Filed under: Music | Tags: arcade fire, genesis, montreal, my body is a cage, neon bible, peter gabriel, rock
Arcade Fire’s My Body is a Cage.
A fabulous song to start with…
…and now a fabulous cover by a fabulous man (Peter Gabriel).
That’s a wholotta fabulous !
Listen here
http://stereogum.com/archives/peter_gabriel_covers_arcade_fire_stereogum_premier_110491.html
Filed under: Randomness, Visual Art | Tags: la vitrine, montreal, movement-tracking interactive LED
If that’s not uselessly awesome, I don’t know what is…
FYI this is a a movement-tracking interactive LED wall in Montreal.
Filed under: Music | Tags: folk, hoof and the heel, montreal, myspace, rock
I have a very good feeling about a new montreal folk band called The Hoof and the Heel. I have only heard them on MySpace so far, and am planning to go see them live pretty soon.
The song “Fireworks” is an instant-grabber. It sounds like Sufjan stevens and Arcade Fire’s nephew stuck together on a high-energy trip.
Listen here : www.myspace.com/thehoofandtheheel
Filed under: Music | Tags: albatross, are the roaring night, besnard lakes
One of my favorite bands.
New album in 2009.
Let the music speak for itself.
The Besnard Lakes – Albatross (Available for free here)
Filed under: Music | Tags: clues, montreal, radwan moumneh, remember severed head
For obscure reasons I won’t get into now, it took me a few months to listen to Montreal rockers Clues.
I can’t say I regret having waited so long. Pleasure delaying always worked for me, and this time was no exception.
Their self-titled album is simply stunning.
Why I loved it so much is hard to say. Could it be that my very low expectations were shattered? or is it the fantastic production work by Radwan Moumneh ? or maybe just the catchy hooks that inhabit every single song on the record ?
I don’t care, and neither should you. Just head to their myspace and listen to the tunes for yourself.
http://www.myspace.com/cclluueess
trial track : Remember severed head.
I haven’t blogged in a while, but I figured I would post a quick list of my favorites things cultural in 2009…
so thank you 2009 for…
…anything Patrick Watson did (Wooden Arms, Divan Orange and Jazzfest shows, Concert à emporter…)
…The Antlers’ Hospice. It made my soul shrink
…Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest. It proves music can still come in multicolored artwork and not suck.
…Tori Amos’ Midwinter Graces ; she reinvented the holiday album in the most subtle ways
…Pop Montreal, the most fun any music-lover can have in this town
…Il Divo. It reignited italian cinema in my eyes and showed me that I can still be dazzled by directing
…Avatar that made me witness what seemed to be a big turning point in cinema technology
…Helen Mirren in The Last Station
…the dog in Up !
…Two Lovers for having the same effect as The Antler’s hospice (see above)
…”The rabbi is busy” in A Serious Man
…Panique au village and Mary & Max for being the best animated films I’ve seen in a long while
…Inglorious Basterds
…MO’nique in Precious
…True Blood’s zombie freakout
… Lost going apeshit with time
…Seinfeld rocking the shit out of Curb
…endless laughs I got from watching CNN
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I must be forgetting stuff. But who cares ?
interesting to see what films Mr Tarantino admires in the last 20 years.
I agree with half of that list. the other half is just too nerdy.
