Despite the slightly disappointing “summer” weather, the festival-goers and locals alike came through on a collective promise to make the fifteenth FME a fête to remember.

This Montreal show was the third in a series of just five North American tour dates for Cult of Luna, where, with Christmas’ help, they’ve been performing Mariner in its entirety.

Soft Sounds is a mature album, one that manages to be catchy, heartbreaking and entrancing.

The audience that night was full of Sonic Youth lovers who had come to see a living legend.

Solid proof that punk rock is alive and well in our fair city.

The work of the Montreal-based group Best Fern is not foreign to this blog — their self-titled EP, which was released around the end of the summer in 2016, stayed on CKUT’s charts.

I couldn’t have picked a better way to celebrate America’s birthday.

While their overall performance style still has an air of youthful formality, the raw talent exhibited by these musicians cannot be denied.

The concert was been an exclusive peek into another world, Licht’s performances like bedroom renditions of the best rock songs never written.

Soulful garage-rock at its finest.

Emmett McCleary is of the opinion that it’s much easier to write a sad song than a happy one, though you might not catch it right away in his intricate, snappy tracks.

Philadelphia’s Alex Giannascoli has released his much-anticipated sixth full-length release, Rocket, and it is as murky and expansive as ever.

Mac DeMarco returned to his old Montreal stomping grounds for two sold-out shows at Metropolis.

An entertaining set that harkened back to a traditional rock feel.

Cambodian-psychedelic rock group Dengue Fever opened for the Saharan blues collective Tinariwen.

It took them about 23 hours to reach North America from Melbourne, but for a week now Quivers has been taking Canada by storm with classic Aussie optimism.

She’s back to mostly singing with the booming voice of her first few albums, though she did (thankfully) play songs from White Chalk and Let England Shake.

Diet Cig’s first LP shines.

Field of Love is a vibrant jungle of synth and vocal harmonies with an overarching theme of pleasurable love; the album comes just in time to usher in Montreal’s great thaw.

A chat with Carla Sagan about the intersection of academia and musicianship, the success of “Supermoon,” and what the band has planned for the upcoming summer.

I can think of nothing better to do than gaze out of a window at the snowy deluge from the comfort of my home, with Fog Lake’s Dragonchaser playing on loop in the background.

When the topic of McGill student musicians comes up, it’s rare that the name Alexia Avina isn’t mentioned.

While touring on his latest release, the excellent Drunk, Thundercats Montreal stop did not disappoint the significant crowd that ventured out to catch the show.

I ventured up to Le Dépanneur Café in the Mile End a few weeks ago to chat with Molly Drag (née Michael Hansford) about his upcoming album, Whatever Reason.