MARTHA WAINWRIGHT – Going Round The Bend? For an album with so many writers involved Martha Wainwright has pulled off a bit of a coup here, managing to corral a herd of disparate sounds and...
The Many Faces of RUST EDEN Yet another great Montreal band that reached my ears thanks to the Xmas List of Poulet Neige! Rust Eden is a cool indie rock band that takes the time...
JESCA HOOP – An Old Soul… Tom Waits says of Jesca Hoop: 'She is like an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at...
A Tribute to Over 350 Musicians who Passed Away in 2016 Another year has gone into history. 2016 is no more. Many musicians left us during the last 12 months. Many were famous, but many more weren’t as...
Why I Hope I’ll Never be Good I’ve been playing guitar for about 25 years, 15 of them “professionally” whatever that means. There may have been a 20-minute window in 2011...
Best of 2016 In my humble opinion, 2016 has been a shitty music year. Primo: he deaths of Prince, Bowie, Cohen, Sharon Jones and so many other I cannot recall...
SOLANGE – The Centre of Attention Being the sister of the Diva of soul must not be an easy place to be for Solange Knowles. A bit like Beyoncé's ex-bandmates of Destiny's Child, she...
5 albums that impressed me in 2016 In a bad or a great way, here are 5 albums that didn't go unnoticed in the last 12 months. 1 DEATH GRIPS - Interview 2016 (Third World...
2016: A superb tragedy One needs a little bit of black humour to get through a year like 2016. Pointless for me to regurgitate every ugly detail, every single huge loss in...
Lost in Music – 10 albums for 2016 10! Nowhere near enough is it. But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. CASS McCOMBS - MANGY LOVE (Anti-) 8th trip to the well for Cass and...
JESSE MAC CORMACK – Raw Blues In an exclusive RREVERB interview in November 2015, music consultant Pedro Barbosa answered “Jesse Mac Cormack” when I asked him, "Which...
JOSEPH ARTHUR – Owning Lou Reed New York musician and painter Joseph Arthur has been a Lou Reed fan for the longest time. When the Velvet Underground leader passed away on October...
AGNES OBEL – In a Different Mood Agnes Obel is a Danish singer-songwriter that had charmed many ears and hearts with her 2013 album “Aventine". The world met a talented melodist...
Welcome to THE GROWLERS’ Beach Goth! The Growlers is a California based band which has been labeled as Beach Goth, a mixture basically of surf folkish upbeat rhythms and rich in reverb...
Thank you MR COHEN A great singer-songwriter has left us today. The great Leonard Cohen passed away at age 82. He was born in Montreal, and often, when I walk in the...
JOHN CALE – Sharp! It is always very impressive when you are about to see a concert from an artist that you really respect. There is this excitement, in the days before...
10 reasons not to miss JOHN CALE live For its 14th edition, the festival most oriented on musical discoveries, POP MONTREAL, has a great guest: Mister John Cale. In a rare visit in...
BJÖRK – Formely Known as The Artist When Prince passed away back in May, a friend and I disagreed on his place in music history. As many others, he was putting the "genius" stamp on...
The RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY hits Montreal From September 24 to October 28, the Red Bull Music Academy will touch down in Montreal for a deep and distinguished exploration of Canadian and...
BJÖRK Announces Digital Exhibition & Live Performances (News Release from One Little Indian Records - August 23, 2016) - Björk has announced that she will be holding the Björk Digital Exhibition in...
HANNAH GEORGAS – Creative Pop is Possible Hannah Georgas is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Vancouver, which has been noticed in the last few years with Juno nominations. Both her first...
LANA DEL REY – Lost in Melancholy Lana Del Rey is a persona. Most pop stars are. At RREVERB, we don't care what musicians do or wear outside the studio or behind the scenes. We put...
THE TRAGICALLY HIP – The freedom within On May 24, 2016, the world learned very sad news. The Tragically Hip announced that their lead singer and main composer Gordon Downie was hit by...
DAVID BOWIE – Who is he, really? We all know how the great late David Bowie changed music styles many times, always being ahead of the trends, keeping a cool factor throughout his...
The 2016 POLARIS Music Prize Short List Revealed News Release from Polaris, Toronto, ON – Thursday, July 14, 2016 - The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC Music and produced by Blue Ant Media,...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – The Best Of All Worlds It is not news to anyone: Rufus Wainwright is grand. His theatrical style and endearing personality have conquered it all from the moon and back and...
MISC – What is great jazz? What is great jazz? This question can have lots of different answers, depending on whom you ask it to. There are different tastes, different currents...
Montreal Jazz Festival Opening Day – Free Shows Walkabout Montreal Jazz Fest is so big at this point, it's hard to walk around the dedicated entire neighbourhood blocked off for it. So many people, from...
BIG THIEF – Stealing the show Striking guitars (on the fiery Real Love), great melodies (the lovely Masterpiece) and an efficient mix of male / female energy (on Paul) makes the...
The Truth About Being a Successful BEATMAKER As part of the Francofolies's industry workshops series, one particularly stood out on the subject of Beatmaking. The workshop was lead by an...
30 years of NUITS D’AFRIQUE in Montreal! News Release from the Festival - Montréal, May 25, 2016 – It’s been 30 years already! This year, Montréal’s Festival International Nuits...
PLANTS & ANIMALS – That Montreal Summer Feel… The Montreal trio has gained a lot of experience since their fantastic debut, "Parc Avenue", back in 2008. On top of the 4 albums and 2 EP they made...
13th Edition of the Montreal REGGAE Festival News Release from the Festival - Montreal, June 6, 2016 - On August 26, 27 and 28, the Montreal International Reggae Festival (MIRF) will roll out...
ISLANDS – Too Darn Easy Everything seems too easy for the talented musicians that form Islands. In 2016, Nicholas Thorburn, Evan and Geordie Gordon and Adam Halferty...
METHYL ETHEL – Perfect Balance It is tough to find the balance between catchy music and solid artistic direction. Some fall into the more pop side of things (e.g. LaRoux) while...
MUSIC TASTES GOOD Festival Lineup Announced! News Release from MTG Festival - May 9th, 2016 - The Specials, Iron & Wine, Sylvan Esso, Squeeze, De La Soul, Dr. Dog, Warpaint, Gallant, Deltron...
FILTER live – Innovative harmony of bombast and cacophony Industrial rock idols Filter returned to the Gramercy Theater in New York City Tuesday night to throttle the crowd with its unconventional synthesis...
IGGY POP – Rebirth at 69 Music legends are falling one after the other. In the last few months, we have said fairwell to Scott Weiland (48 years old) Lemmy (70), Bowie (69),...
LAURA GIBSON – What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger Laura Gibson has been singing folk songs since 2010. Her 4th album "Empire Builder" shows how much experience and talent she has accumulated since...
TRAVIS – This guy’s got soul Back in late 90s, rock music was reinventing itself (as it is constantly doing), somewhere between lounge music, electronic experiments as grunge...
