The song is about a dog. “Simone is the portrait of an affectionate and playful dog… who could sometimes be moody and violent; she’s bitten all of us before, and we’ve forgiven her every time,” says É...

October is the month the fall touring season stops arriving in trickles and simply lands. Gorillaz bring a new album and a hand-drawn animated world to the Bell Centre, The Smashing Pumpkins give Mell...

Any other band that broke through in the 70s would probably be grateful to have any kind of following 50 years later. But AC/DC are not like any other band; they are more than just relevant. Their ret...

Simple Plan‘s performance at the FMG festival in Gatineau was a powerful reminder of just how lasting a band’s connection with its audience can be. From the moment the Montreal pop-punk veterans took ...

MTelus was sold out, an impressive feat for the President to pack his rally despite the foreigners from AC/DC invading our city on this night. If you didn’t know what Nashville’s Showing Teeth are abo...

Tonight completes the redemption arc for Montreal in the eyes of opener Frankie Rose: “Thanks for coming early guys; usually nobody shows up in Montreal!” She’s been here a few times over the years, v...

Squirrel Flower interview with Ella Williams about her album Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going and the urge to be on the road.

I have a little history with Oasis. I saw them live in the ’90s and always liked their music, although at the time there were other bands that meant far more to me. Then, in July 2000, Oasis played tw...

The opening notes of Tom Sawyer have been part of my life for decades. Hearing them inside the Bell Centre, with Rush playing directly in front of me, felt almost impossible. I had been waiting for th...

The mirador was in a basement in Nicolet. Jean-Michel Blais built it as a child, an imaginary lookout in the family house, a place to sit and watch a world he had not reached yet. He was a young music...

Bryan Adams will release How’s It Goin’ on 6 November through BAD Records, a thirteen-track album written entirely about Canada. It started with a commission. Adams wrote a song for the documentary Ca...

Super Plage released “Sexy et Fatiguée” today, the fourth track from Mini Club, out 23 October on Lisbon Lux Records. The Montreal launch show is booked for 11 November at Le Belmont, 9:30 PM, as part...

Slipknot have released Arsenal, their first new song in more than three years, alongside a video directed by the band’s percussionist and co-founder M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. The video stars actor Jack...

Salebarbes released their fourth album, Ça veut rien saouère, on digital platforms this morning. The physical edition follows on Friday, 11 September. The band mark the release with an online launch t...

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Arlo Parks is in a better place. With her Desire tour, the 25-year-old Mercury Prize winner brought vulnerability and euphoria to the dancefloor. The dancefloor has long played a larger role in conver...

Scream for me Quebecois!! 40,000 people happily obliged to Bruce Dickinson’s commands, as the five other men on stage who make up Iron Maiden gave a performance worth remembering at their recent tour ...

VANS WARPED TOUR BROUGHT TOGETHER MORE THAN 51,000 FANS AT PARC JEAN-DRAPEAU! Full review by Mathieu Perrier and Maxime Le Huidoux Warped Tour is back in Canada! 2026 marked the first time in 12 years...

Wednesday night I watched a man in a beanie sing jazz-inflected R&B with two backing vocalists and a seven-piece band. This weekend I’m at Vans Warped Tour. I put that up front so you know exactly wha...

Ten years ago, my partner and I walked into the Bell Centre as newcomers to Montreal, attending our very first concert in this city: Chance the Rapper on his Coloring Book tour. Returning to see him a...

Think About Life play Rialto Hall on Saturday 26 September, their first show in nine years. It has already sold out. The POP Montreal booking puts them on Parc Avenue with Pigeon Phat and Underpass su...

Colin Stetson releases All the light in the world, made with Scottish piper Brìghde Chaimbeul, on Friday 11 September through Envision Records. He plays Theatre Outremont the same night. Eight tracks,...

Montreal vocalist Karen Myatt has released Valise, an 11-track album inspired by a decade of internal and external journeys. She will launch the record with a showcase at La Sala Rossa in Montreal on ...

When I saw Chat Pile at Club Soda in Montreal in 2024, Raygun Busch walked onstage in shorts and a baseball cap, looking surprisingly relaxed for someone about to spend the evening screaming over some...

mokina was born in Montreal and now lives on Portugal’s Atlantic coast. “fool,” released today, is the first single from her debut album Jardim Celeste. The song takes its name from the Fool card in t...

The mirador was in a basement in Nicolet. Jean-Michel Blais built it as a child, an imaginary lookout in the family house, a place to sit and watch a world he had not reached yet. He was a young music...

If you make a friend at a Josh Johnson show, he wants to hear about it. “There’s an open invitation to always DM me anytime you make a friend at the show,” Johnson says. “It means that the sort of mis...

Beanfield Theatre was packed early on a Sunday night. Those who showed up early got to witness Verdun’s Rouge Pompier, who seemed to have a fan base in the crowd. I was a little concerned about having...

Soul of The City kicked off its first edition with a sold-out show at La Sala Rossa on Wednesday, August 12. The four-night festival featured some incredible local artists that I got to discover and r...

According to Pure Reason Revolution frontman Jon Courtney, it has been 20 years since the band’s last show in Montreal. Having lived here for 18 and a half years, it suddenly makes sense why I’ve neve...

“It’s the most wonderful timeeee of the yearrrr…” Yeah, I know I’m about five months early, but for some reason that song always echoes around my brain by the time Osheaga weekend rolls around. After ...

Fat Dog have released “Call It What You Want,” the fourth single from their second album Cancel Me (I’m Tired), out October 2 on Domino. The track landed today as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record, and it ...

Mara Tremblay has released Sauvage et libre, the first single and title track from her ninth album, due January 22, 2027 via Audiogram. The song opens the album and was written by Stéphane Lafleur. Tr...

The cassette goes on sale at the Art Gallery of Ontario today, which is a strange way to release a record in 2026, and entirely the point. Melissa Auf der Maur has released BASS WOMB ROOM: My ’90s 4-T...

September is the month Montreal stops pretending summer is over and just books everything at once. Rush open the month at the Bell Centre on their first tour in eleven years, Iron Maiden bring Megadet...

Montreal songwriter Le Ren has released her second album, Don’t Be Funny Without Me, today, August 28, through Royal Mountain Records. The ten-track record arrives five years after her 2021 debut, Lef...

Montreal has held onto a density of independent record shops that most North American cities lost years ago. Two sit barely a hundred metres apart on Avenue du Mont-Royal, three more share the same sh...

Justin Broadrick plays guitar on Lost Weekend, the new Phoebe Bridgers album that landed on August 14. Broadrick, best known as the frontman of industrial metal band Godflesh, turns up on two tracks: ...

Somaya releases her debut album LAYALI on Friday, August 28. The Montreal singer has been working since 2024 across alternative R&B, neo-soul and Middle Eastern music, and first drew attention with th...

Shaina Hayes has announced her third album, Take the Case of a Rose, out November 13 on Bonsound. It arrives with “Tempest”, the record’s third single after “Flourish” and “Timid”, and it is available...

Brann Dailor has spent a good chunk of the summer alone behind a drum kit, playing the same songs over and over until they are perfect. “I’ve been going through the set down in my basement, sweating m...

Dolly Parton died on August 25 in Nashville, her family confirmed. She was 80. The announcement came through her official Instagram, where her nephew Bryan Seaver read a statement on the family’s beha...

Fontaines D.C. have announced their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, out October 16 on XL Recordings. The lead single, “Marianne,” is out now. James Ford produced the record, returning after his ...

Ten nights. One square kilometre of downtown. For the length of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, the Quartier des Spectacles stops being a place with a festival in it and becomes the th...

I first saw The Aces perform at Echo Beach in 2018, opening for 5 Seconds of Summer. Back in the day, I followed them and assumed they were a super cool queer band, because the lead singer, Cristal Ra...

Three bands, three provinces, three completely different ideas of what an indie rock set is supposed to do to a room. The bill that landed at La Sala Rossa on July 30 put Toronto’s PACKS, Montreal’s R...

At night one of Big Thief’s two-night Somersault Slide tour stop in Montreal, the room skewed millennial, although I spotted two indie sleaze kids huddled outside with their wrists pressed together ho...