Articles by Stephan Boissonneault
Elephant Stone Go Deep on 'Back into the Dream'
PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2024
'Back into the Dream,' finds the four-piece diving head first into the nighttime hallucinations we all experience...
Ducks Ltd. Kept Their Foot on the Pedal in Montreal
Taverne Tour, February 10
PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2024
Watching Ducks Ltd. was too much fun, McGreevy’s wobbling moves and lead guitarist Evan Lewis’ aloof demeanour providing genuine spark...
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT Made a Scene in Montreal
Taverne Tour, February 8
PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2024
What makes an ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT performance so memorable is the amount of sonic space both Menuck and Engle leave for each other...
Hot Garbage Stake Their Claim with 'Precious Dream'
PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2024
For the past decade or so, there have been four bands heading the sooty psych rock battlements; the Black Angels, Osees, Frankie and the Wi...
Night Lunch Are Running Through the Dark on 'Fire in the Rose Garden'
PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2023
On Fire in the Rose Garden, Montreal's Night Lunch make their weird little home beneath layers of post-disco punk haze, R&B, obscure sugar...
There's Nothing Out of Place on Population II's 'Électrons libres du québec'
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2023
Almost exactly two years ago, Montreal psychedelic-meets-art-rock-three-piece Population II released their debut album À la Ô Terre. The al...
Baroness Are Streamlined and Focused on 'STONE'
PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2023
Since their first true full-length release, 2007's Red Album, Baroness have been trying to mutate their primal sound. The sludgy, progressi...
Avenged Sevenfold and Alexisonfire Fed on Nostalgia in Montreal
Bell Centre, July 22
PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2023
If there are two bands that can pluck you out of reality and drop you back into the weirdness of the early to mid-2000s, it's the Californi...