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Le Couleur
I was moved to remark recently that Montréal is probably the epicentre of contemporary North American electro-pop and reeled off a whole list of artists to support my hypothesis. I also suggested...
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Paupière
Here's a post I should probably offer up as a further example as to why Montréal is indeed the electro / synth-pop capital of North America... Paupière are Pierre-Luc Bégin (drummer / vocalist with...
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Le Pie
I love it when a plan comes together. I'd been meaning to write about the Sydney 'burbs of Newtown indie-popster Le Pie ever since one of my random trawls of Bandcamp last year led me to discover her...
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Bronswick
File under Montréal: Cité ÉlectroniqueI wrote about Catherine Coutu and Bertrand Pouyet - the dark yet dreamy synth-pop duo behind Bronswick - last year. Their debut EP "Errances" was as good a...
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Let Us Out
Staying in Montréal but with more of a healthy dose of post-punk and shoegazy wondrousness come noise-pop merchants Let us Out with their eponymous debut EP that is guaranteed to blow away the cobwebs...
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Teens in Trouble
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Lizzie Cuevas hails from San Francisco, where she's already a veteran of that city's music scene (the punky Sputterdoll - a band that I can't seem to find any discography -...
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Veronica Winter
As I may have previously mentioned, there is far too much great music out there for one 'ickle part-time blogger to cover and - as by the large I'm not exactly being showered with freebies (but to...
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Cœur de pirate Live at the El Rey Theatre
I am a rather spoilt little Blogger. It may have only have been five months ago that I last saw Béatrice - Cœur de pirate - Martin live here in LA - when along with her full touring band, she slayed...
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Josianne Paradis
A couple of years ago I wrote about the Montréal-based auteure-compositrice-interprète Josianne Paradis after I stumbled across her EP "De Lorimier" which, with its four slices of perfectly-formed...
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Varsity
It may have only been a few weeks since Chicago's Varsity, were featured on these very pages, but seeing as the band are back with a brand new digital single, "Eye to eye" / "Kelly" and it really is...
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La Sera
A couple of years ago I wrote a somewhat rambling review of La Sera's third album "Hour of the Dawn" which threatened to turn into a bit of a confessional of my longstanding aural love affair with Katy...
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Marianne Dissard
I ought to preface this post with the disclaimer that I was one of the backers for the crowd-funded project that is Marianne Dissard's new album "Cibola Gold: Best Of 2008-2015" and to be honest I'm...
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Milk & Bone Live at the Bootleg Theater
Friday night and whatcha gonna do? Watch the team known as the Kobe Bryant Contractual Obligation Tour get slapped around (yet again) at the Staples Center or turnout to support any number of talented...
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Laura Sauvage
So there's a whole bunch of artists that I follow who've tantalisingly been promising to release new records... Which they are... Problem is, they're all being released at around the same time!First up...
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Basement Revolver
It was a (not so) random tweet from those wonderful people at Auteur Research that caused me to idly wilf Hamilton, Ontario's Basement Revolver and stumble across their debut single - a record that...
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Rosie Valland
I may have raved once or twice last year (four times actually, but who's counting?) about the - so insanely talented that I am not worthy to write about - young Québecoise...
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Manon Tanguy
The problem of being a part-time somewhat music blogger is that the day-job has this habit of scuppering all your best laid plans. Not only do you start to lose track of album releases but any idea...
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Juniore
For my weekly listening pleasure I always catch-up with Sheila B's weekly podcast "Sophisticated Boom Boom." Each show is a tour de force of - as Sheila B herself describes the eclectic potpourri -...
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Fanny Bloom
Another "heavy-weight" album from another of this Blog's favourite artists... The auteure-compositrice-interprète Fanny Bloom has been crafting intelligent pop music for several years; from the light,...
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Véronique Bilodeau
Heralding from Rimouski in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, the young - and immensely talented - auteure-compositrice-interprète Véronique Bilodeau has been one of my favourite artists ever...
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