Pop Montreal

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  Jef Barbara

  Cabaret du Mile End, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  Why in the unholy name of Behemoth was the sound system spitting out Everclear and the Offspring as androgynous child prodigy Jef Barbara a...

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  TOPS

  Cabaret du Mile End, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  Just like most Quebecers don't know that the widely used expression ''câline de bine'' comes from a distortion of English-speaking co...

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  Hooded Fang

  Citizen Vintage, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  Not too far from their hometown of Toronto, Hooded Fang brought a Pop Montreal crowd somewhere else completely with tunes worthy of the bea...

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  GROUNDERS

  Citizen Vintage, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  Despite their tough, all-caps band name, Toronto's GROUNDERS seemed right at home playing the Citizen's Vintage clothing store in Montreal'...

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  Cousins

  Citizen Vintage, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  On the heels of fellow Canadians Japandroids, Cousins's two-man act offered far more presence than two people in a clothing store should of...

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  Dirty Three

  Ukrainian Federation, Montreal, QC, September 20

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2012

  Just who is Warren Ellis? Poet, fool or bum? "Make me sound like Jim Morrison,'' said the bard before taking questions and introducing the...

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  Elite Gymnastics

  Club Soda, Montreal, QC, September 20

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2012

  When Elite Gymnastics opened his set with an R&B karaoke cover of the Spice Girls' "Say You'll Be There," he was giving the audience a help...

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  MYTHS

  Club Soda, Montreal, QC, September 20

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2012

  Things don't always go as planned up on stage. Vancouver duo MYTHS performed a show plagued by technical mishaps and miscommunication despi...