Keep MTL Weird

15/11/2023

♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ track review ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ
kalo just released the tragic yet heartwarming acoustic track “Bear’s Song”! an ode to her dear lost friend, this song reminisces on the good times they shared together and ponders on the fragility of life and death. energy and the possibility of being reunited mystify Viv’s storytelling through her soothing voice.
records to stream and look out for other awesome jamhouse releases 🌸✨

28/10/2021

hello mtl!!
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19/10/2021

[EVENT REVIEW]
We were lucky enough to catch Alok Vaid-Menon's live performance at the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) last week! Here's our recap of the night.
Author: Sam Fisch
Photography: Adrian Vaktor
https://keepmtlweird.com/alok-the-mai/

October 12th 2021 The MAI was bustling the night of Alok’s performances as both shows for the evening were sold out. Between their two published books (“Beyond the Gender Binary” and “Femme in Public”), their online activism to degender fashion and their impressive social media presence, A...

01/09/2021

[VIDEO PREMIERE]
If you've got a head like Montreal weather, you should definitely check out The Grand Mess's new music video for "Think of Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32hoooXkYs8

Think of Me - The Grand Mess (Official Music Video)Listen to "Think of Me" by The Grand Mess HERE:https://ffm.to/thegrandmess_thinkofmeFollow The Grand Mess ...

25/06/2021

Stream here!
Bandcamp:
https://friscolee.bandcamp.com/album/fever-dream-supreme
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2e9OGFxiY03Z1tZ6RKO9gR

Frisco Lee Music's latest album "Fever Dream Supreme" dropped right after a full moon night of city-wide debauchery and we were lucky enough to get a short interview!

Musical Inspirations:

My diet consisted of Steely Dan, Vulfpeck, Elton John, Leon Russell, Neal Francis, James Brown, Dr. John - all of which I blended in with the sensibilities of Mac DeMarco and The Beatles. Another notable influence would have to be Beck, who never thought twice about trying out new styles and pushing them to the limit. I basically just wanted to finally make the music that I had always enjoyed listening to.

Process: 


I didn’t have lyrical context or ideas about how long or lush the songs would become. Initially, they were all going to be video game soundtracks, and I didn’t want them to have any guitar or vocals in them, but that changed after one of the songs seemed to want to become a ballad, so lyrics were added. At that point, I realized I was making an album, so I started to think about lyrics for all the other songs, and that forced me to really shape the form to fit a lyrical style.
After a few months of arranging and composing and recording, I was stubborn enough to take on mixing the whole album. That part took many more months, because I had no experience in that department, but it was a very valuable learning process.

Future direction:

Since restrictions have been lifted, I've started to assemble a team of musicians I’ve worked with before to take the music to the stage and hopefully play some outdoor shows this summer, including a proper album release show sometime soon. In the very near future, I plan on performing a full run-through of the album, live and filmed in studio. There’s also a cinematic music video for “Your Old Teenage Ways” in the works.

10 track album

12/05/2021

[ALBUM RELEASE]
we can't get enough of Checkmate, the latest album from local trailblazer MAGELLA

Bandcamp: https://magella.bandcamp.com/releases
Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/5lcXbsHF6llRxdLnV

6 track album

03/05/2021

Lately we've been seriously digging this track by vocalist & cellist Alexis Castrogiovanni, give it a listen if you're ready to feel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5mXq7smgMA

Submitted to CBC Searchlight Competition 2021 Written in Ottawa on the un-ceded territories of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation. Recorded and produced in Tioh...

12/04/2021

This is NOT* a police state.

Montreal Police Clears Park la FontaineApril 10th 2021

05/02/2021

Issu de son excellent premier opus ‘’Never Ending Loops’’, Wooden Drone nous présente un vidéo-clip pour la pièce Felicia Love. Pour accompagner la chanson aux mélodies aussi profondes que complexes, le producteur Montréal a choisi de réaliser un clip sur le logiciel Unreal Engine – le résultat est fascinant.

Via Indie Montreal

From the Album ''Never Ending Loops'', Wooden Drone present his first official clip for ''Felicia Love'', realized in Unreal Engine with the latest tools in ...

01/02/2021

Excité de vous présenter en ce début de semaine une découverte qui va très certainement s’imposer dans le paysage électronique montréalais. Une production mélodieuse aux textures profondes qui rappellent souvent l'intensité d’un morceau de Nicolas Jaar.
Tint

08/01/2021

La Levantine- Firas Nassri - Keep Mtl Weird

We've come out of hibernation to celebrate the warmth of Firas Nassri Music's new album, La Levantine.
Album review by Samantha Fisch

Download/Stream : https://fanlink.to/firasnassrilalevantine

Via Cosmovision Records
http://keepmtlweird.com/index.php/2021/01/08/la-levantine-firas-nassri/

Escape the bleakness of our cold and dark Montreal winter and enter La Levantine, Firas Nassri’s radiant debut solo album. After two releases as part of the electronic band Beige-À-Coeur, Firas focuses on his own unique sound in his solo project. This album does what we cannot right now: it cross...

26/10/2020

Mole Machine - Dancing On A Tipping Point (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Mixing minimal techno instrumentals to ambient atmospheres to create truly immersive tracks, Mole Machine recently released his latest album ‘’Dancing Plague’’, with a fascinating clip for ‘’Dancing On A Tipping Point’’.

The full album is available here https://molemachine.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-plague

Via Unlog

Taken from the new EP "Dancing Plague".Listen to it here: https://fanlink.to/molemachine_dancingplagueMore info: molemachine.net - unlog.info//Video by Mole Mac...

23/10/2020

thaïs - Paradis Artificiels

thaïs, a pop artist that we’ve been following for a little while now, just released her very first EP ‘’Paradis Artificiels’’.
4 floating ambient pop tracks with beautiful instrumentals that will make you travel on this sunny afternoon 🌞🌞🌞
https://ffm.to/thaisparadisartificiels

Choisis ton service de streaming préféré pour écouter le 1er EP de thaïs

16/10/2020

Mars (Prod. Jonny Tobin)

Janette King recently released a video for her Alternative R&B track ‘’Mars’’, which she directed, edited, and produced herself.

Watch it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXRaIOAlxI

Via Hot Tramp

Connect with Janette: www.JanetteKing.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/Janette.King Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janettekingmusic Soundcloud: https://...

13/10/2020

Naghmeh and the Southern Shores

It’s a gloomy morning Montreal.
Lucky for us, Naghmeh and the Southern Shores chose today to release this beautiful and inspiring video, quieting the mind and relaxing the spirit.
Recorded at MR-63 Montréal

Merci Jewell for capturing the gorgeous morning
Merci Seth Duin and Kevin Britten for playing the song with me on that sizzling morning.
Et merci MR-63 Montréal for the beautiful space and unforgettable stage.

This video was recorded on a very special day, as I bid farewell to Seth and welcomed Kevin Britten to the band. It was a nostalgic promise to stay connected and thriving through the magic of music. With the passage of time and the new reality we live in, this promise is one we would like to extend to our fans and the music community. Now more than ever, we call upon music to connect us all, across borders and time zones, walls and windows. Time, and memory.

Au plaisir de se retrouver, de jouer de la musique, et recréer des souvenirs mélodiques.

07/10/2020

The Brooks - Gameplay [Official Video]

Montreal-based funk collective The Brooks are finally back with an ambitious video for ‘’Gameplay’’, almost as psychedelic as the track itself.

THE BROOKS Gameplay Sometimes, you have to explore the coldest lands to discover the most ardent sounds! Thanks to their clever...

28/09/2020

Alexis Castrogiovanni - Someday My Thoughts Will Be Like A Range Of Mountains

Check out Alexis Castrogiovanni's latest music video for "Someday My Thoughts Will Be Like A Range Of Mountains", an intimate display of the profound and transcendental beauty of softness. Her sound, much like the style of her video, is both technical and delicate.

According to Alexis,
"The song is about wanting so badly to be better than we are, wanting to have these perfect days and minds and lives, wanting to finally understand what it means to have a good life, or a meaningful life… it’s that feeling of starving for connection, purpose, a spiritual centre, while always being aware of this huge spoiler: we die at the end"

https://youtu.be/Ujfz39UhbbY

Someday My Thoughts Will Be Like A Range Of Mountains Cello/vocal/lyrics: Alexis Castrogiovanni Recorded/filmed by Zak Aubin Someday my thoughts will be like...

08/09/2020

Battle of Wits LIVE!

One of our favourite MTL venues The Diving Bell Social Club / Club Social Le Scaphandre is opening back.

A LIVE COMEDY QUIZ SHOW. HOSTED BY: ELSPETH WRIGHT

25/08/2020

Bad Luck Jealousy - Just Like Heaven

[NOSTALGIA]
We've been reminiscing on Bad Luck Jealousy's cover of this classic by The Cure from last summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6xQntICTY

wanted to try this out. Cover, The cure, Cover it and change the lyrics, I did, And made a video - That was supposed to be simple But dragged on and on over ...

20/08/2020

Jazz on the Block - Keep Mtl Weird

[EVENT REVIEW AND INTERVIEW]
We had an incredible time at Jazz on the Block last
Saturday and took a moment to chat with Mo Dibo about how these secret jazz shows all started!

All photos are ©Renaud Labelle

http://keepmtlweird.com/index.php/2020/08/20/jazz-on-the-block/

13/08/2020

Booster Fawn - What Will We Do? (Lockdown Video)

[ VIDEO PREMIERE ]
Booster Fawn come to us trailblazing down St-Laurent in a psychedelic inferno here to ask us the ultimate question: "What Will We Do- when the song ends?" As fate is always in our hands we must choose to strut in confidence- a red blazer and shades sets the right tone. Their new video provides a mood-shaping mind-bending lens through which we can transform our city, why not check it out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtYwvyuJbs&fbclid=IwAR23vp5sMcXNSpDsx6qqg8Dmr0c6xYvJa6M636EHAH0faDSs1p0GLuV_Gp0&app=desktop

vid recorded just a few days before lockdown on Saint-Laurent Street in Montreal filmed by Mathieu Philibert boosterfawn.bandcamp.com

07/08/2020

P1LLARS - The Grand Mess - Keep Mtl Weird

[Track Release]
P1LLARS- The Grand Mess
http://keepmtlweird.com/index.php/2020/08/07/p1llars-the-grand-mess/
Review by Samantha Fisch

Take a moment to chill out from our scorching Montreal summer and check out this fresh track from The Grand Mess, out today on most streaming platforms. We adore this song best late on a cloudy night, right when you want to tune out the rest of the world for a while. What’s especially great

29/07/2020

Foam Born - Blue Odeur (Official Video)

[ Video Premiere ]
Foam Born
by Blue Odeur

Foam Born is the first single off Blue Odeur's upcoming album. The track is built around a rhyming couplet, repeated at the end; "my love is a foam born fest...

29/07/2020

Downtown by Beaver Sheppard - Keep Mtl Weird

[Album Review]
Downtown - Beaver Sheppard
by Joshua Seguin

http://keepmtlweird.com/index.php/2020/07/28/downtown-by-beaver-sheppard/

On some days I’m not sure if I am a real person. On this particular day, however, the saxophone on the opening track of Beaver Sheppard’s 5th solo album (“Downtown”) is just what I need to wake up and feel alive. Although my expectations for this album were high (it’s a well-known fact tha...

21/07/2020

Gr**go blanco

Pour les fans de folk mélodieuse et de ligne mélodique venue du soleil du sud.

Les Pics À Flore ''Gr**go blanco''

Provided to YouTube by CDBaby Gr**go blanco · Les Pics À Flore Pas d'love en décembre, Vol. 1 & 2 ℗ 2019 Les Pics À Flore Released on: 2019-09-01 Auto-genera...

20/07/2020

Anthem for a Burnt Out Girl - Eve Parker Finley - Keep Mtl Weird

Eve Parker Finley - ''Anthem for a Burnt Out Girl''

By Joshua Seguin

“Anthem for a Burt Out Girl” is Eva Parker Finley’s first release using her real name. Formerly Lonely Boa, this is my first experience with this wonderful artist. As soon as the song began, I transcended reality and was taken to this artist’s highly special world. All the elements are here ...

06/07/2020

Silver Lining - Tako.to - Keep Mtl Weird

[Album Review]
Silver Lining – Tako.to

By Joshua Seguin
Via Sub River Record

It’s easy for me to feel stressed out. With work, constant stream of information from the media and dealing with other people’s problems, it’s hard sometimes for me to catch a break. This morning, as I turned on Tako.To recently released “Sliver Lining”, all the stress that I had been accu...

29/06/2020

II Sunrise / Sunset by Flying Teapots - Keep Mtl Weird

''Delay pedals are literally sculpting the air around you as sci-fi layers of sounds widen to make you feel like you are holding Time’s hand.''

New Music Review by Joshua Seguin

Jeunesse Cosmique

The very weird and very Montreal independent label Jeunesse Cosmique just turned 10 at the beginning of March 2020. Since day one they’ve released nearly 100 different projects ranging from bands to unique one-off performances to solo spaceship explorations to Phillip K. Dick inspired experimental...

26/06/2020

Summer Solstice/Alone Together

Alone/Together, a playlist to enjoy summer and rebirth.

A mix of styles and vibes, all
from Montreal based artists and labels.

Listen to Summer Solstice/Alone Together by Keep Mtl Weird on