Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“Grant, the pioneering manager, revolutionized the business and helped shape the modern music industry. At the time of his death in 1995, a proposed film about his life had been in development for more than five years. It was never going to get made. And if it had, nobody would ever have believed it anyway.” […]
“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 […]
“So much has been written about Monty Python. There have been memoirs, diaries, books about the Pythons, books by the Pythons about other Pythons, articles about the books about the Pythons, countless interviews, autobiographies, documentaries…so many documentaries. I honestly think there are more hours of documentary about Python then there are hours of Python.” -Eric […]
“This is also an argument for progressive rock as a grand cultural detour that invented much of the music that’s popular now…’prog’s’ reputation has never quite recovered from a series of crises in 1977 and 1978. Punk won over the critics, disco won over the teens, and major progressive bands deflated like punctured blimps.” -David […]
“In my mind, a song is not iconic until it has stood the test of a generation – twenty-five years.” -Marc Myers (from Anatomy of a Song) When I was very young I would often spend afternoons playing my family’s modest single 45 record collection of mostly children’s songs and the theme from the Batman […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “Blunt-featured and barrel-chested with a full head of dramatically dark, pomaded hair, Klein doesn’t share his clients’ flair for fashion. He prefers sneakers and sweatshirts to paisleys and Nehru jackets. But while Klein doesn’t look like the most powerful and controversial player in the music business, he is […]
Photo credit: http://espacepourlavie.ca/en/programming/butterflies-go-free Ongoing Mac & Cheese Week, until March 16, 2015 http://www.nudabite.com/2015/02/23/montreals-maccheese-week/ Exposition UNGROUND at the Darling Foundry until March 15, 2015 http://fonderiedarling.org/en/events-past.html We Are Not Alone at the Segal Centre, until March 15, 2015 http://www.segalcentre.org/whats-on/upcoming-events/theatre-3/segal-theatre/we-are-not-alone/ Warhol Mania at the Museum of Fine Arts until March 15, 2015 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/ Art Matters 2015, March 7 […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Whenever one group displaced the other at the top of the music charts, the news ran under a screeching headline, as if the Beatles and the Stones were football rivals or opposing candidates in a high-stakes election.” -John McMillian Coke or Pepsi? Mac or PC? Maple Leafs or […]
By Mitchell Field Imagine the world before music existed. Think about that for a moment. Early man had not yet developed a need for entertainment. He was busy hunting, looking for a mate, and trying not to be eaten. Time passed until one day, either through […]