“Entwistle’s contemporary and fellow bassist, the former Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, once dubbed him ‘the Jimi Hendrix of the bass guitar’. This was meant as the highest compliment but, with it, Wyman also inadvertently conjured the very demon that would haunt Entwistle throughout his professional life. Indisputably, he was a virtuoso musician, easily the most […]
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The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘N’ Roll by Ian S. Port (Scribner, $37)
“They must have amused each other – so similar were they, yet so different. If not for their overlapping fascination with amplification and musical instruments, they might not have become friends.” -from The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port (page 34) For my fourteenth birthday my father drove me to a music store on […]
U2 nights of eXPERIENCE
Ever since 1991’s Zoo TV tour U2 has been at the forefront of recreating what a rock spectacle can achieve by pushing the boundaries of technology, staging and integrating it all with their music. The 2015 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour took the reinvention of arena rock concerts to a whole new level. They incorporated a […]
Must-See Montreal Events in June 2018
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for June 2018: MUSIC Many top touring acts are headlining various Montreal concert venues this month. After rehearsing their 2018 Experience + Innocence Tour for two weeks at Place Bell in Laval this spring, U2 headline the Centre Bell on June 5 and 6. Other Bell Centre […]
U2 Songs of emotional and personal Experience
It’s been three years since Songs of Innocence and a lot has happened on the political and personal landscape to cause several rewrites and nine producers to help U2 craft Songs of Experience. Whereas Innocence was about the past and growing up this is an album that shows a looking back or reflection of experience […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing ** Montreal SketchFest until May 31, 2015 http://montrealsketchfest.com ** Duo Show: Mirabolle and MonstR at Fresh Paint Gallery, until May 31, 2015 http://www.freshpaintgallery.ca ** Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, until May 31, 2015 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/marvels-and-mirages-of-orientalism/ •• Mutek Montreal // until May 31, 2015 at Musée Contemporain de […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing Montreal SketchFest until May 31, 2015 http://montrealsketchfest.com PikNIk Électronique at Parc Jean Drapeau, until June 16, 2015 http://piknicelectronik.com Triplex Nervosa at the Centaur Theatre, extended until May 24, 2015 http://www.centaurtheatre.com/triplexnervosa.php Duo Show: Mirabolle and MonstR at Fresh Paint Gallery, until May 31, 2015 http://www.freshpaintgallery.ca Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism at the Montreal Museum […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing **Butterflies Go Free at the Insectarium until April 26, 2015 http://calendrier.espacepourlavie.ca/butterflies-go-free?utm_source=site_eplv_insect_en&utm_medium=what-to-see&utm-campaign=papillons-en-liberte Triplex Nervosa at the Centaur Theatre, until May 17, 2015 http://www.centaurtheatre.com/triplexnervosa.php Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, until May 31, 2015 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/marvels-and-mirages-of-orientalism/
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing The Envelope at the Centaur Theatre, until April 19, 2015 http://www.centaurtheatre.com/theenvelope.php Festival Printemps Numérique at Quartier des Spectacles until April 20, 2015 http://printempsnumerique.info/en/ Butterflies Go Free at the Insectarium until April 26, 2015 http://calendrier.espacepourlavie.ca/butterflies-go-free?utm_source=site_eplv_insect_en&utm_medium=what-to-see&utm-campaign=papillons-en-liberte Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, until May 31, 2015 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/marvels-and-mirages-of-orientalism/
Song of Spider-Man by Glen Berger (Simon & Schuster, $28.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtians Up! “…this whole book is a story about storytelling – the story of an epic attempt by earnest human beings to tell a story and tell it brilliantly.” -Glen Berger Anyone who knows me well is aware that live theater is not my favorite form of entertainment. And that […]