Subject: Montreal

• St. Vincent on Fire (Well, Arcade Fire, Anyway)

  April 18, 2007

• Sorta Winning

  October 5, 2006

• The Other Drew

  May 19, 2006

• Secret Machines: All You Need is Bono

  March 27, 2006

• North Dallas is Good for the Jews

  June 16, 2008

• Good Friday: The Feds, Astronautalis, King Khan & BBQ Show, The Eagles, Jack Ingram, Dale Watson, Do For It Records' Launch Party, I Love Math, Nouns Group

  Kinda an interesting weekend upon us, now that it's the end of the day on Friday and all. While there's a lot happening early next week, the weekend's kinda dry as big, big shows go. Anyway, onto the show's we already told you about... Tonight, there's a big one (Of Montreal and Icy Demons at House of Blues) and two interesting smaller ones (Stumptone, Nervous Curtains and Jack With One Eye at Lola's; THe BAcksliders, Forgotten Space and the Olospo reunion at Club Dada). On Saturday night,

  November 14, 2008

• Weekend Roundup: Of Montreal, Aspersions, B.B. King

  The old gypsy woman peered into her crystal ball Friday afternoon. “I am seeing for this weekend a very boring time, not much happening,” she said in a low and ominous voice. “I am seeing cold, hibernation, few video postings.” “Yeah, yeah whatever. What about my fame? My fortune? How about answering the questions I asked you?” the girl across from her exclaimed. “I don’t know,” the old woman said. “Pete’s column didn’t tell me. But don’t play the stock market, don�

  November 17, 2008

• Dallas, Do the Rorschach

  Friend of Unfair Park Steve Z. sends this link to "the always interesting Strange Maps blog," which, last week, offered "City Maps As A Rorschach Test." The original source for the item is a 1983 Dallas Morning News illustration comparing the sizes and populations of cities across the world, with Dallas among a lot that also includes Montreal, London, Chicago and so forth -- a dozen in all. (The original artwork, turns out, has been preserved on this site, beneath the heading "Dallas: Some I

  November 18, 2008

• Bonus MP3: True Widow -- "Sunday Driver"

  Steve VisneuDallas' own True Widow has, well, basically come out of nowhere in the past couple months to fill the surprisingly heavy void within the city's shoegaze/slowcore/dirge-rock scene--and fill it quite capably, thanks. We reviewed the band's just-released self-titled debut a few weeks back, and for what it's worth, my take on the record doesn't line up with Jesse Hughey's review. Don't get me wrong; I see what he's saying. This is a heavy, slow-moving, and, at times, crushingly brutal re

  December 18, 2008

• Today In Music News: Zooey Deschanel's Engaged, Axl's Touring, Bands Need Beds and Jay-Z Got A Problem

  Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 30, 2008... My life is over. Yes, it's over. The indie powerhouses known as Zooey Dechannel (She & Him) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) are apparently (read: allegedly) engaged. He apparently popped the question on Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year my ass. I loved you Zooey!  It seems the boys in "Guns N Roses" are going to tour for at least two years. Maybe. And it may start in March. We'll see.

  December 30, 2008

• Events for the week

  October 19, 1995

• Out There

  January 23, 1997

• Screen tests

  October 8, 1998

• Sigur Rós / Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  December 12, 2002

• Efterklang, Peter Broderick, Human Highway

  Tuesday, March 17, at Hailey's, Denton

  March 12, 2009

• Maple Minuets

  November 13, 2008

• Ratatat

  Tuesday, September 16, at Granada Theater

  September 11, 2008

• Biting Back

  Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson takes the time to critique the critical responses to his band's new release

  July 24, 2008

• Car Stereo (Wars), Sydney Confirm, Genova Vs. Indo

  Saturday, May 10, at The Cavern

  May 8, 2008

• Strings of Red

  March 13, 2008

• Mahteo

  The NuWave Republic EP (Scotoma)

  February 7, 2008

• Backtrackin'

  A few things you may have missed the first time

  May 3, 2007

• Cadence Weapon, Final Fantasy

  November 1, 2007

• Bidder beware

  The Red Violin's five tales add up to one good tune

  June 17, 1999

• The Beatdown

  Forget hailing the king-- give it up for San Antonio's DJ Jester

  February 2, 2006

• Tegan & Sara

  The Con (Vapor/Sire)

  August 2, 2007

• Julie Doiron

  Woke Myself Up (Jagjaguwar)

  December 21, 2006

• A-Trak

  Thursday, May 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room

  May 25, 2006

• Islands, Why?

  Sunday, April 30, at Hailey's

  April 27, 2006

• Neko Case, The High Dials

  Monday, April 17, at Granada Theater

  April 13, 2006

• Islands

  Return to the Sea (Equator)

  April 13, 2006

• Wolf Parade

  Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)

  September 29, 2005

• Mothers Milked

  Mambo Italiano's moms can't believe their boys are gay; Beauty Queen's is off her rocker

  May 5, 2005

• Stars

  Set Yourself on Fire (Aquarius)

  April 7, 2005

• The Arcade Fire

  Saturday, January 22, at Trees

  January 20, 2005

• Oh, Canada

  Big props to the big films of IMAX

  December 16, 2004

• Sam Roberts

  Friday, October 1

  September 30, 2004

• Chaos Theory

  The hypnotic Maelström is full of good-natured twists

  June 6, 2002

• Flash Fame

  A supermodel flies high and falls fast in Arcand's witty, stylish Stardom

  November 2, 2000

• Ghost story

  A heartbroken politician sets about Waking the Dead

  March 23, 2000

• Today In Music News: The Libertines Are Probably Reuniting, T.I. Gets Less Time, and Of Montreal Gets Naughty

  Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 19, 2009... According to Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek, his singer Pete Doherty will definitely reunite with his first band The Libertines... at some point. Makes sense since they have already partially reunited once this year. T.I. has received prison credit for the 305 days he spent under house arrest, so his actual term has now been reduced to two months. Of Montreal recently debuted a song that probably has the best title ever: "Te

  May 20, 2009

• Please Stop Listening To Classic Rock

  May 21, 2009

• Gig Alerts: Clues Tonight at The Loft; Stardeath and White Dwarfs at Good Records

  Yet another quirky, off-kilter pop band from Canada, Montreal's Clues recorded its eponymous debut at Arcade Fire's Petite Eglise studio late last year. Which makes sense, since Clues' multi-instrumentalist Brendan Reed was an early member of Arcade Fire, playing drums and singing on that band's debut EP.Clues' self-titled debut, meanwhile, has a gritty, emotional feel to it--just the right mix of pathos and passion. Songs like "Remembered Severed Head" and "You Have My Eyes Now" are mini epics

  June 9, 2009

• Next Week, The Riverboat Gamblers Will "Go Crazy" For Purple Rain

  On Tuesday of next week, Spin will unleash Purplish Rain, a tribute record, quite obviously, for Prince's Purple Rain, released in conjunction with an oral history of the disc that the magazine is also putting out next week. And it's not just anybody on the disc: There's contributions from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, of Montreal and The Twilight Singers, among others. Visit Spin's site to stream former Afghan Whig Greg Dulli and the rest of his Twilight Singers' take on "When Doves Cry."But

  June 18, 2009

• Bonnaroo: Peace, Love, Music... and Anarchy

  June 18, 2009

• Sunset Rubdown

  July 2, 2009

• Pairing Off: Dunkin' Donuts

  Patrick Michels​Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Back in 1982 I took off with a friend on summer long road trip up and down the east coast, from Montreal to Atlanta and many, many points in between.It was a good trip. We walked the route from Lexington to Concord (that's an American Revolution thing), touched Bock's Car in Dayton (a WWII thing), saw the Cardinals play in several different cities, ate fried clams in New England and f

  August 19, 2009

• Clearing Out the Mailroom: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

  We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Backstreet Boys (Orlando) This Is Us What's left to say about these guys? The high-school contempt I felt for them and the era of Pro-Tooled assembly-line pop that Lou Pearlman ushered in long ago gave way to a weary sense of inevitability. Judging by the few minutes I gav

  October 7, 2009

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 2: Astronautalis, Metallagher, Broadcast, HEALTH, Crystal Castles, GZA, Of Montreal

  Patrick Michels​Some people attribute weather changes, fortunate or otherwise, to God. The Riverboat Gamblers' Mike Wiebe thought someone else was responsible for the all-day drizzle and showers that turned Waterloo Park into Mudderloo Park. "Someone said, 'It was sunny yesterday, I'm surprised it's rainy now,'" he said during his band's set. "I'm like, 'Are you fucking kidding me? Danzig is here. He flew in on a black pterodactyl. The crops are dying. It's because fucking Glenn Danzig is here

  November 9, 2009

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Recap in Photos: Neon Indian, SSION, Lucero, Of Montreal and More

  Photos by Patrick MichelsSsion's Cody Critcheloe works the crowd Saturday afternoon. Check out more photos in our slide show.​ For the second straight month, a big music event opened in Austin last weekend to fine weather and revelers decked out in their festival finest. Then, as with October's ACL Fest, the skies opened up over last weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest. Sunglasses, masks and capes made way for ponchos and rubber boots -- but onstage, under whatever lights were still working in the rain

  November 10, 2009