Some recordings survive because someone planned carefully for the future. Others remain hidden through accident: a mislabeled disc, an abandoned hard drive, or…
Championing Female Indie Artists
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Unearthing a 2014 radio session that was never broadcast
When Injury Rewrote a Guitarist’s Technique
For a guitarist, injury can threaten more than comfort. It can interrupt muscle memory, alter posture, and make familiar chords feel suddenly unreachable. When…
Burn Pattern Finds Beauty in the Noise
Motel Saints’ Burn Pattern arrives with the kind of rough-edged confidence that makes garage rock feel immediate again. The Montreal female trio plays as if…
Ten Indie Songs About Montreal Neighbourhoods You Should Know
Montreal’s independent music has always been closely tied to place. Streets, parks, apartment blocks, corner bars, snowy avenues, and bilingual conversations…
The Electro-Pop Artist Turning Light Into Another Instrument
Mara Venn writes electro-pop songs that seem to glow from the inside. Her music pairs glassy synthesizers with close, emotionally direct vocals, while her live…
The last night of The Static Hearts
In the spring of 2013, Montreal’s small venues were full of bands making beautiful noise with very little money. The Static Hearts belonged to that moment: a…
Five Indie Rock Records Where Voices Break The Fourth Wall
Indie rock has always made room for unusual forms of storytelling. A guitar riff can carry a confession, a drum pattern can suggest a confrontation, and a few…
When family letters become a folk singer’s first songs
The story of how a folk singer used old family letters as lyrics for her debut EP begins with a cardboard box in a Montreal apartment. Inside were envelopes,…
Where Vinyl Met Women’s Voices In Montreal
In Montreal’s independent music culture, a record store could be far more than a place to buy a used LP. Its listening rooms, narrow aisles, and front windows…
Why this artist painted her own album art with coffee stains
Album artwork often arrives polished, distant, and carefully separated from the human hands that made the music. This artist chose the opposite approach.…
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