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I’ve landed a new gig as a radio host for Mike FM’s Emerging Artist Series.
This is positively delightful because:
a) I’ve never done radio, and am stoked to learn
b) I like interviewing people, and like to talk
c) I get to meet lots of local talent, and they get to meet me
d) I am passionate about anything [...]
I was just rambling about the web this morning while listening to my Leonard Cohen station on Last.Fm internet radio and wondering about the wealth of music websites out there and whether they make it harder or easier to build your Indie Biz or a supportive diverse community when I found this Online Music list [...]
Everybody get happy, even if you’re from Toronto…
Photos by Marilis Cardinal (click individual photos to enlarge)
Perhaps 5 years ago, I first listened to, and was made happy by, The Hidden Cameras. They were poppy, they were bright, and their lyrics made sense.
Flashforward to the weekend before last…Marilis and I caught their Montreal show at Sala [...]
by Ian Christopher Goodman
with guidance from Marcus Macdonald
In these most recent and frenetically developing years of the Information Age, art has also seen some surprising transformations. No longer is it an unusual metier practiced by quirky cave people who travelled deep into mountains’ hearts to paint the exotic menageries in their minds; nor is [...]
There’s is a lovely and excellent little venue here in Montreal called O Patro Vys; where the stage faces the sound board in just such a way it can make soundlovers love again, so I’m told. It’s upstairs-sister to the equally odd, awesome and ostrich-eyed Bily Kun, on Mount Royal west of St. Denis. [...]
From Team Assembly 2.0:
The Indyish Assembly 2.0 is a relay with scriptwriters, actors, illustrators, animators, and musicians working toward the performance of a series of plays and animated GIFs with live musical accompaniment during the Montreal Fringe Festival.
We’re on the hunt for musicians to come help out with the music part of it all. [...]
Indyish Assembly 2.0 Art Relay
For immediate release
…. Assembly Update Announcment here! ….
Announcing Indyish.com’s latest collaborative art project, Assembly 2.0:
a relay for writers, directors, actors, illustrators, musicians and animators.
Assembly 1.0 was the first Indyish art relay experiment, and Indyish’s first teaming with Celtx.com. It ran from Feb- March 2007 and brought together more than 60 Canadian [...]
MOONDATA PRODUCTIONS:
LABproject 36
RYHNA THOMPSON (Moondata) trumpet / wurlitzer / vocals
MILES PERKIN drums / vocals
KEVIN LAING (Besnard Lakes) drums / vocals
ANDREW BARR (The Slip) drums / steel drums / percussion
PIETRO AMATO (Torngat) french horn / fx
PHILIPPE LAUZIER saxophones / bass clarinet
+ guests TBA
Saturday April 14
O Patro Vys
356 Mont-Royal Est.
21h30
$8
eflyer: http://www.moondataproductions.com/posters/apr14.jpg
CURATED BY RYHNA THOMPSON
Ryhna Thompson [...]
This weekend has been a continuous turnstile of handing off Assembly projects. The filmmaking step, which took place last week, was the most difficult stage to find (and keep!) participants. Understandably, filmmakers are more reluctant to take on projects as they need a camera, sound and lighting equipment, editing gear, and have to find actors [...]