Montreal Rocks

Marty Plaskon was 15 when he started parallel, sitting alone with Ableton and a small MIDI keyboard, too nervous to try singing. “I also didn’t know how to sing and was way too nervous to try,” he says, “so I started with a lot of sample-based production, including lo-fi hip hop, which I include on my Spotify profile as an homage to my childhood.” He was ...

From the stages of Europe to the heart of Quebec, the trio behind HAIL MARY are levelling up

There is a moment in every video game when you realize you have already made the mistake. The lives are gone, the level is lost, and all you can do is watch the consequences play out before you hit continue. Montreal rock trio Les Shirley have built a career on turn...

There is a moment in the video for “Armageddon” where everything outside the window is literally falling apart, and the guy on the couch just keeps scrolling. Sound familiar?

Toronto’s MADLANDS have released the second single from their forthcoming debut album Symphony For The End of Time, and it hits harder than most things I’ve heard this year, not just s...

Montreal’s Kon-Fusion Release “Arriba de su muro” This Friday with a Full Carnival at Belmont

Kon-Fusion, the Montreal cumbia-punk band formed in 2012 by three Chilean immigrants in pre-gentrification Verdun, release their new album Arriba de su muro on June 5, alongside a launch party at Belmont the same evening.

The band’s f...

After an address mixup sends me sprinting a few blocks through Griffintown, I make it to the hotel where I’m speaking with Maisie Peters ahead of her show in Montreal and the release of her third album, Florescence. I am sweating in earnest. She’s wearing a dove blue mohair sweater and her signature tousled blonde bob. Her luggage lies zipped on the ...