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There's something magical about merging the naive with the lo-fi: both feature in everything we love about pop music. Simple structures, clear hooks, and danceable beats, can undercut the gloss and the pomp that are often mistaken for high production values. Lyon-based Camille Bouvot-Duval, the one-woman show behind De La Montagne, cites Tracy + The Plastics, The Knife and Cansei de Ser Sexy as influences, and it shows. This is brash, coy electro that plays to the sexual politics of the dance floor while subverting them.

Catch De La Montagne on Midnight Love Affair this Sunday August 5th at 10pm EDT.

Montreal hotels have just gone through their worst July since 2009.

The Hotel Association of Greater Montreal told the Gazette on Thursday that hotel room revenues were down almost 15 percent from July of last year.

After a surprisingly decent June, bookings took a dive in July. The association V-P William Brown also said that there wasn’t a single cause for the decline. He pointed to the high Canadian dollar, the battered euro, an election year in the U.S. and the fallout from the student protests as key reasons.

The hotels will have a clearer idea of what the reason for the decline will be when airline figures for Montreal to Europe and the U.S. flights are reported.

AJ Walter Aviation has come to the rescue for Aveos Fleet Performance due to a purchase agreement which was made between them.

According to the Gazette it was on Thursday that AJ Walter signed an agreement to purchase the aircraft maintenance business.

This is good news for the nearly three thousand Aveos employees who lost jobs after the company filed for bankruptcy protection.

It`s rumoured that there`s a possibility that the nearly three hundred montreal jobs lost will be available again next month. 

Canadian Olympians continued to up the medal count in London.

On Wednesday, the men's eight-row team won silver. The former Olympic gold medallists lost to Germany, while hosts Great Britain came in third. But medal hopeful Alexandre Despatie was shut out of the men's synchronized diving. 

On Tuesday, diving team Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion grabbed bronze in the women's synchronized 10 metre dive. Quebecer Antoine Valois-Fortier won a bronze in judo, and weightlifter Christine Girard also finished with a bronze. 

And American swimmer Michael Phelps broke the record for total number of Olympic medals. He is now the most-decorated Olympian, with 19 medals to his name.

And when it comes to Olympics coverage, CTV is trumping NBC. A media monitor in Ottawa looked at Twitter to contrast viewer appreciation of the Canadian and American Olympic broadcasters. About half of the CTV tweets were positive, while over eighty per cent of NBC tweets were negative. Critics have complained that NBC lacks live coverage, and has poorly-timed commercial breaks, bad commentary and spoilers.