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Independent, provocative, now! The CJLO Magazine is the resource for features, reviews, and interviews. Established in 2004, and run by dedicated CJLO volunteers, the magazine covers the latest and best in local and international music, art, theatre, film, festivals, and more!

Otoboke Beaver: A Yearlong Passion

March 25 2024 // Naia Ballman // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Otoboke Beaver is a Japanese Punk band from Kyoto and one of my favourite bands of all time. According to its members, the band performs a "fast-paced and aggressive style of punk-rock" with "frequent changes in rhythm and tempo" and "gang vocals". They have a plethora of personal music influences, including Japanese rock, hardcore punk, and Japanese pop music. Their music features a combination of all of them, representing musical innovation.

Laetitia Sadier, Music with Message @ Bar Le Ritz

March 20 2024 // Lumina Kitaura // Magazine // Concert Reviews

 

Fourteen years since Stereolab released its last studio album, its leading lady Laetitia Sadier can still draw a crowd. Fans stood shoulder to shoulder all the way to the door on Saturday night at Bar Le Ritz PDB for the Montreal installment of Satier’s Rooting for Love Tour. With her gentle floating vocals and esoteric mid-song dances, a solo Sadier wooed audiences at the Ritz, performing songs spanning her career. 

At The Movies Interview with Adrian Wills, Director of A Quiet Girl

March 20 2024 // Remi Caron // Magazine // Interviews

Remi interviews Adrian Wills about his film A Quiet Girl streaming on the National Film Board of Canada's website as of March 25th. In A Quiet Girl, adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Shocking details drive Wills to the core of his birth mother’s resilience, and ultimately his own. In this moving feature documentary that combines 16mm footage and contemporary images with deeply personal conversations, Wills’ voyage transforms from an urgent search for identity into a quest to give a quiet girl her voice.

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You've been Gwar-ned: Gwar invades Montreal

March 19 2024 // Angelica Calcagnile // Magazine // Concert Reviews
 
Gwar with Cancer Bats and X-Cops at Théâtre Beanfield / March 9, 2024

Brkn Love Bring the Flavor, Show You How at First Montreal Headlining Gig

March 19 2024 // Angelica Calcagnile // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Brkn Love with Royal Tusk and The Sunset Drip at Bar Le Ritz PDB / March 8, 2024

"Everyboooody... rock your boooody... everybooooody... Backstreet's back, alright!"

Allison Russell at Studio TD: “This is a call and response song, but you don’t have to do anything because consent is sexy"

March 19 2024 // Sofia Dawson // Magazine // Concert Reviews

On the rainy eve of Friday, March 15th, soulful singer-songwriter Allison Russell graced her motherland of Montreal at Studio TD. Russell’s presence in the music industry has flourished within the last few months following the release of her second studio album The Returner on September 8th, 2023 and Grammy win for her song, “Eve Was Black” in February. Russell has since gained significant praise for the album's integrity to its “expression of black liberation,” self-love and trust in life’s journey.

Fika(s) Festival 2024: «Mello» with the Swedish Choir

March 12 2024 // Cal McDonald // Magazine // Concert Reviews

You may have seen the bright pink and blue posters of the Fika(s) Festival around the city. As a Scandinavophile, I was surprised when I learned that this is a Scandinavian and Nordic cultural festival, in Montreal no less. Ta fika means to take a coffee break in Swedish, and the Fikas(s) festival proposes a series of films, talks, performances, games, and other events from March 9th to 15th. 

CJLO X SXSW 2024: Hip Hop and RPM Preview

March 4 2024 // Amrew Weekes and Jason Regy // Magazine // Features

It’s been 5 years since I last went to SXSW and I am excited to get back to this cool city and awesome festival. There are a lot of artists this year that I do not recognize which is what is going to make this festival fun as I am sure there will be a lot of cool discoveries. Here are some artist I see in the lineup that I want to check out.

CJLO X SXSW 2024: Metal Music Preview

March 4 2024 // Andrew Wieler // Magazine // Features
Ah yes... after a break for... some reason that I forgot that is DEFINITELY still NOT happening as you are reading this right now, CJLO is heading back down to SXSW for the first time since 2019.

 
Now, I've stated in the past that metal does not seem to be a priority for SX, so how is it this year?

It's actually worse than previous years.

Squid @ Club Soda

March 2 2024 // Mateo Garriga and Anthony Filice // Magazine // Concert Reviews

Post-punk is a very broad genre of music. After emerging from punk in the late 70s in the United Kingdom, it saw punk rock mixed with several other elements from different genres that were unconventional within the punk context.

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