Culture

“Bono and I had dinner in Dublin. We stayed up till 3:00 in the morning and got totally shitfaced,” Alex Shoumatoff tells me over noodles… Read More »When I grow up I want to be Alex Shoumatoff

What happens when you combine a former Los Angeles b-boy, a classically-trained ballet dancer, and a lot of buzz? You get Rubberbandance Group (RBDG), the… Read More »Rubberbanddance’s new act

DJ XL5’s film collage plays with the wacky beginnings of the music video

In the third installment of The Daily’s four-part series on cultural tastemakers in Montreal,

CBC Radio 2 is kicking classical music off primetime in an effort to woo younger audiences

Vancouver slam poetry group hosts a musical orgy – complete with handclaps, banjo and melodica

Chromeo likes to refer to themselves as “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration in history,” according to Wikipedia. The tongue-in-cheek comparison is a testament to the… Read More »Chromeo: eighties homage and pure humour

Janet Werner’s saccharine sweet portraits confront us with modern takes on the feminine “ideal”

In the second installment of The Daily’s four-part series on local cultural tastemakers, David Levitz takes a look at the Montreal art scene

Caribou’s mastermind creates his own musical scene from his bedroom

Pop Rock

Babenco’s The Past has all of the elements, but doesn’t work

Music brought Fab and Frannie together when they bumped into each other at a concert a few years ago. The pair bonded over similar musical… Read More »Serendipitous sounds: Montreal’s Random Recipe

A flashing plastic owl, a children’s toy piano and two Arts students – Daily staffer Joshua Frank and Yannick Kuch – were the musical highlights… Read More »Urban Joseph make noise with guitars and Chinese toys

De Salvo and Fogwill’s film Kept and Dreamless is visually pleasant, if a bit vapid