Concert Review – Katy Perry – Bell Centre, Montreal – July 15 2014
Katy Perry’s World Prismatic Tour stopped at the Bell Centre last night to serve up a smorgasbord of visual effects, colorful costumes and crazy concepts, up on a stage that…
Concert Review: Soundgarden – Metropolis, Montreal – July 13th 2014
Nothing says « time flies » like realizing that Soundgarden’s Superunknown album turns 20 years old this year. The Seattle quartet is back on the road to promote the anniversary re-release of…
Concert Review: The Killers – Bell Centre, Montreal – July 10 2014
The Killers were in Montreal last night for a rare arena show amongst a handful of summer festival dates. The context meant a minimal stage set relying solely on lighting…
Concert Review – Lady Gaga – Bell Centre, Montreal – July 2nd 2014
Lady Gaga brought her ArtRave tour to Montreal last night, and amazed the sold out crowd with her most mature show to date.
When a movie score gets on a t-shirt
I snagged this beauty recently at Universal Studio’s theme park in Florida. Jaws sits as one of my favourite movies of all time, and it’s musical score is timeless. Still,…
Album cover in the Real World: Moving Pictures by Rush
The cover to Rush’s seminal album, 1980’s Moving Pictures, works on three different levels to illustrate the title. First of all, you can see 6 people transporting paintings, or…
Album review: The Trews
Late last year, Canadian rockers The Trews launched a PledgeMusic campaign to fund their next album. Contrary to popular crowd funding site Kickstarter, PledgeMusic is more about artists building connections…
Concert Review: Iced Earth with Sabaton and ReVamp – Corona Theatre, Montreal – April 16th 2014
It was a great night of Metal at the Corona Theatre last night. Iced Earth’s Worldwide Plagues tour made a stop in Montreal to promote their latest album, Plagues of…
Music in pictures: Beauty without sound
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. It is also said that music expresses what words can’t express. This leads me to say that a picture…