GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR – What is Art? What is art? What is a great performance? What is an opus? What should you feel during an artistic performance? What should you feel after? You...
GREYHOUNDS – Heart and Soul This album is unique. Every song on this album is unique. Greyhounds could be compared as a rock and soul mix of TV on The Radio, The Black Keys with...
THE CULT Live – Like the world was on fire! The Cult made a triumphant return to The Paramount in Huntington, Long Island on Wednesday. The evening marked its third appearance in three years at...
CAT POWER narrates JANIS’s letters News Release from MVD Entertainment Group, March 24, 2016 - The critically acclaimed, box office smash Janis: Little Girl Blue is coming to DVD on...
AIR paved the way Before Daft Punk took the pop world by storm with Get Lucky, the most prominent French band outside of France was Air. At the turn of the century...
ASHLEY RILEY – Pursuing Dreams Ashley Riley is a singer songwriter in the true meaning of the word: her own voice, her own music, her own path. On "All the Pretty Things", she...
GIRLS IN HAWAII – The Missed One There aren't many albums that are focused on the death of a loved one that are fun to listen to. Belgian indie rock band Girls in Hawaii have...
CROSS RECORD – Not Every Musician is an Artist… …and not all artists are musicians. Every musician is an artist, but not necessarily at the same level. The ones that target the charts as a goal...
HEARTSTREETS: Montreal Girls Crawling South A few years ago, two girls from Montreal started posting some great tunes on YouTube and a lot of people paid attention. I definitely felt they...
TRSTSS – LoFi Garage Panache Indie hard punk rockers TRSTSS have put out a solid 4-song EP last autumn where we sense influences from power alt-rock à la Strokes (Problems) and...
TY SEGALL – The Strange Animal Indie art-rock freak Ty Segall could have been the persona Gowan was referring to when he sang "You're a Strange Animal, I've got to follow" in 1985...
BEACH HO– USE at Rialto, with love The atmosphere was electric at Montreal's Theatre Rialto for this sold our gig of the Baltimore duo. For one, the grandiose and slightly faded...
The Art of Songwriting: 10 Rare Gems by LOU REED Great rock musicians have left us in recent years. Two years before David Bowie’s passing, his long-time friend Lou Reed, founder and leader of the...
10 Deeper-hidden Gems by PAUL McCARTNEY I could’ve never predicted the success of my Paul McCartney Hidden Gems piece but then again, Paul is still selling out arenas and stadiums around...
DONOVAN WOODS – The Woodman’s Vulnerability I first became aware of Ontario-born singer-songwriter Donovan Woods through an UNCUT Magazine Cd Sampler that featured his song, No Time Has Passed...
THE BESNARD LAKES – Makes You Wander Masters of sound Jace Lasek and his band The Besnard Lakes strike again. The Montreal crew that handles the Breaking Glass studio where Jace Lasek...
MEN I TRUST – Perfect Beauty For guys and gals who miss the cool loungy feel of the late 90s that bands like Morcheeba used to infiltrate in our bodies, here's Men I Trust. This...
10 Hidden Gems by PAUL McCARTNEY This will be the first installment of a series that, I hope, will help you discover songs you weren’t familiar with, from artists you’re probably...
BASIA BULAT – Pop Goes The World Singer songwriter Basia Bulat, 31, isn't a newcomer anymore. We have been seeing her on every Montreal and Toronto stage since her 1st EP came out in...
OLAFUR ARNALDS & ALICE SARA OTT : A Bold Reinvention of Chopin’s Work Composer Olafur Arnalds took the bold bet to re-write Chopin's music. In a pop or rock, we would say that he "covered" Chopin: he brings a new...
LORDE – Beauty in Boredom Lorde's rise to fame late 2013, was a refreshing one. The young lady made a few statements right off the bat refusing her pictures to be...
RIHANNA: The Soul Woman, The Badass Chick and The Cheezy Ballad Singer… We all know it. Rihanna is a world-wide pop superstar that seems to spend too much of her time flashing her boobs and smoking joints on expensive...
CROSS RECORD specialize in creeping rock Pitch Perfect News Release- January 22, 2016 - “Cross Record specialize in creeping rock songs that blow in and out like storms.” — Stereogum...
CASS MC COMBS is all about contrasts Cass McCombs is an indie-rock artist that combines garage art rock with strong Velvet Underground influence. You can hear the VU through his chord...
30 years live of BAD RELIGION On February 26th, Bad Religion will release 30 Years Live, a limited edition vinyl document of the band’s now historic 2010 live shows...
CALEXICO – Welcome to Broken Heart Country In the late 90s and early years of this century, the Tucson, Arizona-based band Calexico was one of the most interesting ones of the indie rock...
DUSTED: Far away, dirty and beautiful Brian Borcherdt is a genius. He has all the skills. This guy can get pure melodic gems out of lo-fi garage rock. Like Cobain could. Like Corgan...
Remember the pre-weird BJÖRK? To many ears, the Icelandic elf always has been weirder than your average rocker, but in the early days of her solo career, she still created pop...
The 147 BEST SONGS of 2015 2015 was a great year in music! If you feel lost with the endless list of albums and singles that come out every week, this playlist is for you!...
DAVID BOWIE nails the perfect pop album If this album would have been recorded by anybody else but David Bowie, we would all be in awe. “Let’s Dance” is one of the best albums of the...
Musicians who passed away in 2015 Rock’n’roll is here to stay, but more and more musicians leave us every year, as many veterans reach a venerable age although some have lived a...
THE BEST OF 2015 – RREVERB STYLE At RREVERB, we cover all genres of music. From pop to metal, via indie rock, electronic and classical music, we try to highlight the best of music...
What’s hot in JAZZ in 2015? A top 10 list is very hard to do as there is so much more out there to enjoy. I tried to keep it as local as possible, because here in Montreal and...
Melancholia, mood and melody: here’s the BEST OF MY 2015 year At RREVERB, we have the great honor of reading Andre Papanicolaou's thoughts on life, and views on the music business, in the eyes of the...
Epic Orchestration and Electric Blasts of Metal in our TOP METAL ALBUMS of 2015 list Our NYC based collaborator Mick Stingley picks up the 10 best metal albums of the year. Here's why he chose these 10 over all others he heard in the...
JULIE’s top 25 albums and songs of 2015 About a year ago I was writing my first article on RREVERB, it was the same "best of 2015" formula as you are getting now: 25 of my favourite albums...
MOON DUO – Hypnosis under the Stars Have you ever been hypnotized by music? Had the feeling where your brain cannot get out of a musical loop that almost makes you dizzy? That's exactly...
KINSKI, Like There’s No Tomorrow Kinski is a rock band in the true sense of the word. You sense right from the first chord that these guys don’t anything else in life than look for...
ANDREW McANERNEY, choir conductor: “People want to be transported and inspired!” At RREVERB, we think quality music lasts. That it can be listened to for years. This series of interviews with musicians takes the time to focus on...
JOHN CALE reworks “Music For a New Society” M:FANS, a radical new reworking of one of John Cale's most unique and lauded solo records, the 1982 masterpiece Music For A New Society, will be...
