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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...


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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 ...


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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...


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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...


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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, ...


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