Tiga is a bit of a towering mythical figure in Montreal, in part due to his amazing larger than life persona but also because pretty much every facet of the local nightlife owes something to him. He's run an essential record store, venues, still operates a label (Turbo) and has come down to earth to play great sets and educate people (myself amongst them) on the delights of freak nightlife and dance music...
Blue Hawaii are a great band from Montreal composed of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, who also plays in Braids, and Alex Cowan. After a four-year hiatus they are finally coming back to release Tenderness on Arbutus later this year. I've loved this band for quite some time and thought it would be a perfect time to catch up with both of them on Skype. -- Jacques Greene
Our favorite Canadian couple Thom Gillies + June Moon aka Exit Someone star in the dreamy, pastel-hued new visual presentation for their woozy latest single, "Absent Lover". Watch the Cameron Mitchell-directed vid below, and catch the group at one of their upcoming dates this month in Toronto + Montreal:
Taken from the duo's forthcoming LP Tenderness, out October 6th:
Montreal's June Moon aka Forever shares the new video -- and "the making of a music video" -- for one of our favorite tracks of 2017, the romantic, Ouri-produced club jam "Falling". Shot on "2 cameras, in 1 day, in a dance studio, w/ 12 cuties" and directed by Forever. She tells us via email about the vid:
Jacques Greene's live set for Boiler Room last month in his hometown of Montreal has us so psyched to catch him at GvsB VI next month we can barely stand it. #GvsB6 with Washed Out, Jessy Lanza, She-Devils, Sober and Jacques Greene goes down 8/12 here in Dallas at the Bomb Factory, and it's going to be the dance party of the year...
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")...