Montreal's One Man Band Festival refreshes an old idea, and raises the profile of innovative solo artists from Montreal, the R.O.C. and beyond.

NYC's Anamanaguchi, playing Il Motore tonight, take the video-game-derived chiptune style into the future.

If you dug Couchella, Boiler Room TV invites you to party with hipsters around the world — and now even here in Montreal — from the comfort of home. Here's how last night's local debut went over.

With cigar-box guitars, keys, strings and voices, AroarA bring the cut-up work of a Pulitzer-winning poet to life on their EP (and forthcoming LP), In the Pines, launching with a kind-of secret show this week.

Socalled crams rappers, singers, puppets, harpists, a string quartet and an indie rhythm section onto his new record, The Season.

There is no substitute for the rustic setting and concentrated programming offered by Victo, aka the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville.

Palma Violets are the latest band to don the buzz crown, coronation care of the infamous British music press. Cult MTL caught up with the guys ahead of their Montreal debut, on their way back east from Coachella.

Montreal songsmith Andrew Johnston found a new way to attract a global audience, by inviting everyone to rework his song, and hurl the occasional insult.

Montreal quartet le Couleur and their label Lisbon Lux Records champion a sophisticated synthetic pop sound

Local austere rockers Reversing Falls are a squealing guitar band in a time where it’s slightly unfashionable to be one. Their eponymous first full-length, launching at Casa tonight, is wall-to-wall catchy, single-calibre pop-rock ditties trimmed of any unnecessary fat.

Montreal's enigmatic singer-songwriter, scenester and restaurateur Beaver Sheppard on running wild afterhours, sitting on a solo record for two years and getting deep and crazy with new music projects.

Pro skater, skate rocker and Shake Junt propagator Shane Heyl talks to Cult MTL about the band's Lil Wayne collab, screaming punk at Cat Power fans and chasing fame. The Goat and the Occasional Others play the Canadian premiere of The Deathwish Video tomorrow night.