Subject: Montreal

• Repeater, We Are Wolves and Sparrow Love Crew (kind of)

  Last night was a celebration of Weekly favorites and new friends at the Prospector in Long Beach. "Locals Only" alum Mikey B. (Le French Kanadian) is in town doing his thang to support his M For Montreal gig and paired up with the Weekly’s own Kevin P. bringing another great Pull Your Pants Up night to those tiresome weekdays. The lineup: We Are Wolves (from Montreal, naturally), Repeater and Sparrow Love Crew. SLC’s number one (and possibly most inebriated) fan stood outside on the sidew

  February 5, 2008

• Radiohead's N. American Tour Dates Announced

  Closest the British mope-rock kings come to OC is a two-date run at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 24 and 25. Pre-sale tix are available April 9 and general on-sale April 12. Grizzly Bear support Aug. 3-15, Liars Aug. 19-28. Radiohead have good taste. August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN August 4 - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Pa

  April 7, 2008

• Video Savant: Jamie Lidell's “The City” (Live)

  Here we find rising UK soul superstar Jamie Lidell shortly before he dropped his 2005 breakthrough album Multiply. At this 2004 show in London, Lidell is in full-on experimental beatboxing mode. Creating rhythms and textures with his looped, extraordinarily supple vocal cords run through mysterious little boxes and Cycling '74 software, Lidell weaves complex matrices of tics, shticks, moans, wails, hiccups and gasps. The result is some of the funkiest glossolalia ever to ricochet around a venue.

  May 20, 2008

• Cirque du Great Park?

  The Orange County Great Park Corp. board today unanimously recommended that the Irvine City Council authorize the board's CEO Michael Ellzey to enter formal negotiations with Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil to bring its winter 2010 touring production to the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station base. Council approval is very likely as all five council members sit on the Great Park board. To say the vote was a forgone conclusion is an understatement: moments after the vote, the park's hired

  November 20, 2008

• Snoop Dogg, Of Montreal Coming to Glass House

  While other venues are taking it relatively easy during the holiday season, the Glass House has bravely continued to announce shizows, including Snoop Dogg, Warren G and The Twins on Dec. 26 (Boxing Day!)--tickets on sale noon Thursday, Dec. 4 for $50. Also on the docket: Of Montreal on Feb. 19 ($25, on sale today at noon) and Bleeding Through, Acacia Strain, As Blood Runs Black and Impending Doom on Feb. 14 ($15, on sale now). Sounds like the perfect Valentine's Day show!

  December 2, 2008

• More Favorite Things!

  In this week's Weekly, I blab about some of my favorite things in music this year. Since my ego clearly cannot be contained to just a half page on a newspaper, I've got even more favorite things here (as referenced at the end of the article--that's what we call "convergence" in the biz).

  December 18, 2008

• Clues (ex-Arcade Fire and Unicorns)

  June 4, 2009

• Chloe Lum of AIDS Wolf Is Sick. No, Really

  March 19, 2009

• Post-Death From Above 1979, Sebastien Grainger Will Survive

  March 26, 2009

• TONIGHT: of Montreal at the Glass House

  Noted indie poppers/Elephant 6 collective members/eccentric personalities/Outback Steakhouse pitchmen of Montreal are in concert tonight at the Glass House. Can't make it out there? Our very own Spencer Kornhaber will be there, and will have a full review up here tomorrow. We'll also have photos from Chad Sengstock. You can pretend they don't exist, but we'd prefer you didn't.

  February 19, 2009

• Slideshow: of Montreal at the Glass House

  of Montreal is known for their garish stage shows, so why not take a look at our pictures from last night's show at the Glass House in Pomona from Chad Sengstock? So colorful! Our guy Spencer Kornhaber was there and will have a full report coming later today.

  February 20, 2009

• Slideshow: NOFX at the Grove of Anaheim

  Think that of Montreal was the only show that we were at last night? Of course not! Our pal Andrew Youssef was snapping away at last night's show at the Grove of Anaheim from punk vets NOFX, with openers Pour Habit and Smoke or Fire. The pictures: here! Get to clickin', yo.

  February 20, 2009

• Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

  Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-ish tour will close out with two dates at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine--where they had a mini-reunion during the encore of one of Gwen Stefani's solo shows back in June 2007--on July 31 a

  February 25, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 3/11

  Banned Book Group, 7 p.m.Join Barnes and Noble's Banned Book Club for this month's discussion of Life of Pi, a story about a 16-year-old boy who sees no fault in being a Muslim, a Christian and a Hindu simultaneously. Written by Yann Martel, this story about faith and tolerance of all religions won the Booker Prize and caused a great amount of controversy, not only for its religious claims, but also for the plagiarism scandal surrounding the tale.Barnes & Noble, 7881 Edinger Ave., Huntingto

  March 11, 2009

• Wener Watch Wednesday: Wener Strikes Again!

  First, major props to OC Register music writer Ben Wener for having such a great sense of humor about the original Wener Watch. He's a good sport!That being said, last week Wener returned to his old habits of writing really, really, really long opening paragraphs that are all one giant sentence (I've lovingly dubbed them "sentegraphs"). It appeared in his otherwise lovely review of J.J. Cale at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano:"It's a shame Leonard Cohen is so, well, Leonard Cohen that nex

  April 8, 2009

• Montreal's Plants and Animals Fly South for the Winter

  March 5, 2009

• Ferocious Beats

  September 25, 2008

• Plants and Animals Make Orchestral Rock Fun

  June 26, 2008

• Tegan and Sara's Subtly Subversive, Tart Pop Comes to the Glass House

  April 17, 2008

• CD Review

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Ghislain Poirier, No Ground Under (Ninja Tune)

  January 10, 2008

• Big Bangs

  Stars

  November 8, 2007

• Sprawl of Sound

  Heavenly Beats, Demonic Metal, Slack Clergy: Absorbing Seattle’s Decibel Festival, Assessing Disney’s HOB Flub, Heeding Lazy Preacher

  October 4, 2007

• DESERT STORM

  May 5, 2005

• Hits!

  Music Revolution
  

  September 13, 2007

• Freak No-Show?!

  April 22, 1999

• The Sound and the Fury

  Land of Talk

  June 7, 2007

• Junkyard Poetry

  Diavolos dance is shaped around its odd industrial props

  October 6, 2005

• Album Review

  December 7, 2006

• Shameless Plug

  October 5, 2006

• Nice Package

  September 15, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 28, 2005

• The Difference

  July 14, 2005

• Romance and Resistance

  September 16, 2004

• Pure Pop for Poster People

  September 9, 2004

• Cover Me!

  February 26, 2004

• Unanswered Questions

  May 23, 2002

• Circumcision, Please!

  May 17, 2001

• Subverting Convention

  April 5, 2001

• Ethnic Fare

  April 6, 2000

• Cirque du Soleil Confirms 2010 Tour Stop in Great Park

  Photo courtesy of Cirque du Soleil"The Trickster" of Cirque du Soleil's "Kooza."There's not much to the park yet, but the Orange County Great Park in Irvine has been confirmed as a 2010 tour stop for the freaky French-Canadian circus Cirque du Soleil, OCGP chairman Larry Agran announced today.Montreal-based Cirque's new show Kooza--which made its U.S. premiere in New York last month and is set to open Oct. 16 on the Santa Monica Pier--is scheduled to begin its Orange County limited engagement Ja

  May 12, 2009

• [CD Review] Sunset Rubdown, 'Dragonslayer' (Jagjaguwar)

  June 25, 2009

• [Locals Only] The Colourist Are Already Local Favourites

  July 30, 2009

• Dance Music Pick of the Week: Sultan at Code

  ​In the early '00s, after the hype of club culture peaked and many Johnny-come-latelys went home, a new generation of DJs and producers ascended. These younger men and women entered club-land for the right reasons--the music--and came armed with digital-production and social-networking skills that put vinyl-toting veterans to shame. The likes of James Zabiela, Deadmau5, 16 Bit Lolitas and Joris Voorn emerged as both technical and artistic whizzes.Montreal-based Sultan is at the vanguard of tha

  August 12, 2009

• Slideshows: The Offspring at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Clues at Detroit Bar, Eagles of Death Metal at the Glass House

  Another weekend is gone, and do we even need to say once more that it was a busy one for the ol' OC Weekly? Well, you've probably already read the sterling review of the Offspring at Irivne's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Friday night by our guy David J. Nicolas. But have you seen the photos taken by Robert Fayette? No? Well, they're here! But if you thought Friday was good, Saturday was even show-ier! Like Clues at Detroit Bar--a show I was at. The Montreal band was neat, with some nifty ins

  June 8, 2009

• The Colourist; As Tall As Lions

  August 27, 2009

• Heard Mentality: Headed to Street Scene!

  ​Seeing as how we're the closest Village Voice Media paper to San Diego, we feel a profound sense of obligation to cover this weekend's Street Scene festival. Yes, that's right, obligation--not the opportunity to hang out in the Gaslamp District checking out awesome bands. It's all about obligation, for sure.The OC Weekly all-star team of writer Nate Jackson, photographer Beth Stirnaman and myself will be hitting up both days of the fest, checking out acts like M.I.A., Bands of Horses, Calexic

  August 28, 2009

• Henry Clay People Rule LA With a Sound Made Possible by Yorba Linda

  September 10, 2009

• Yo Gabba Gabba! Soundtrack Coming in October

  ​Nick Jr.'s Yo Gabba Gabba! isn't a typical kiddie fare and anyone that's into music should know that by now, and it's not just those oddly appealing monsters and robots like the Gary Baseman-esque Muno. The show--co-created by Huntington Beach resident/Aquabats lead singer Christian Jacobs, by the way--has featured surprisingly hip bands so many times that it's really not surprising any more. Among the names: the Roots, Of Montreal, Mates of States, the Shins, Hot Hot Heat, Chromeo and Mark M

  September 24, 2009

• All-Encompassing Comic-Con Photo Post! Part One!

  ​I spent most of my time at Comic-Con International in San Diego holed up in extremely specific comic book-centric panels that only the most dedicated geeks could possibly care about, and sometimes not even then. (I know you guys are all so psyched that Power Girl is going to be team leader in the new JSA All Stars comic! Er, right?) So I was nowhere near the mess of humanity that was the giant lines that was Thursday's Twilight panel, for instance. (Phew!) But I still saw plenty of fun stuff;

  July 27, 2009

• Lady Gaga Announces Tour, Skips Orange County

  ​OK, so we all know by now that the Kanye West/Lady Gaga show at the Honda Center, once scheduled for November 15, isn't happening. Heck, the whole "Fame Kills" tour isn't happening. But even though Kanye is dealing with his own post-Taylor Swift issues, the hope still remained that the seemingly more stable Lady Gaga (insert your own "you know you're in trouble when Lady Gaga is the sane one" jokes here) would announce her own tour, and hit us up solo-style. Well, half of that came true.As re

  October 16, 2009