Bran Van 3000 are something of a legend in Montreal. Founded by DJ James Di Salvio and E.P. Bergen in 1994, BV3 (as they are known to fans) have survived the kind of career that music documentaries are made of – all while continuing to refine their quirky and lush brand of genre-hopping, electro-acoustic groove [...]

Osheaga has kicked down Montreal’s door once again, and it couldn’t get off to a synthier start. Neon and Highfood have teamed with Osheaga (and a Red Bull sponsorship) to bring us the highly anticipated triple threat: Glitch Mob, Phantogram and Com Truise at Société des Arts Technologiques at 8:00 tomorrow! We recommend you don [...]

So pop-rock gods U2 are coming to Montr– what, you’ve already heard? Oh, of course. If you live here, you’ve definitely heard. Over 160,000 fans are expected to show up tomorrow to U2′s massive self-constructed venue at the Hippodrome at Decarie and Jean Talon, formerly the Blue Bonnets racetrack. Hundreds, in fact, are already there [...]

The champion returns! He’ll be adding rock and dance to the Montreal Jazz Fest‘s impressive genre line-up at Metropolis on Thursday, June 30th, and you’re encouraged to come on down. If you don’t know him yet, DJ Champion (or just Champion), alias Maxime Morin, has been a fixture of Montreal’s dance scene since the mid-’90s. [...]

Prince is an artist who needs no introduction. Since the late ’70s the mad genius has been igniting dance floors with his unique brand of sexed-up pop-funk, and now His Purple Highness is going to shake your booty at the Montreal Jazz Festival in two sold-out shows June 24th and 25th — that is, tonight [...]

English-German outfit Art Brut take their name from a little-used alternate term for outsider art. It’s an appropriate moniker — Art Brut may well have formed in a vacuum, because nobody else sounds quite like them. To call Art Brut indie rock would be, if not a mistake, then at least inadequate. It’s true that [...]

Multi-talented UK artist Kieran Hebden is brought his electronic act (under the name Four Tet) to MUTEK Montreal! He’s one of the top names this year, set to explode his electro-acoustic lab experiments across the ears of thousands of lucky participants. Four Tet’s inimitable style straddles post-rock, dance, jazz and folk, as well as genres [...]

This year’s MUTEK festival boasts several big names, but perhaps none bigger than Amon Tobin, who’s been pioneering his deep brand of sample-based music for the better part of twenty years. Tobin supported his latest album Isam at MUTEK 2011 on June 1 with a massive 3D art installation and spectacular live show. The man [...]