Tag Archive for the term: live music (Page: 2)

Check out the great article in today’s Gazette about the Remember Griffintown show! We’re proud to be a part of this beautiful event, helping out with gear and food and tent advice, things like that, plus our MonthlyMess show: a full day-into-late-night party on Saturday the 13th. Working with the organizers has been a delight [...]

All Tomorrow’s Parties have been urging acts to play their great albums in full since about 2005, and the practice is catching on. I don’t know about you guys, but I think this is a sensible and sweet idea (I know Christine enjoyed it at Pitchfork last month.) Liz Phair offers the best explanation for [...]

Today the big free “Jazz” Festival show for Canada day is the triumphant return of Montreal’s favorite gleeful-odd-dance-jam band, Bran Van 3000. You can watch the show live from your computer actually, if you’re not feeling the massive crowds - check here for details. Since Sara Johnston released her solo album independently and put it [...]

Another brilliant and adorable act playing our Indyish Mess Showcase tonight (May 29, 2008 - Travel Mess at Off Inter Arts) is Fraser MacDougal aka FM HI LOW, coming in from Peterborough Ontario with the insanely radio-ready pop / reggae / sweet sweet boy soul.
Here’s some videos if you don’t believe me:
First a song [...]

One of the amazing, heart warming acts playing our Indyish showcase tomorrow night is the Ladies of the Canyon! Here they are, all sweet sounding, dear and joyful and Joni Mitchell honouring, in studio, and in interview:

Announcing: The Travel Mess!
May 29th, 2008 7pm
OFF Interarts, 5145 Saint-Laurent
Pay What You Can, Suggested Donation 5$
(includes original, ready-to-send postcards)
This spring, Indyish invites you to celebrate that glorious free-reeling traveling feeling, all without leaving Montreal. The Travel Mess brings together an interdisciplinary lineup of indie art, including music, storytelling, theatre, photography, painting and comedy, with an [...]

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 [...]

I am enjoying drawing out the memory of our Indyish Sugar Shack Mess with these bits of live show audio, I hope you’re digging it too. For me the night was spectacularly impressive because preparing food for 100+ people was NOT something I was prepared to do, and I was thrilled with the success of [...]

Here’s the latest installment in the Kinks Tribute series. This time we’ve got answers from YsaeL, the bass player from Chocolat. Have a listen to their track “Sois Belle” from Piano Elegant:
Sois Belle by Chocolat

-Why are YOU doing a Kinks tribute?
I work with chantale (drums in sunday sinners) and she told me about the [...]

Bionic, founded by the wry and intense Jonathan Cummins, are bringing their catchy, lovely, earloud, hardhit pain to The Kinks tribute May 10 at Les Saints, a most thunderous local basement venue…
Black Blood by Bionic

-Hi Bionic, why are YOU doing a Kinks tribute?
I guess like anybody we love The Kinks and think Ray Davies is [...]