Articles by Joe Bagel

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  Le Ren's 'Leftovers' Is a Folk Music Feast

  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2021

  Strumming thunderbolts out of her guitar, Lauren Spear's debut LP as Le Ren is a folk music marvel, one that charts the human heart and all...

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  Montreal's Freelove Fenner Deliver Danceable New Wave on 'The Punishment Zone'

  PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2021

  Montreal's art rock sleeper cell, Freelove Fenner, have been activated. With marching orders from the same mystical power that's given us S...

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  Helena Deland's 'Someone New' Is a Confetti Cannon Filled with Breakup Roses

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2020

  Like a parcel of breakup roses compressed into a confetti cannon, Helena Deland's debut album is explosive, belaboured and totally intoxica...

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  Blue Hawaii Set Sail on a Party Cruise with 'Under 1 House'

  PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2020

  It's said Montreal is where 20 year-olds go to retire. But the proto-geriatric cruise ships bearing down the St. Lawrence no longer play th...

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  Thomas Molander Swims Against the Montreal Rock Current on 'The Walk'

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2020

  Thomas Molander spent the first half of 2020 in quarantine with his brothers, but he's come crashing out from the gates of Hades with one o...