Montreal Rocks

Love, in Body Type‘s world, lives in the small stuff. The unglamorous, easily overlooked gestures that quietly hold a relationship together, or quietly give it away. That is the territory Sophie McComish mines on “Sick Bag,” the darkly comic track trailing the band’s new album. “This song is kinda the culmination of several relationships that ended up the...

Good Shows has lined up one of the summer’s more compelling indie bills for La Sala Rossa on Thursday, July 30. Nap Eyes, Ribbon Skirt and Packs share the stage, with Montreal’s Fireball Kid on DJ duties to open the night.

The bill spans the country. Ribbon Skirt and Fireball Kid are Montreal acts, Nap Eyes form...

The line arrived before the song did. When MINOE sat down to write Shell, the Nova Scotia-born, now Toronto-based singer-songwriter did not reach for a melody or a metaphor. She reached for the sentence that had been following her around. “The first line that showed up was ‘what a waste of 24’ because it was something that had been circling my brain for a w...

Back in March, Victories bassist Christopher made a promise on a Montreal Rocks interview: hit 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and the band would write a song for the Taylor Swift fans. A love song, he clarified, for the Swifties.

They blew past the target. Victories now sit at 26,000 monthly listeners, and on July 3rd they pai...

Sometime in the late 1970s, a young factory worker from outside Chicago joined his first bar band. They named it Lazy, after the Deep Purple song. The guitar player, a child prodigy, was named Steve Walsh.

Not the Steve Walsh. A Steve Walsh, from Western Springs, Illinois.

Decades later, Ronnie Platt would...