There may be only one man left that can confidently sport a vest sans shirt… and that man is Éric Lapointe. Along with Marie-Mai and Marjo, the Quebecois bad boy rocker rang in the New Year as a typical Lapointe crowd filled Montreal’s buzzing Metropolis. (more…)
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Concert Reviews
Les Cowboys Fringants @ Centre Bell – 12.31.09
01.06.10New Year’s Eve seemed almost too complete as a three hour performance by Les Cowboys Fringants rang throughout the Centre Bell’s vast sprawl. Montreal, Québec was having a New Year’s Eve party ladies and gentlemen, and what better way to celebrate the occasion than with the sounds of neo-traditional Quebecois folk? (more…)
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Bits & Pieces
Le Party des Fêtes à Lapointe – Last Night @ Metropolis
01.01.10Éric Lapointe rang in the New Year with Marie-Mai and Marjo in true Lapointe fashion: loud, rowdy and restless… precisely what this packed Metropolis was looking for… Photos and words available in early 2010!
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Les Cowboys Fringants – Last Night @ Centre Bell
01.01.10
Les Cowboys Fringants arrived packing their brand of Quebecois folk as a clambering Centre Bell howled and hooted for the New Year’s festivities… Join us again soon for the stills & speech.
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The Flaming Lips Invade New Year’s Eve
12.18.09A little while ago we reported some New Year’s news starring your favorite audio weirdos. And just in case you forgot, hang on to your giblets Oklahoma City, The Flaming Lips are taking over the Cox Center on New Year’s Eve as they deliver their annual Freakout event to their hometown. Along with boasting “the world’s biggest balloon drop”, the strange brew ensemble will perform Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon as previously promised, with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, a band helmed by Coyne’s nephew Dennis! However, if you can’t make it out for the intense 2010 festivities, then consider scoring a copy of the Dark Side of the Moon cover online, which we now know features appearances by Peaches and Henry Rollins; available on iTunes as of December 22nd.
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Bits & Pieces
Interpol New Album to Revisit Reverb Roots
11.19.09Unbeknownst to us, Interpol has been putting the finishing touches on a new album over at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Word is that the release will drop early in the New Year. If this news makes you a little nervous, it might be because most listeners gave Interpol’s last offering, 2007’s Our Love to Admire, a lukewarm reception. Well, in an effort to assuage the fears of the listening public, drummer Sam Fogarino is saying that this time around their sound harkens back to their revered debut album Turn on the Bright Lights. “The new record falls back towards the first. In trying to move forward, there was an unspoken realization that you can’t let go of your sonic-defining tag. There was an effort in Daniel [Kessler]’s guitar tone; he rediscovered it playing in his loft space for a year without anybody. The quality of that tone, played in a big room, is just beautiful. It creates an atmosphere… That big wash of reverb? It’s back,” Fogarino says. The percussionist isn’t shying away from talking about the shortcomings of Our Love to Remember, acknowledging that “[the album] was not our most cohesive moment… It was when reality kicked in as to where we were and where we were never going back to.” I find that kind of admission refreshing.
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The Prodigy Releases Invaders Must Die Photo Book
11.17.09The Prodigy’s 2008 & 2009’s Invaders Must Die tour is being commemorated as a photo book. Only 999 of these glossy items are going to be printed, and for the 99 pounds it will cost you’ll get 500 images spread over 350 pages. The hefty tome will also sport a little extra ink, as each copy of the book will bear the autographs of Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim Reality. January 4th is set as the release date, so following a contemplative New Year’s, nearly 1000 of The Prodigy fans can bask in warm memories of a few years past.
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Iggy And The Stooges Plans Full 2010 Tour
11.02.09Earlier this year, the Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton died of a heart attack. Iggy Pop tapped former ‘70s Stooge James Williamson to pick up guitar duties for the Stooges shows at All Tomorrows Parties over there in the UK. This coming weekend Iggy and the Stooges are playing in San Paulo, Brazil. If you can’t make it to South America on such short notice, or if hopping over that pond called the Atlantic isn’t in your budget, you only have to wait until 2010 to catch a gig. Iggy says that more gigs are coming, a full on tour in fact, but dates are yet to be released. In the meantime, however, you can check out his new solo album Préliminaires, or his studio cameos on recordings by Ida Maria and Jemina Pearl. Those might just be enough to tide you over until you get the chance to lay eyes on the sexagenarian punk icon yourself sometime in the New Year.
