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Osheaga 2008 Lineup! 2008-04-16 13:35:40 The official lineup for Osheaga is out. You can get the full details on the Osheaga website here. It looks far better than last year. Definitely a step in the wrong direction with the headliners, but I digress. It will be awesome to see Iggy Pop rip shit up. Trendwhore will be there, and if [...]
Oasis @ Bell Centre Presale 2008-04-16 10:25:55 Oasis just launched their presale for the Bell Centre
yesterday. With Ryan Adams and the Cardinals opening, it’s going to be a bit of a cunt-o-rama as far as celebrity egos go. Maybe someone will even walk offstage in a huffy childish rage. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing how high Liam [...]
Are You Lonely? 2008-04-18 13:50:15 The Raconteurs weren’t a ‘real’ band in the sense that, say, Radiohead or Beck are ‘real’ bands. The members were all established veterans in the music world and enjoyed successful careers – to relative extents – outside of the group before The Raconteurs idea was even dreamed up. In other words, they [...] Read more:Lonely
Wolf Parade @ The Metropolis August 3rd Ticket Info 2008-04-25 15:30:40 As reported on brooklynvegan earlier today, Wolf Parade
will be playing The Metroplolis, August
3rd (and other places as well). By that time they will have released 2008’s album of the year. If you want tickets for this show (and the others) check out Ducat King. If you want a taste of the new album [...] Read more:Metropolis
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Gnarls Barkley Contest 2008-04-28 17:15:04 Gnarls Barkley
, an enigmatic presence in the entertainment business, formally introduced himself in 2006, to the tune of the popular song “Crazy.” He released the acclaimed LP St. Elsewhere, garnered two Grammy Awards (and six nominations), and became a global phenomenon without ever appearing in public. He doesn’t care for the word “should.”
With fame came [...] Read more:Contest
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Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Picks On Old People 2008-05-08 16:31:37 The TokyoMetropolitanPoliceDepartment
was formed in 1874, and today has 42,101 sworn members, 26 boats, 14 helicopters, 951 bikes, 1,103 cars, 33 dogs, and 16 horses. They recently launched a new campaign to urge elderly drivers to give up their licenses after the accident rate involving drivers over 70 years of age [...]
Trendwhore Presents: uh….. their first podcast 2008-05-19 02:02:57 I hope everyone is having a glorious long weekend. Its great to have some extra time to get things organized here at Trendwhore. Currently I’m ripping the MP3s for the Tapes N’ Tapes show back when The Habs still had a playoff run. The video didn’t come out well (and neither did The Habs for [...] Read more:Presents
My Heart Ain’t A Bar Of Soap 2008-05-19 01:45:56 About this time last month I saw Man Man and Yeasayer at Le National. I was anxious to witness at Man Man show since I missed them opening for Modest Mouse last year. They’ve garnered a great reputation for intense live shows. The stage is pure organized chaos that I wish my camera could of [...] Read more:Heart
Me and My Monkey: Beer, Germans, and More Beer. 2008-05-20 11:05:05 Me and My Monkey is so much more than a self-referring pronoun and an arguably human ancestor. An indie electronica band hailing from Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, MAMM consists of Sandro Chinchaladze on vocals and guitar, and Gocha Bakradze on keyboards and guitar. Chinchaladze [...] Read more:Germans
Martin Luther King, Chavez @ La Sala Rossa! 2008-05-23 22:54:10 Although neither MartinLuther
King nor Cesar Chavez
made it out to Wednesday night’s show at La Sala Rossa, saying that they did makes for a damn catchy headline. It’s not completely false, either. The good people at La Sala Rossa did the next best thing to resurrecting legendary American [...] Read more:Martin Luther
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Trendwhore Presents: Podcast 2, Electric Boogaloo 2008-05-29 13:00:20 We’ve hopefully learned from our initial mistakes with the first podcast. This one promises to be more “uh” free and coherent. If you missed our first show it was basically a run down of bands you’ll hear on the first day of Montreal’s 3rd annual Osheaga music and arts festival. This week you’ll hear some [...] Read more:Presents
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Islands @ Le National 2008-05-30 09:08:27 I rarely drink coffee, but while indulging in a mochaccino fix last night at a nearby cafe, I unfortunately missed The Magic, who opened for Islands
in Montreal on Wed, May 28th. After the success of their first album Return To The Sea, Islands have released their 2008 follow up [...] Read more:National
Fringe Pop! Free Handsome Furs Show 2008-06-02 09:59:42 The Handsome Furs will be playing a free show at Parc des Amériques (Rachel & St-Laurent), June 19th here in Montreal with Little Scream and The Witchies. This show is apart of the Fringe Pop! Festival, which will also include Wintersleep. For those of you that haven’t heard of Handsome Furs or Wintersleep may I [...]
Grow For More And Heads Will Roll 2008-06-01 22:15:48 Can anyone remember that a month and a half ago when The Canadians were still in the Stanley Cup running? It was April 15th, The Habs were losing to The Bruins, Hot Chip were selling out the Metropolis and Tapes N Tapes played to a few dozen people at the Cabaret Just Pour Rire. [...] Read more:Heads
Several Lucifers Come We Can Beat Them All 2008-06-03 09:38:24 Rewind your clock back to Thursday the 15th of May. I was sitting at my local hangout, The Bifteck, on St. Laurent reading The Mirror who had just published their annual BOM awards (Best Of Montreal). Flipping though the pages with one hand and pounding back a glass of the cheapest Boreal Blonde I could [...]
Hold Up! 2008-06-05 22:36:24 I’ve seen too many shows. As a result of this, lately I think I’ve become a bit of a dick. Just a bit, though. And not one of those “fuck you for not liking this” dicks, more like a “this better blow me away” dick. I hate myself for it. Also, [...]
Titus Andronicus @ Market Hotel in Brooklyn 2008-06-09 10:59:13 Titus Andronicus opened for Gringo Star and the Black Lips on June 5th in Brooklyn
. Unable to stay for the headliners, I made it out to the show to see Titus Andronicus nonetheless, and gladly so (ignoring the fact that I was completely drenched with sweat and [...] Read more:Market
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Trendwhore Presents: Trendcast 3, Paint! Farmer Paint! 2008-06-11 15:09:30 In our third episode of the ever-improving Trendcast, Montreal paint-eur Peter Farmer visits the studio to talk about his economy stretch limo and his upcoming show Siren in Halifax where he’ll be doing a live painting of a topless mermaid, Brock and Wes debate the definition of East Coast Celtic music, and Brock ponders the [...] Read more:Presents
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Pop Fringe! Info 2008-06-12 14:01:50 I was walking by the Parc des Ameriques (Rachel and St. Laurent) today as the local Portuguese population was stopping traffic in celebration of their homelands defeat of the Czech Republic to win the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship. Anyway, the fringe fest worker bees are busy setting up the park for the upcoming Pop [...]
Polaris Long List Announced 2008-06-13 14:48:05 In previous years those that dwell on the internet where never exposed to the Polaris Prize Nominees ‘long’ list. We normally had to wait until it was filtered down to 10 choices. However this year possibly due to some leak in information we are give a early taste of who is nominated for the Polaris [...]
Little Sister Can’t You Find Another Way 2008-06-14 19:05:03 On May 15th 2008 Queens of the Stone Age played St. John’s Newfoundland for a Molson Canadian Rocks win to get in concert. Seems like a great idea, however this can lead to problems for fans of the band and the band themselves as it did on this night.
First problem with these types of concerts [...]
Sigur Rós are coming to Montreal 2008-06-19 11:39:52 Everyone is talking about Sigur
Rós. The Icelandic band recently stole the show at Bonnaroo, and generated a lot of positive reviews from their show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I was given Hvarf-Heim last year and instantly feel in love with the record. Then earlier this year I watched Heima [...] Read more:Montreal
Viva La Vida Wakes Hotel Guests 2008-06-18 10:44:50 When a contributor for an popular online music magazine recently reviewed the new album Viva La Vida from Coldplay, they doused the sensitive Brits with such descriptives as “wuss messiahs” and referenced some obscure poll taken by Travelodge in which Coldplay won the “The Band Most Likely To Put You To Sleep” award. While [...] Read more:Hotel
Devendra Banhart & Gilberto Gil @ The Hollywood Bowl 2008-07-02 11:02:30 Devendra Banhart, unofficial leader of the so-called freak-folk genre, joined his idol Gilberto
Gil (current Minister of Culture in Brazil) to perform an energy packed set at The Hollywood
Bowl on June 29th in LA. Donning tear-drop shaped war paint under his eyes and a vintage SWANS t-shirt, Banhart sang folk-inspired and Brazilian flavored [...]
I Was Born With the Gift of a Golden Voice 2008-06-29 17:54:58 “If it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will”
Leonard Cohen remarked that he wrote these lines a few years back when he thought his time was done. Well, that was 25 years ago. It [...] Read more:Golden
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Trendcast 4: At Least The War Is Over 2008-06-26 12:31:23 In this weeks Trendcast we welcome an up-and-coming Montreal band Parlovr to Trendwhore Studio to play some live tracks and shoot the shit whilst consuming liberal amounts of malty beverages. We’ll play a couple of tracks from their ’soon to be released’ debut self-titled album, find out who they are, and then let them [...]
Silver Jews Annouce Fall Tour (Montreal Stop) 2008-06-25 10:12:02 The Silver
Jews who just recently released Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea have announced tour dates for the upcoming fall season and thankfully La Sala Rossa is a stop on that tour. Every time I listen to David Berman and co. I thank Ryan (the Duke) in quietly my mind for showing me Tanglewood Numbers last [...] Read more:Montreal
What Will Become Of Us? Oblivion! 2008-06-23 23:24:47 Since releasing Welcome To The Night Sky last year, Halifax’s Wintersleep have been having a great year. This year they received a Juno for New Group Of The Year and MuchMusic Video Award for their single “Weighty Ghost”. Last Saturday Montreal got a treat of a free show with Wintersleep for Pop! Fringe. The set [...] Read more:Become
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Vampire Weekend @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2008-06-21 17:15:44 Alright, alright, I know their show was on Thursday, June 12th, which makes this write up far from recent, but in my defense, this was my first time attending Bonnaroo
, and taking time to write live reviews would have interfered with getting a truly authentic festival experience. After all, [...] Read more:Vampire
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Like A 100 Million Souls Screaming DIE! 2008-06-20 10:50:42 I was reading an interview with Dan Boeckner where he was asked who his new favorite band is. His answer was The Witchies. This wasn’t the first time I’d heard of them. I missed them last year when they opened for The Evens at La Sala Rossa, but I got to see them last night [...] Read more:Souls
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