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April, 2010

Record Club by Beck

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Record Club: pulled together by Beck and some of his musical buddies.

Massiv Art Chromatic Ticket Giveaway

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Friday, May 14, 2010 - 9:00pm
Le SAT
1195 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

MASSIVart is a non-profit Montreal collective dedicated to promoting young artists. The guys are organizing 'Chromatic' a night of art, music, and good times.

Exit Through The Gift Shop Ticket Giveaway

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 7:00pm
AMC
Montreal, Quebec

Banksy's film Exit Through The Gift Shop is headed our way Montreal! We've got a bunch of tickets to giveaway to the screening May 5th so hit us up NOW!

VBS: Toxic Garbage Island

VBS wraps up Earth Week on Garbage Island.

2010 Logo Design Trends

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Logo Lounge just released their 2010 report on logo design trends. An interesting look at where logos are headed this year ...

Think Stank

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Just came across this rather amusing blog by Josh Millard. He's listed a bunch of random and somewhat hilarious ideas for projects, apps, etc. under the name of Think Stank.

Here are a few favourites:

La Mas Bella

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La Mas Bella (The Most Beautiful) is a Madrid-based 'magazine' which is released once a year since 1993. The 'magazine' is built around a theme and arrives in a box. The guys just released their 2010 issue.

Them-And-Us

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Them-And-Us is an interesting project where contributing artists worked on 20 double-sided posters focusing on the theme of Them-And-Us.

Romeo Romeo ticket giveaway

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Friday, May 14, 2010 - 8:30pm
O Patro Vys
356 Mont-Royal EQuebec

Montreal indie rockers Romeo Romeo are playing next month. They released their first EP last year and have been getting some pretty sweet gigs since - including supporting big wigs Malajube.

Rawspace One and SNAP! Co-Present

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Friday, April 30, 2010 - 7:00pm
Rawspace
4064 St. Laurent Below the SNAP Salon
Montreal, Quebec

Rawspace One and SNAP! co-present: In Between Weddings and Funerals, a group exhibit. Come out and celebrate spring with art, live music and performances.

Free and Cool III

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The guys across at French Fourch have just released the third issue of their free online zine Free and Cool. The theme of this issue is skate boards. Neat.

 

So So Modern: Debut Album 'Crude Futures' Out Now

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So So Modern have been around for a few years now, performing spectacular live shows to growing audiences around Europe and Oceania.

As heard from Mars podcast

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Our DJ buddy William de Samman has just released a new podcast: As heard from Mars. Go and check it now!

Bikini - ACheerlaeder

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We wrote a piece about Montreal duo Bikini back in Issue 3. The guys are resurfacing with a couple of upcoming shows, fingers crossed!

Exit Through The Gift Shop

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Renowned British graffiti artist / social commentator Banksy is slowly showing his film Exit Through The Gift Shop across the States with one date penciled for Canada. If you can get yourself to Toronto May 7th, go catch it there!

LCD Soundsystem coming our way!

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Monday, May 24, 2010 - 7:30pm
Metropolis
59 St. Catherine E
Montreal, Quebec

American punk / electro / dance project LCD Soundsystem is playing Metropolis this May! James Murphy is the man behind the tunes (DJ Death From Above, co-founder of DFA Records) and when playing live, he's backed by 7 musicians! Supposed to be quite the show.

Sooo many good concerts coming up!

Wolf Parade playing Mtl

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Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 8:00pm
Le National
1220 St. Catherine E
Montreal, Quebec

Wolf Parade are playing Mtl this summer! Woah woah woah!

They're playing both the 8th and the 9th but get in early and nab those tickets! $23.

Phoenix meets the Brat Pack

This is a pretty cool mash-up of Brat Pack clips to 'Lisztomania' by Phoenix. If I had more spare time, I'd do cool things like this.

Ikea makes over a metro

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Interesting little campaign by Ikea where they decorated the interior of a Paris metro station. Come to Montreal y'all! I wanna recline on a sofa in the Mont-Royal station.

One liners

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Some quality one-liners for a bit of a cheeky wee chuckle.

- "My New Years resolution is to stop saying 'You go girl' to myself."

- I was at an ATM and this old lady asked me to help check her balance. So I pushed her over.

Pyjama People

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In preparations for the Shanghai World Expo this year, the Chinese Government is apparently urging its people to stop wearing their pyjamas out and about. Justin Guariglia shot this series on the pyjama-wearing Shanghaians.

Believe

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Believe! C'mon, you know you want to ;)

Oh, and in case you weren't sure, it's a Tyrannominounitauricornosaurus.

From here.

Ugliest Tattoos

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Ugliest tattoos: the gallery of regrets - ha ha ha! If you've got a good one to share, let us know!

 

 

True Blood

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Nice little campaign for everyone's favourite show True Blood. Season 3 coming June 13 ...

 

Stop Honking

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I think I need one of these. Don't drivers understand that being on a bike gives us the right to run red lights, switch between the side walk and the road, and be a bit of a hooligan? Designed by My Orange Box  and a bargain at $15. 

Watch me

Song of the day ...  by these guys.

 

Blue Dog 2 year anniversary party!

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Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 9:00pm
Blue Dog
3958 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

Grilled Cheese Thursdays and Three Monkeys present 2+6=8, a joint birthday celebration! Blue Dog celebrates their 2nd year anniversary while Three Monkeys celebrate 6 years of business.

Rover Arts Fair

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Friday, April 16, 2010 - 7:00pm
Salon D'Art
5145 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

Art for Art's Sake - don't miss this awesome group show! There will be over 50 works on exhibit from 11 artists, starting from $75.

Entry by donation buys you cheap drinks with goodies up for grabs including $100 worth of chocolate, books, CDs and more!

Frenche ou Meurs

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Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 10:00pm
Belmont
4483 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

Frenche ou Meurs is back for another night of young love, revelery, and good tunes!

Simon Leveille Portraits at Armatta

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Friday, April 23, 2010 - 5:30pm
Galerie Armatta
5283A Parc
Montreal, Quebec

Montreal artist Simon Leveille is set to exhibit at Armatta. He's best known for his amazing illustration and design of the flyers of many local DJs and events. Simon will be presenting original prints so be sure to get in early and build that art collection!

 

Cool advertising campaigns

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Catching up on some of the sites I follow ... here are some interesting campaigns from Ads of the World. Kewl.

 

- Clothes like new

 

Happy Easter!

We really need to make a Montreal-themed rival.

Brandkarma

Mission: ‘to help everyone make better brand choices and influence brand behavior for good’. Make the world better, one brand at a time.

Summer!

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It's summer kids! This weekend is supposed to be 25c in Montreal so if you're sitting in front of a computer reading this, get the hell out of there and onto a terrace!

I pinched this photo from Andreas Sundgren. He's good.