Articles by Lorraine Carpenter

Mambo Italiano

Émile Gaudreault

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

Marketed as an Italian take on My Big Fat Greek Wedding, this Canadian comedy should appeal to a more diverse audience than Joel Zwick's lo...

The World Provider / Ad-Hawk

Casa Del Popolo, Montreal QC - January 7, 2004

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

A mic, a discman and three suits are all the World Provider needs to entertain, but this was no ordinary gig, this was a revue. With Berlin...

Marlowe / The Besnard Lakes

O Patro Vys, Montreal QC - January 11, 2004

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

After a booming set by indie psychedelics the Besnard Lakes, Montreal's Marlowe struck a relatively subtle and composed chord, patiently ut...

Auf der Maur

O Patro Vys, Montreal QC - November 1

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

Melissa Auf der Maur has never fronted a band, and it shows. She's played the role of bassist/back-up singer for over ten years, first with...

The Gruesomes

Petit Campus, Montreal QC - September 17, 2003

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

For goodtime garage rock you can't get much better than Montreal's stars in stripes, the Gruesomes. The band played a rare hometown show to...

Profane Peaches

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

She's a man-eater (and a woman-eater too), a high voltage electro-rock nympho on record and a gender-fucking sexual conduit on stage. From...

Planet Smashers

Club Soda, Montreal QC - September 4, 2003

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

A crowd-wide party erupted at the first strains of Montreal's ever-popular Planet Smashers, veterans of the all-skanadian scene that came t...

Grand Buffet

Casa Del Popolo, Montreal QC - August 7, 2003

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

Two fool MCs and one Discman. A simple set-up for a little show and Pittsburgh's Grand Buffet made it work. The crowd was thin and the room...