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How To Entertain

Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just wondering how these ladies did it and so I gleaned this gear-related info from the Sleater-Kinney Wikipedia page. Thought about sharing it here:
Although Sleater-Kinney had no bass player, both Tucker and Brownstein tuned their guitars one and a half steps down (“C# tuning”), and Tucker’s tone and style enabled her [...]

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Nightwood en francais et nos deux videos pour votre plaisir.

Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Excuse mon francais, s’il vous plait. Erin et Eric sont bilingue mais j’essaye cette fois.
Ce soir a Le Cercle, (228 St-Joseph E.), nous jouons avec Parlovr, une autre groupe Montrealais. Ca commence a 21h00 et c’est seulment $7.
C’est un peu d’information sur les deux groupes:
En réaction aux groupes orchestraux multi-instrumentistes qui ont envahi la scène [...]

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Sympathy for the Devil

Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged , , on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If you’re in Montreal, go see this exhibit at the the Musée d’art contemporain. It’s about the relationship between fine art and rock n’ roll over the past 40 years and is on display until January 11th 2009. It’s not exhaustive or anything but there is some really fun stuff to check out! The above image [...]

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Nick Cave calls upon the author.

Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged , on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Please select “watch in high quality” as the viewing option. We saw this guy, this same concert during Pop MTL recently. This guy is an awesome showman! Watch out for the kick! We were in the balcony and could see this sea of blue video recording devices (cell phones, cameras, etc) [...]

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Where do the not-tragic women exist?

Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged , on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

MARIANNE: “People were sneering at me at school because we didn’t even have a telephone. No car, no gramophone, no father! And yet I had this fantastic secret history involving white tribute horses from the Aegean and Charlemagne, and Moorish ancestors on vast estates liberating the slaves in the salt mines.”
“The dolly girls all jibbled [...]

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Tour diary!! with photos.

Posted in Tour Diary, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Why bother with clearly constructed and well-articulated paragraphs when describing a mini-tour? These journeys are restless, uncouth and harmless. As per our first tour diary back in May, we prefer to use keywords and stream of consciousness methods to describe our sometimes-foggy impressions of our trip next door (Ontario) with Parlovr. We apologize if it [...]

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