new venue opening on Jean Talon. Il Motore is a collaboration between Montreal show promotors, tour bookers, and label: Blue Skies Turn Black, and the owners of the staple indie rock venues, restaurant/cafe, hotel, and Spanish social club: La Sala Rossa and Casa del […]

If you were hanging out anywhere in the Mile-End on the idyllic, sunny Saturday that was July 12th, chances are you dropped in at the Pomme-Pomme craft fair at Sala. Then, after longingly fondling fabric squares and crocheted penis-puppets, you’re likely to have done a few reps of the following: guichet, Pomme-Pomme, Casa/coffee, Pomme-Pomme, bike […]

Some quotes and extensions thereof from the respective members of tonight’s fantastic show at Casa Del Popolo for the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival…

MV + EE with the Golden Road: In fact still orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt ‘mv’ Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika ‘ee’ Elder, the CEO […]

I was pleased to discover upon arriving at Casa Del Popolo this past Wednesday that the Marissa Nadler cancellation had opened up a spot for some good friends of mine to play at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival this year. For what was billed as a Rotating Sphere and The Festering Gases presentation, we […]

From the miniature deciduous forests of Japan and Canada, where toy pianos, glockenspiels and musical saws grow, Elfin Saddle emerges alongside an army of imaginary little friends, to hold our ears captive with their magical sounds.
Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie recently joined forces with the good beings at Villa Villa Nola to release their Water […]

AGMs are fun and empowering! Sometimes there are cupcakes, too.

Head and Hands is looking for new members for its Board of Directors! This is an amazing opportunity to get involved with an 40 year-old grassroots organization that’s created The Sense Project, Faggity Ass Fridays, Street Vibes, The Serve Beach Volleyball Tournament and tons more!
Head & […]

On Sunday when I arrived at Casa del Popolo, I had no idea what to expect, and no idea what I was in for. Drawing me to the 15th soiree of Festival Suoni Per Il Popolo’s programming were Ian Ferrier, Pharmakon and a mysterious Sadio Sisshoko, who I considered to be opening the show from […]

Suoni 2008 poster by Bree Ree - watch for a podcast interview coming soon!

Over the past week I’ve had the opportunity to do some accidental interviews with organizers of and performers in the Suoni Per il Popolo music festival currently underway here in Montreal. Sometimes you go find an interview, and sometimes it finds you. […]

I guess I don’t really feel like June as a month has really begun. Maybe it’s the rain, or maybe it’s simply that I’m not focusing on “June” so much as on “festival season” — so why not continue our emerging tradition of Suoni Per Il Popolo preview posts?
Here’s how it works, in case you […]

The second night of the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival brings two great guitarists together for an evening of overtones, sliding and string picking…
Loren Connors and Harris Newman
Monday June 02, 2008
Casa Del Popolo
(4873 St-Laurent, Montreal)
8PM
$13/ $15
Loren Connors is a Brooklyn, New York based guitarist, composer and improviser. His sound is a raw treatment […]