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MUSIC

Everybody’s Working for The Weeknd

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Fans line up behind Toronto-based R&B artist who defies comparison

by Rima Hammoudi
20.03.2012

This time last year, The Weeknd dropped the first instalment of what has now been dubbed The Balloon Trilogy. Each of the nine-track mixtapes were released in 2011, just a few months apart, and all available for free download via the artist’s website. To describe what ensued as a flash in the pan would be [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Cozy in the Head

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REVIEW: Indie-folk artist Mark Bérubé works the Savoy to maximum comfort effect at the Jazz Festival

by Dave Jaffer
28.06.2011

Over the years I’ve been involved in various conversations (read: arguments) about the best venues in Montreal. I have always stuck to my guns and said Cabaret la Tulipe. I probably always will. But it merits mention that in the past few years, the Savoy du Metropolis has shot up in the ranks like Rory [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Purple Reign

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REVIEW: Prince wows lucky Jazz Fest concertgoers at lengthy and eccentric opening concert

by Alexander Ostroff
26.06.2011

Prince is notorious for being many things – an eccentric, a virtuoso, an unpronounceable symbol – but leaving his four-hour extravaganza at Metropolis in the early hours of Saturday, June 25, the description that seemed most apt was a generous musician, in every sense of the word.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Full circle in an Electric Carousel

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REVIEW: Canadian techno icon Plastikman returns to the place where it all began

by Shawn Katz
06.06.2011

Richie Hawtin’s famed Plastikman Live has finally come home. Nearly ten years in the making, this native icon of electronic music has returned to the place where it all began to present the Canadian premiere of his latest performance project, which has already taken the electronic world by storm. The least that can be said [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

MUTEK mon amour

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Internationally acclaimed electronic music festival pushes up its levels

by Shawn Katz
01.06.2011

As if last weekend’s record-breaking launch of the Piknic Electronik season weren’t enough, Montreal’s growing legions of the electronica-obsessed are being treated

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FILM

Restoring Lang Epic: Genius At Work

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Metropolis, Cinema du Parc

by James Gartler
12.08.2010

As the lights came up in Salle Wilfred-Pelletier at 10 pm on July 28th, the capacity crowd rose to their feet in unanimous approval. Movie lovers of all ages had turned out in droves to take in the final film of this year’s Fantasia festival, and from the five-minute long standing ovation, they clearly felt [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Fantasia’s Mixed Bag

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Gallants, A Frozen Flower, La Meute

by James Gartler
28.07.2010

Fantasia crowds are lively. They hoot and holler and laugh and boo. “And also,” in the words of Nevermore director Stuart Gordon, “…they’ve seen everything!” In case you haven’t partaken in the three-week long celebration of celluloid known as Fantasia, relax. Rover is here to offer reviews of three flicks from decidedly different genres: a [...]

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MUSIC

Soundtracking Metropolis Live

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Light Made Louder, L'Inspecteur Epingle

by Julia Vyse
13.07.2010

Montreal jazz/indie project Light Made Louder comes to the Plateau with projectors, films and a lot of music. The band is led by bassist Paul Van Dyk and features a quintet of talented musicians doing something different with their sound. The music is inspired by short films that are projected live during shows. The last [...]

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MUSIC

Death Metal Comes To Life

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Cannibal Corpse, Metropolis

by D.W. Lee
19.12.2009

“A lot of people get turned off this band, for whatever reason, before they know us,” Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O’Brien said before the band hit the stage at Metropolis, as part of Hatebreed’s Decimation of the Nation Tour. “But when you go out and see what the band can do live, it’s a different [...]

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MUSIC

Expect the Unexpected From Spektor

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Regina Spektor, Metropolis

by Amy Morris
15.09.2009

Everyone is using social networking these days and musician Regina Spektor, in town for a show at Metropolis Sept. 17, is no exception. Spektor’s promo team uses Facebook and Myspace pages to pump up fans for her new album Far, released this past June, as well as her upcoming shows. The Russian-Jewish, Manhattan-grown singer-songwriter is [...]

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