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"Seeing Thrice never gets old, honestly. Their last visit in 2023 playing their iconic third record The Artist In The Ambulance in full was one for the ages, but their regular “album cycle” show has always been pretty fantastic too, and tonight is no exception."

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Thrice @ Beanfield Theatre
Seeing Thrice never gets old, honestly. Their last visit in 2023 playing their iconic third record The Artist In The Ambulance in full was one…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"Weren't supposed to fold, weren't supposed to try."

Zach Zoya returns to R&B with "Keep Tryin'", exploring love in 2025: desire, confusion, and fragile hope.

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Zach Zoya Returns to R&B Roots with "Keep Tryin'"
After spending a year exploring sunnier, pop-oriented territory on It’s Always Sunny in Glendale, Zach Zoya is heading back to R&B. “Keep Tryin’,” the first…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Bodywash Strip Back Their Dream Pop on Desert Lake Session
When Bodywash set up their gear in a family cabin on Desert Lake in Ontario, sunlight filtering through the trees, the Montreal duo weren’t looking…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Ahead of their show opening for Wednesday at Club Soda tonight, Daffo chats with us about writing through OCD, leaving NYU, and why "maybe it transforms grief a little. It becomes less of a dark thing and more of a hand reaching out."

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Daffo Finds Catharsis in Confession: On Tour With Wednesday
When Daffo takes the stage at Club Soda in Montreal on November 14th, opening for Wednesday, they’ll be experiencing a full-circle moment that few emerging…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Natural light, quiet forest, no studio safety net. Bodywash's Desert Lake Session finds the Montreal duo peeling back the layers on "Massif Central" and "No Repair."

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Bodywash Strip Back Their Dream Pop on Desert Lake Session
When Bodywash set up their gear in a family cabin on Desert Lake in Ontario, sunlight filtering through the trees, the Montreal duo weren’t looking…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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"Love is perhaps an excess of blues that evaporates."

Gab Bouchard's new single charts the impulse to leave it all behind. Third album "Encore encore" drops January 30.

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Gab Bouchard Returns Home on Third Album
Something is fitting about a singer-songwriter building his own studio in the quiet of Lac-Saint-Jean, far from the urban sprawl where he once cut his…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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"Three decades feels less like survival and more like defiance." Montreal's Stomp Records celebrates 30 years of Canadian punk with anniversary shows across the country this December. montrealrocks.ca/stomp-record...
Stomp Records Celebrates Three Decades of Canadian Punk
Somewhere between the late-night gear loads and the dive bar soundchecks, Montreal’s Stomp Records built an empire. Not the kind with corner offices and quarterly…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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"Safety doesn't come from being guarded; it comes from trusting that even if things fall apart, you'll still be okay."

Montreal's Annabel Oreste on divine love, vulnerability, and her new single "I CARE."

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Annabel Oreste on "I CARE," Divine Love, and Learning to Be Seen
Annabel Oreste is learning what it means to be soft again. The Montreal-based Canadian-Haitian R&B artist, fresh off winning the 2025 Canada’s Walk of Fame…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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"This show for me was really more about the openers than the headliner of the night."

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Sonata Arctica + Powerglove @ Beanfield Theatre
Fresh off their tour with fellow legends Symphony X, Sonata Arctica stopped in Montreal at the end of September with PowerGlove to promote their newest…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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RAATS will be playing in Montréal on November 28 at P'tit Ours

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November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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With summer 2026 feeling like a lifetime away, Montreal rock fans have something substantial to mark on their calendars. AC/DC have confirmed a September 12, 2026 stop at Parc Jean-Drapeau, marking the band’s first return to the city in nearly a decade.

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AC/DC Return to Montreal on Power Up Tour
With summer 2026 feeling like a lifetime away, Montreal rock fans have something substantial to mark on their calendars. AC/DC have confirmed a September 12,…
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November 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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New Review:
@thedears.bsky.social' Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! is "less about spectacle and more about invitation. To witness, to endure, to find beauty even when the path is rough."

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Album Review: The Dears - Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!
From the first bars of Gotta Get My Head Right, The Dears reintroduce themselves as seasoned players rather than youthful provocateurs. The organ thrums, the…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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La Tulipe wins its noise battle and can reopen after a judge overturns the injunction.

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La Tulipe Wins Legal Reprieve, Set to Reopen
On a grey October morning, the century-old concert hall at Papineau and Mont-Royal sat silent, its marquee dark after months of forced closure. That changed…
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November 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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"Three bands, three flavours of blackened intensity, one room that knows how to amplify a riff until it rattles your boots."

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Blackbraid + Dödsrit + Gudsforladt @ Cafe Campus
A Wednesday night in early October, Café Campus half lit like a theatre in pre-show hush, half buzzing like a Métro platform when the train…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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SOFIA ISELLA is a powerhouse ready to explode.

Check out our review & photos from her sold-out Théâtre Fairmount show.

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SOFIA ISELLA @ Fairmount Theatre
SOFIA ISELLA is a powerhouse ready to explode. She performed at Théâtre Fairmount for her first headline show in Canada on October 17th, 2025. The…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"I wanted to make something that felt like if Jane Fonda got lost in a David Lynch film."

Kandle's new single Creation of Poison is a gothic workout fever dream about loving the monster that destroys you.

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Kandle Transforms Toxic Love Into Gothic Workout Fantasy
Kandle has unleashed her strangest and most captivating work to date. The Montreal singer-songwriter’s new single Creation of Poison, out now via Hidden Pony Records,…
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October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Melbourne’s The Belair Lip Bombs have always had an ear for melody and a knack for scrappy guitars, but Again feels like everything finally clicking into place.

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Album Review: The Belair Lip Bombs – Again
Melbourne’s The Belair Lip Bombs have always had an ear for melody and a knack for scrappy guitars, but Again feels like everything finally clicking…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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"Callous Breed intrigued and fascinated with their experimental industrial approach, LINX electrified the room with their emotional power and visceral performance, and Projekt F transported the audience into a gothic, hypnotic trance."

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Projekt F + LINX + Callous Breed @ Turbo Haüs
Turbo Haüs in Montreal was the scene of a memorable evening, showcasing three Montreal-based bands, each exploring their own take on industrial and gothic rock:…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"After previously declaring this show to be his favourite of the tour, Pierre greets the customary olé olé olé chants that summon them back to the stage for an encore by effusing, “Was that a chant?! You guys are scooping up all the cool points!"

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Balu Brigada + Harper Finn @ Fairmount Theatre
Having just reviewed Parcels at Place Bell last week and reminisced about their tiny debut at Theatre Fairmount in 2019, I can’t help but wonder…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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"Lorna Shore’s rise has been astonishing. In an era where metal’s mainstream visibility has faded, they’ve somehow pulled the genre back into arenas without compromise."

Review & photos from their Place Bell show with The Black Dahlia Murder + Shadow Of Intent ▪

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Lorna Shore + The Black Dahlia Murder + Shadow of Intent @ Place Bell
It’s wild how quickly Lorna Shore have gone from cult favourites to full-blown arena headliners. Just two years ago, they were opening for Gojira and…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It's New Music Friday. What are you checking out?

Don't sleep on The Belair Lip Bombs.

Anyone watch Celebrity Traitors? You may recognize another artist in the video 😉

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Best New Albums This Week: Florence + the Machine, KODAK BLACK, Spite (Oct 31)
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Two decades after marrying at the height of Montreal’s indie rock renaissance, Arcade Fire co-founders Win Butler and Régine Chassagne have announced their separation.

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October 31, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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"After two decades, Despised Icon are no longer trying to outrun their past. They’re dissecting it, refining it, finding meaning in the repetition."

Read our review of their brand new album out via @nuclearblast.bsky.social

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Album Review: Despised Icon - Shadow Work
There’s a certain poetry in how Despised Icon keep disappearing and returning. Every few years, Montreal’s most ferocious export resurfaces, drops an album that sounds…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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"Screaming in the darkness as if to push back the sorrow."

Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir arrives March 2026—from Montreal's underground to Hole's most turbulent tour. The story behind the music.

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Melissa Auf der Maur Chronicles Her '90s Rock Journey in Forthcoming Memoir
The bassist who stood onstage with two of alternative rock’s most volatile bands is finally telling her side of the story. Melissa Auf der Maur,…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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"There's this role as a victim that people in society want you to play." The Dead Betties' Joshua Ackley confronts rape survival on their most personal single yet.

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Dead Betties Confront Rape Survival on New Single
There’s a tension in the word “victim” that most people don’t want to acknowledge. For the Dead Betties‘ Joshua Ackley, that tension became unbearable enough…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM