LAMB OF GOD + Children of Bodom @ CEPSUM

By Christine Lariviere - The Lonesome Strangers - 04/17/2009

On April 17th I threw on my well worn, black t-shirt bearing a lightning bolt down the front -a shirt that has survived countless brutal slams in the pit and has been soaked in buckets of other people’s sloppily spilt beer. Wearing this shirt out could only mean one thing: I was going to a metal show.  


BEAST @ Club Soda

By Nathaly Arraiz - Two Hours Of Terror - 04/23/2009

Power. To sum up my experience at the latest performance by Montreal's own Beast, they blew me out with their power. My expectations were surpassed by the attitude of their performance. They might be a new band (their first album debuted November 2008) but these guys are no strangers to the stage.


LADY SOVEREIGN @ Club Soda

By Robin Fisher - The Onomatopoeia Show - 05/02/2009


HEAVEN AND HELL - The Devil You Know

By R. Brian Hastie - Drive Home: Countdown To Armageddon - 04/28/2009


PETER, BJORN & JOHN + Chairlift @ Le National

By Lindsay Wood - Through Being Cool - 04/27/2009

In 1999, a very trendy, easy to listen to and easy to look at group was born. They even had a member named Bjorn…and Peter and John. On Monday, April 28th they came to Montreal with openers Chairlift.


MURDER BY DEATH @ Petit Campus

By Josh Mocle - The Kids are So-So - 04/17/2009


THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY @ Petit Campus

By Josh Mocle - The Kids are So-So - 04/07/2009

Wasting no time on hyperbole, I’m just gonna jump right to the quotable: The World/Inferno Friendship Society skirt the line between innovation and outright inspiration and their entirely unique brand of orchestral, cabaret proto-punk may very well bring new life to a genre rife with cliché and stale personalities (and if you disagree you are wrong.)


FRIENDLY FIRES + White Lies @ Les Saints

By Christine Lariviere - The Lonesome Strangers - 03/30/2009

Late March is always a time for Montreal to shrug off the last of its winter blues, but this is always signaled by the odd day or two of freakishly cold weather…winter’s final death rattle.  So it was in a cumbersome winter jacket, layered with a sweater and t-shirt for good measure that I bustled my way down into the hot, crowded depths of Les Saints on March 30th to catch Friendly Fires playing their first show in Montreal.


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