I remember nodding vigorously in reply as my editors laid out the plan for me to cover the Montréal music scene. The Québec Issue loomed, and Seven Days was sending its reporters like secret agents to ...

Of Montreal, the project of Kevin Barnes, is releasing a new album, Lady on the Cusp, on May 17 via Polyvinyl. Now he has shared its second single, “Rude Girl on Rotation,” via a music video. Watch it ...

Paste: You touched on this in a post on your website this past summer, but, in regard to the title Skeletal Lamping, what skeletons are you spotlighting and have you gotten any further with the ...

Montreal is the most overlooked music city in North America. There are several reasons why. It’s in the upper-right corner of the continent, around 350 miles away from both New York and Toronto, a bit ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. In 1965, Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited ...

In almost any other French-language city in the world, this inquiry would translate as: “Do you speak cutting-edge jazz?” But at Canada’s 44-year-old Festival International de Jazz de Montreal — ...

The marriage of music and dance requires a careful collaboration, one that allows for both genres to complement each other. Les Ballets Jazz Montréal’s “Dance Me” fuses the emotionally potent songs of ...

Last month, of Montreal announced their new album Lady On The Cusp and released “Yung Hearts Bleed Free.” Today, the project helmed by Kevin Barnes is back with the delightfully weird single “Rude ...

Many people like to quote Russian emigre, anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman, who wrote, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Tobias Rochman, half of Montreal, ...

In almost any other French-language city in the world, this inquiry would translate as: “Do you speak cutting-edge jazz?” But at Canada’s 44-year-old Festival International de Jazz de Montreal— better ...