Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger Finds Joy in the Reunion, Even If It Avoids the Harder Questions

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...

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Rush @ Bell Centre

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...

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Jean-Michel Blais Shares Title Track Mirador

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...

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Bryan Adams Announces How's It Goin'

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...

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Super Plage Shares Sexy et Fatiguée | Announces Mini Club

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...

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Slipknot Release New Single Arsenal

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...

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Salebarbes Release Fourth Album Ça veut rien saouère

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 @ MTELUS

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...

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Iron Maiden + Megadeth + Anthrax @ Parc Jean-Drapeau

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 ...

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Vans Warped Tour 2026 @ Parc Jean-Drapeau

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...

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Jack Harlow + James Savage @ MTELUS

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...

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Chance The Rapper + La Reezy @ MTelus

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...

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Think About Life Reunite for POP Montreal

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...

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Colin Stetson Releases All the Light in the World on Friday

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,...

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Montreal's Karen Myatt Releases New Album Valise

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 ...

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Album Review: Chat Pile - Who Loves the Sun

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...

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Mokina Shares Fool From Debut Album

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...

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Jean-Michel Blais Shares Title Track Mirador

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...

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Josh Johnson Builds the Camp He Never Had

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...

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The Tea Party + Rouge Pompier @ Beanfield Theatre

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...

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Soul of The City Hits Home

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...

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Pure Reason Revolution @ Progstorm, Montreal

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...

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Osheaga 2026 - A Review

“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 ...

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Fat Dog Share Woofstock Video for "Call It What You Want"

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 ...

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Mara Tremblay Shares Sauvage et libre

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...

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Melissa Auf der Maur Releases Bass Womb Room, Her First New Music in 15 Years

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...

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23 Concerts to Catch in Montreal During September

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...

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Le Ren Releases Don’t Be Funny Without Me

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...

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The Best Record Stores In And Around Montreal

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...

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