Articles by Jessica Carroll

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  Javelin / These Are Powers

  Friendship Cove, Montreal QC March 31

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2010

  Out-of-towners are generally confused when they arrive at a dingy loft-space after playing a whole tour's worth of legitimate venues. Still...

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  Deastro / Max Tundra

  Club Lambi, Montreal, QC November 9

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2009

  It's not easy to conjure up an image of Deastro (aka Randolph Chabot) and Max Tundra as compatible tour buddies. The former is a withdrawn...

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  AIDS Wolf

  Montreal, QC October 2

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2009

  Perhaps it was hometown fever, or the fact that it was guitarist Myles Broscoe's last show before his permanent departure to England, but A...

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  Duchess Says

  Montreal, QC October 2

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2009

  Montreal's no-wave, Moog-rock four-piece Duchess Says are brilliant at working with language. That is so to say, they are francophone, and...

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  Teenage Jesus and the Jerks

  Montreal, QC October 2

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2009

  When late '70s seminal no-wave "anti" rock act Teenage Jesus and the Jerks hit the stage for their Pop stop, the audience was understandabl...

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  Fever Ray

  Montreal, QC October 1

  PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2009

  As soon as melancholic minimalist virtuoso Fever Ray (aka the Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson) ascended the stage for the Swede's Pop Montr...

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  Hunx and His Punx

  Montreal, QC September 30

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2009

  Hunx and His Punx's Pop Montreal performance was vivacious, to say the least. Outfitted like flamboyant circus performers, the five-piece b...

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  Jay Reatard

  Montreal, QC September 30

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2009

  Jay Reatard has always prided himself on his energetic live shows, and his appearance at Pop Montreal was no different. The juxtaposition o...