Pick the odd one out: Roger Ames of Warner. Doug Morris of Universal. Andrew Lack of Sony BMG. David Munns of EMI. Jason Silverstein of 34seventeen. Give up? The first four are millionaires who run record labels that, collectively, comprise 75 per cent of the world music market.
What's "hot" in the "bad stew" of Montreal
As a fourth-year American student, the concept of poutine has always been one of intrigue. Since my arrival in this province, the idea of mixing cheese curds and gravy with french fries has been part of my preoccupation with Québécois culture. Although it has been reported that poutine was a restaurant owner's concoction back in 1957, its hearty goodness boggles the mind.
Fatherfucker Peaches Beggars XL Records Aside from the horrible Photoshop artwork, this album definitely sucks way less than it should. Minimalist electronic beats, synthesizers, and a plethora of sexually driven lyrics make up the foundations of this album.
In the new story, Lola by Night, Lola Benveniste is a young romance writer in Barcelona. She's successful and her books are well-loved, but she's restless, and unwilling to succumb to her publisher's pressure to write an e-book. So when she happens upon a history of correspondence between her father and a businessman in Canada, she jumps at the chance to leave her old life behind and investigate her father's mysteriously sudden death.
After the box-office catastrophe Gigli, it seems that Ben Affleck would do well to get himself a machine that could tell if a movie was going to be good or not. A machine that can predict the future is exactly what he gets in his new movie, Paycheck. Affleck plays Michael Jennings, an engineer who is hired to copy technology for competing companies.
Independents to seek bigger in '04
1) Room on Fire The Strokes The year was out before I decided that The Strokes had the best album of 2003. I was only minimally a fan of the first album because it sounded very repetitive; even the key signatures did not vary from song to song. However, their follow-up album was bold, powerful, punchy, and had some clever guitar hooks.
music Kala Jatha - Carnaval Social Mondial Collaboration of various fusion/Afro-funk troupes Friday, January 9 8:30 pm Club Soda 1225 St-Laurent Pocket Dwellers Jazz-funk Saturday, January 10 Le Swimming 3643 St-Laurent B.B. King The King of Blues Sunday, January 11, 8:00 pm Salle Wilfrid Pelletier at Place des Arts theatre etc.