Books

The Ox: The Authorized Biography of The Who’s John Entwistle by Paul Rees (Hachette, $38)

“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 […]

Books

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 […]

featured Music

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 […]

Film/TV

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 […]

Film/TV

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 […]

Film/TV

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/

Film/TV

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/