PHOENIX + La Rocca @ Club Soda

September 22 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Mikey B - The Lonesome Strangers - 09/10/2006

Arts & Crafts are really starting to clean up around here.

The Toronto-based label that boasts fine acts such as Broken Social Scene, Feist and Stars have acquired yet another stellar band for their growing stable of goodness, the Parisian foursome known as Phoenix.

CELTIC FROST + 1349 + Sahg @ Le Medley

September 17 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By K-Man - 09/16/2006

OK first off, I have to admit that I thought this show would either be retardedly heavy or horribly bad. I am glad to report that it was like high doom at the OK Corral.

MASTODON + Converge @ Spectrum

September 12 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Jo Satana - 09/10/2006

HERBERT @ Club Soda

September 12 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Trevor Kiernander - Ones and Zeroes - 08/24/2006

One thing is for certain, when you go to see Matthew Herbert perform, you can’t be sure what you are going to get. This definitely held up with his recent, not-so-sold-out performance at Club Soda.

SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND Tour 2005 @ Stade Uniprix

September 10 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Johnny Suck - Turn Down the Suck - 07/03/2005

RANCID + The Ripcordz @ Spectrum

September 5 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Lisa Sookraj - Unsystem-Addict - 08/29/2006

I had never seen Rancid live and was looking forward to it, especially after seeing NOFX a few months ago -- another band I'd wanted to see since I was 17. My buddy Drew accompanied me to see Rancid on the first of three nights they played in Montreal. Openers for the other two nights were the Slackers on the 30th and the Planet Smashers on the 31st. Other bands Rancid are playing with on the current tour include Sick Of It All, Avail, the Aquabats and H20.

GARY NUMAN + New Skin @ Le National

August 11 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Lisa S - Unsystem-Addict - 08/05/2006

Regarding the venue -- I'd never previously been to Le National and I must say this was one of the best things about the Gary Numan show for me. I like that the floor is on a slope, so you can see the stage well over the crowd anywhere you happen to stand. However, this feature was not necessarily necessary for the Numan show in particular, as there were far less people there than I had expected. That said, it was not packed at all and everyone had lots of room to themselves to move about as they pleased, though despite the room not many people were really dancing.

PEACHES + Eagles Of Death Metal @ Metropolis

August 1 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Mike Bresciani - The Lonesome Strangers - 07/19/2006

Peaches, featuring Eagles Of Death Metal?

Nope, I really didn’t see that one coming. Although they have each released albums with spicy titles such as Impeach My Bush and Death By Sexy respectively, this unlikely live combination seems just about as obvious (natural) as maple syrup and fish sticks… cucumber/earmuffs… Yanni and Garfunkel.

EELS + Smoosh @ Le National

July 24 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Mikey B - The Lonesome Strangers - 06/16/2006

This show was pretty much everything I wanted.

SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND 2006 Tour @ Metropolis

July 22 2006 // Magazine // Concert Reviews

By Johnny Suck - Turn Down the Suck - 07/12/2006

In my review of last year’s Sounds of The Underground, I had three major complaints against the festival. It was at a terrible venue, it started three hours late -- resulting in ridiculously short sets -- and the line-up was a mess. Luckily, all three of these issues were fixed when SotU made its return to Montreal on July 12th.

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