Tag Archive for the term: phonopolis

Total wicked party at Il Motore featuring mini sets by Handsome Furs, Julie Doiron, Miracle Fortress, The Luyas, Elfin Saddle, Adam and the Amethysts, Shapes and Sizes, Snailhouse, Special Noise, Nut Brown + Patrick Gregoire.
January 8, 8:30
8 bucks anyways, which aint so bad
179 Jean Talon O.
xo
Phonopolis & Pome

That’s right, Phonopolis will be hosting a Christmas Party on Friday, December 19th probably around 6pm or so. Complete with creamy nog, and musical performances by Eleanora Thompon (Caila of Shapes & Sizes, Miracle Fortress), Baby Eagle (Steve of the Constantines), Mess (Jessie Stein of the Luyas, Miracle Fortress), Kara Keith and others…

Montreal’s My People Sleeping will join forces with The Sunparlour Players (Toronto, Outside Music) for an evening of beautiful indie-folk in the Phonopolis basement.

It’s going to be this Thursday, October 23rd, it’ll start at 6pm. Phonopolis is at 5403A ave. du Parc.

http://www.myspace.com/mypeoplesleeping
http://www.myspace.com/thesunparlour

OK, I don’t know if anyone else is doing this… but here goes, here’s my picks for POP… or what I would go to if I had unlimited energy and funds.
October 1st
My night would start at 8pm, I’d check out Growing at Metropolis, stay for a couple songs from Hot Chip, but would have to [...]

Yes, that’s right, new instores in the Phonopolis basement for your listening pleasure.
Firstly, the fine people at Passovah productions will be hosting a pay-what-you-can show:
Saccidananda
Cactus
Flesh Alliance
Sunday, July 27th
3pm
http://www.myspace.com/saccidananda
http://www.myspace.com/fleshalliance
Secondly,
Victoria’s sinister carnival band, Hank & Lily will be playing an acoustic set in the basement, with Toronto’s pure-pop quartet, The Bicycles.
Hank Pine & Lily Fawn
The Bicycles
Tuesday, [...]

Growing up in Victoria didn’t have that much to offer as far as shows. Yeah, I know No Means No is from there, but their music was a little brutal and unforgiving for a soft high-schooler like myself. One of my favorite local bands at that time was Dixie’s Death Pool. And I wasn’t the [...]

This Saturday (May 10th), Jordan Robson-Cramer (Magic Weapon, Sunset Rubdown) and Mussaver (Katherine Peacock-Telefauna, Coal Choir) will play solo sets in the Phonopolis basement. It’ll start at 3pm or shortly after and should be wrapped up by around 5pm. It should be really fun, JRC recently played me his new stuff, which sounds awesome, [...]

Halifax dreamy folk-pop trio, The Ghost Bees, will grace the Phonopolis basement with a performance of their beautiful pop tunes.
The show will start at 5:30pm on this Friday, April 25th.
Phonopolis is located at 5403A Parc, near St. Viateur.

http://www.myspace.com/ghostbees

Having recently opened an independent record store, I’ve quickly become acquainted with the challenges that face small stores like mine, and the independent record industry in general. Although I would by no means describe these challenges as insurmountable, I do think they warrant a discussion of the way we do business.
As many of you know, [...]

Hey, I guess a good place to start would be to introduce myself. My name’s Nathan, I run the Phonopolis record store at 5403a Parc. This is my first post on Indyish. I’ll be blogging a bit about stuff that comes into the store, shows and other stuff, with an emphasis on Montreal bands. [...]