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A Day for all Tastes

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Day Two of Osheaga lays out a festival feast for music connoisseurs

by Catherine Averback
01.08.2011

If Eminem’s mind blowing performance on Friday, July 29, wasn’t enough to demonstrate the diversity of the expanding Osheaga lineup, then the range of acts on Saturday, July 30, certainly was. It’s Day Two, festivalgoers are rested (or not) and at it again, this time for a whopping 35 acts in 10 hours of swaying, [...]

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French coups de coeur

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The Rover helps Montreal festivalgoers make up their mind at Les Francofolies de Montréal

by Andrea Elalouf
10.06.2011

It’s safe to say summer is officially in full swing, and with it finally comes the time to take in some music in the open spaces of downtown Montreal. While the Fringe has already taken over much of the Plateau, in centre-ville Les Francofolies de Montréal are getting geared up to really kick start the [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Shopping the Streets

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The Nuit Blanche sur Tableau Noir festival turns city streets into artist canvases as part of La Grande Fresque de Nuit

by Catherine Averback
10.06.2011

Greeted by hoards of festivalgoers and the resonating sound of reggae drums carrying underground, its nearly impossible to resist the allure of what Tableau Noir’s festivities have to offer right outside the metro doors on Avenue Mont Royal.

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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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Maestros from Mars

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REVIEW: Murcof and AntiVJ’s Simon Geilfus bring their “three-dimensional cosmos” to MUTEK’s A/Visions 2

by Shawn Katz
05.06.2011

Take Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and screen it at the planetarium. Then take the sound up a few notches to a tech-orchestral echo chamber – and don’t forget to up the bass. Now cue the visuals: melt down Kubrick’s model constructions and reassemble, constructing with pure light – metallic floating forms that twitch [...]

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Tobin Unbound

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Review: On its first Nocturne, MUTEK reminds us what it’s all about

by Shawn Katz
03.06.2011

Anyone still searching for the place where art and electronic music intersect got one hell of a demonstration at Metropolis on Wednesday (June 1) as international superstar Amon Tobin again broke new ground for the epic launch of MUTEK’s first Nocturne.

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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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