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Old Blood LP by Dirty Beaches

Postcards cassette

photos by Doug Hollingworth

When I grow up, I want to be a backup singer. After having seen Rose, Gwenno, Becki -AKA The Pipettes- with backing band the Cassettes on Friday night, I was very very tempted to write this entire review in backup singer-ese: lots of “ba-ba-bas” and “ooooh-weee-oohs” and “shalalas”, some enthusiastic handclaps [...]

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MINI TOUR ENDS WITH A PAIR OF MTL SHOWS
Montreal, November 12th 2007 – Building on the success of their critically acclaimed introductory acoustic EP Winter Keep Us Warm, Montreal’s acoustic indie rock band The Darling DeMaes gets set to make a final splash in Montreal to finish this busy year on a good [...]

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. [...]

The newest release from Montreal indie label Ships at Night is by loved local group Orillia Opry. It’s called lighthouse for stragglers’ eyes, and it fades-in as it starts to an electric guitar grazing sad on a beach at night in marching 4/4.
Then Daniel Noble’s voice lifts into the dusty dark scape like a [...]

Still collecting thoughts Post Pop. It was indeed a whirlwind of a festival that took the city by storm, almost on par with the Jazz Fest’s cyclonic power. The Gazette featured buildup for days. Young folk were abuzz with show-goin’ and program checkin’. This here blog got some serious bloggin’ love [...]

Tonight Alanah and I spotted what may have been the most ironic of all Ironic Mustaches I have ever seen. It was spotted just one hour ago at a Pop Montreal show, at one of my favoritist of favorite Montreal venues, Casa del Popolo.
Before I begin blogging on my Fabulous Day of Pop [...]

We’re playing a show at Pop Montreal this year and we hope you can make it out. There’s lots happening that night, so stop by for a beer and pick up our new CD and catch a few tunes and say hi and then run off and see a million other great shows with us.
The [...]

And now, a short poem by me.
Sure, Pop will be filled with worthy shows to attend,
but I’m here to shamelessly plug our Indyish friend,
More Or Les,
Will be posessed,
by hostiness,
to, um, no excess…
http://moreorles.ca/
Les will be a part of the Pop-monster (Good Monster, not Bad Monster) this Thursday at 9pm. He won’t be alone: “Additional flyness provided [...]