Here we go to the Indyish Show!
To give ourselves a bit of a break after an intense season of shows we decided to make our next Indyish Monthly Mess a compact little mini show. We’re calling it the Mixtapes Mini Mess. The theme is Mixtapes. The venue is Blizzarts. The show, if I do [...]
Girl Talk is coming up soon in Montreal, Nov 13 at Metropolis. Watch the man dirvish and mashup himself into laptop oblivion!
More info on Girl Talk? Check out the downloads on his Illegal Music site (you have to login).
Photo is by docmostereyes.
Ok, so I was googling for Brazillian Dub (which is how all good stories start, right?) when much to my delight I discovered these Arthur Joly videos (the first via soundorvision.wordpress.com.) They are a mix of stop motion animation, nice beats and dub singing, super 8 footage vj’ing…I’m not totally sure these are all the [...]
If you caught this interview I did with George Blott, then you know why we’re excited about Meeting of Styles, the Graffiti convention converging on Montreal this weekend. Curated by our friends at the beautiful Yves Laroches gallery, this will bring a lot of new incredible art to Montreal, not to mention quite the fricken [...]
We are throwing a party to launch our clothing line.
It will be a burlesque costume ball, so dress up! There will be pin ups, burlesque performers, some random performances,
The Lady Like Kittens and Vixens, free shots for the vixens, and cup cakes for the kittens, good tunes, and fun times.
Le Rockette, 4479 Rue St.Denis
Thursday, August [...]
This Friday, April 6, LOOSE JOINTS is proud to host two very big talents from the italo/electro and neo-disco movements. SPECULATOR (William Thomas Burnet) and RON MORELLI are visiting from New York for their first Montreal DJ appearances, and it promises to be a memorable show. Both are active members of the Cybernetic Broadcasting [...]
I dig this DJ collective Loose Joints, recently sent my way by Burlesque star and collage artist Mel Garcia. I like their sound and I like their writing on their websites - their collective feels unpretentious and interesting and smart about disco. Here’s one of the lads on the subject of Italo in a recent [...]
risa: hey! i have a question about copyright law: where would i find up to date info on copyright law as it applies to music, specifically sampling and mc’ing, in canada?
no mean dream:
I don’t really know. You could try and find an annotated copyright act.
Or any recent treatise on copyright. Hang on let me look [...]