Sick Friend are unintentionally elusive, having worked intensely on an album’s worth of tunes over the past year only to throw them out in order to re-record them next month! But here they are, as part of the March Montreal Sessions. They played an excellent live set, which you can listen to below, and then [...]
Posts Tagged ‘PARLOVR’
A healthy dose of Sick Friend!
Posted in CKUT Montreal Sessions, tagged Braids, Brave Radar, ckut, coulees, Lhasa, live, Maximilien Bouchard, Montreal, montreal sessions, music, PARLOVR, radio, shapes & sizes, Sick, starvin hungry, The Besnard Lakes on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Visual Poems
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged jon whyte, martin reisch, music video, PARLOVR, pen to the paper, safe solvent, visual poems on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While we scribble away at lyrics and scratch at guitar strings and thud drums, there has is some time to investigate other art that inspires us. In this case, Jon Whyte‘s visual poems. We first discovered Jon Whyte’s writing in A/Long Prairie Lines: An Anthology of Long Prairie Poems and we’ve quoted one of his [...]
Hello, Notre-Dame-de-Grace!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged book shop, Encore Books and Records, kavanaugh vintage, NDG, PARLOVR, vintage, vinyl on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hullo! Look what bookish love and interwebby nerdishness does: we’re now selling Carta Marina in the NDG ‘hood of Montreal! Drop by the friendly and eclectic shoppe Encore Books and Records when ya can, and pick up our beloved record. The address is 5670 Sherbrooke St. West, just a few minutes walk from Decarie Blvd. [...]
Caravan: a zine about indie touring!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, Tour Diary, tagged Brave Radar, how-to, ladies of the canyon, Modernboys Moderngirls, PARLOVR, sherwin tjia, tessa smith, touring, van, vinyl record guru, zine on June 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As some of you know, we decided to create a wee zine about independent touring in Canada to sell during this June tour. Folks at the shows and fellow musicians have really been enjoying it and have made their own plans for new content to add to the next edition (best cheap breakfast spots in [...]
Cool is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style, influenced by and a product of the Zeitgeist.
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged china, cotton mouth, jeremy maccuish, new ep, osheaga, PARLOVR on May 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Two items worth knowing about (file under Cool Friends)… As y’all probably know, Jeremy is the drummer in Nightwood. He also plays in two other awesome bands. One is Parlovr, currently on tour in China and who are re-releasing their 2008 EP on Dine Alone Records. Cool, non? Check out their latest tour video ici [...]
Keep Busy
Posted in carta marina, tagged Brave Radar, clues, cotton mouth, fashion pop, Mavo, norwegian wood, PARLOVR, pop montreal, shapes & sizes, the Reversing Falls, vincat on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some Pop MTL show suggestions for ya. There are so, so many awesome bands playing and they’re often playing at the same time (see Mavo, Brave Radar, the Reversing Falls, Clues, us all tonight etc)…. Thursday 1:30am – Balattou – Sister Suvi 11pm – Green Room – Nightwood (we’ll be at this one [...]
An almost-vanitas.
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Bitchin Kitchen, blender, Bloodshot Bill, cocktail recipe, digital birds, kartle tv, linguine recipe, margarita recipe, osheaga, PARLOVR, skull, skull rings on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Erin, Can I get that blender from you? I’d like to try my hand at a homemade margarita while the sun is out and shining! Also, check out this other site, Bitchin Kitchen for awesome recipes like Cranky Creamsicle Cocktail and the Broke-Ass Linguine Aglio-Olio. They even have fun section like “Bitchin’ Babe” where [...]
Beardo
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged beard, beard championships, beard enthusiast, beard lovers, beardo, duffy, Expo67, Freelove Fenner, hairstylist, L'Esco, L'Escogriffe, nerdboyfriend, Nightwood, PARLOVR, safe solvent on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This post is gonna make one beard enthusiast super happy, that’s for sure! There aren’t a whole lotta beards on Nerdboyfriend, for some reason…hmmm. Maybe a flashy beard gets in the way of a fancy cravat. Beards might not be for everyone in the summertime; I see more furry faces in the cooler months for [...]


