Montreal Rocks

In the fall of 2024, Spencer Krug came home from a Sunset Rubdown tour and tried to rewrite a song. The original, “Listening to Music in Cars,” had been a warm piece of reunion nostalgia, written the previous year when getting back on the road with old bandmates still felt like a good idea. The tour changed that. “A gruelling three week album tour brought...

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is officially back, and downtown already feels like it’s running on a different clock. The 46th edition is on June 25 to July 4, 2026, with 350+ concerts and two-thirds of them free, spread across the Quartier des spectacles and a maze of indoor rooms that can turn a random night into the best show you catch ...

Seven years ago, Crown Lands were the two-person opener at the Corona Theatre, loud enough to make you double-take. When I bumped into them that night, I told them two things: they made a lot of noise for a duo, and the next time I saw them they’d be headlining.

They laughed when I brought it up this week. Then they basically proved the point al...

The kit is gone and you feel it in your chest before you register it consciously. BIG|BRAVE open in grief or in hope with sustained guitar drone and Liam Andrews’ bass carrying the rhythm alone, and the architecture holds. It takes a minute to understand what you’re listening to. Whether that minute is unsettling or clarifying depends on how much...

The Montreal singer-drummer-songwriter is building her “Empowered Pop” movement one perfectly-timed beat at a time.

There is a moment, sitting in a trailer at Complexe Pointe-Claire after a headline set, when Gloria Gaynor offers you a chicken wing. Most people would have been too starstruck to even eat. Jordyn Sugar took the wing, ...