Five days of Pop Montreal leaves indie fans with new iPod tunes
A wicked cold snap ushered in what many Montrealers see as the last hurrah of the festival season: the indie-music clusterfuck that is Pop Montreal. Winds of change were also hitting the burgeoning festival, which at seven years old is experiencing some serious growing pains.
A look inside the city's DJ phenomenon from A-Trak to Zoobizarre
Imagine you are a McGill student. This may be tricky, but give it a shot. You've just had the most absurdly difficult week of your life. Your compounding due dates were further compounded by a lack of concentration - kudos to the second-rate drummer living in the apartment below you. To top it all off, your wench of a roommate unloaded a year's worth of her emotional baggage onto your emotionally stable doorstep. You need to unload. You just want to dance. By living in Montreal, you have either intentionally or unintentionally situated yourself within a breeding ground for some of the world's most talented DJs. Nights of fruitless bopping to the beats of a best friend's boom-box are a thing of the past.
The newly released film Blindness by Fernando Meirelles (City of God), based on the amazing book by Jose Saramago, is receiving angry reviews from a group who hasn't even seen it. The National Federation of the Blind is slamming the movie, saying that it depicts blind people as "incompetent, filthy, vicious and depraved," and that it enforces the stereotype that blind people are helpless and less than human.
Red carpets roll out for international film festival
Those with an observant eye have probably noticed posters with a half-woman half-dog creature plastered all over the city. They look intriguing, but there's a good chance you have no idea what they are for. The werewolf-esque images have little to do with film or Montreal, yet they're advertising the dynamic event set to take the city by storm on October 8; Montreal's 37th annual Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few. What the Boat Gave the River. With their modern folk beats and soulful lyrics, Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few's new album, a companion disc to their 2007 release, What The River Gave The Boat, will make you want to experience Berube's intimate sound in a live venue.
Oct 7-13 Tuesday: Film. From the Basement. Scotiabank Theatre. Series two of the Fall Concert Series is a high- definition showing of stripped down concert material from Jarvis Cocker, Jamie Lidell, Beck, Sonic Youth, and Jose Gonzalez. Like a concert but with comfy chairs and no mosh-pit (although you could try starting one).