Presented by Sound on Sound Fest, starring headliner + co-curator WASHED OUT, and featuring JESSY LANZA, JACQUES GREENE (live set), SHE-DEVILS, + more. Shoutout to our friends at Modelo + Stem for helping to make this possible...
The insane amount of amazing music that seems to magically emanate from the orbit of our favorite extended Montreal crew -- see the stellar new jams from Forever and Cam Maclean in the past couple weeks alone, not to mention that new TOPS record -- continues with the latest romantic transmission from Thom Gillies (Vesuvio Solo, formerly TOPS) and June Moon (Forever), aka Exit Someone...
Our album of the summer is here: Montreal's TOPS drop their best full-length yet, a timeless collection of breezy, instantly familiar pop jams (see "Petals", "Cutlass Cruiser"), intoxicating slow-burners that only reveal their true magic after you've earned it with your time and undivided attention, and a few stellar tracks that defy either of these classifications ("Dayglow Bimbo", "Topless")...
Psyched to premiere this absolutely lovely new one from young Montreal musician and photographer Tess Roby, taken from her new 12", out today on Italians Do It Better, and streaming below. The pensive, dreamily swaying "Ballad 5" will also appear on Roby's new record, coming later this year on Italians...
Psyched to debut this dope new one from Forever, aka June Moon, a Montreal pop provocateur who's been responsible for some of our favorite jams of the past year or so, as part of soft-rock group Exit Someone and seductive "paradise party" duo Cafe Lanai...
We were lucky enough to catch Montreal duo She-Devils down at SXSW last week, where we were entranced and transported by the hazy, lucid-dream-like atmosphere that Audrey Ann + Kyle Jukka channeled on a patio in the middle of a sunny downtown Austin afternoon...
We are beyond psyched to premiere the new single from one of our favorite bands of the last half-decade or so, Montreal's TOPS. "Petals" is a sinuous, timeless soft-funk-pop jam with some of the most bitingly relatable lyrics you'll hear in 2017 -- “got a phone full of numbers and a list full of names / no one to call / not much to say, anyway” -- taken from the group's stellar forthcoming album Sugar at the Gate, which was recorded in LA at a spot called "Glamdale," a mini-mansion and former brothel out in Glendale...
Montreal's Young Galaxy returns with a poignant call to arms for these uncertain times, reminding us to always stay real in the face of change, to be true to yourself, and to choose love over fear...
Montreal's Exit Someone, a group we fell in love with almost a year ago on the strength of their wonderful debut single, follows up a great recent non-EP jam and a low-key beautiful Robert Palmer cover with their first official physical release, out today on Atelier Ciseaux...