What is Death Grips’ new surprise instrumental album Fashion Week? Juggling many styles and sometimes unfocused, the album itself may not even know what it is. After announcing their break-up and final album on a napkin, this is likely to be the next to last Death Grips release. The last[Read More…]
Arts & Entertainment
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Cock opera takes Old Montreal
Johnny Legdick is a rock opera about oppression, identity, and above all, a man who has a leg where his penis is supposed to be.
Celebrities You Didn’t Know Could Sing
“Why Do You Let Me Stay Here” Zooey Deschanel Released: January, 2008 Zooey Deschanel has garnered massive fame in recent years with her leading role in the successful TV show New Girl. Not everyone knows that she also stars as front-woman in the indie duo She & Him next to[Read More…]
Wrapping Up the Holidays
The McGill Tribune arts team presents an overview of the movies and music you may have missed over the break.
Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins – Monuments to an Elegy
The Smashing Pumpkins’ latest studio effort, Monuments to an Elegy, comes in as the fourth and penultimate installment of the group’s ongoing project Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Given the album’s unconventional release—technically existing as an album within an album—and Billy Corgan’s incessantly vocalized desire to be appreciated as a brilliant artist[Read More…]
What’s Happening In Montreal
THEATRE — The 24 Hour Plays Watch performers perform in French and English for one full rotation of the earth. Saturday, Jan. 17, Théâtre Sainte-Catherine (264 Sainte-Catherine E). Admission is $10. LITERATURE — Steps Magazine Open Mic Join one of McGill’s own publications for a night of poetry and prose[Read More…]
Pop Rhetoric: Christopher Nolan and the cinema of abstraction
Christopher Nolan used to make movies about people. The director, along with his script-writing brother Jonathan Nolan, have made some of the best genre films of the past decade, including Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006), and two-thirds of the Dark Knight trilogy. His recent movies—particularly his latest film, Interstellar—have confirmed a[Read More…]
Student concert round-up
The Steel River Band and EMPEROR T and the Suspenders In case you’ve never heard of Barfly (4062 Saint-Laurent) before, here’s what it is in a nutshell: A hole in the wall tucked between Roy and Duluth that hosts a bluegrass night every Sunday, and is likely to be blasting[Read More…]
Small-scale artists and authors shine at Expozine
In the crowded basement of Saint-Dominique Cathedral, it seemed as if every possible genre of author, publisher, illustrator, artisan, and their devotees were in attendance at Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press fair. It showcased 300 distinctive French and English exhibitors, ranging from established publishers like Drawn and Quarterly to obscure[Read More…]
There’s no such thing as a magic bullet: Josh Hook on video games & success
Two Thursdays ago, Tokyo Police Club guitarist Josh Hook spoke to me over the phone from Whistler, BC, and warmly answered as many questions as I could muster about the band’s origins, Montreal coffee, N64 games, and advice for aspiring musicians. Hailing from Newmarket, Ontario, Tokyo Police Club first entered[Read More…]
