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Of the many music tastemakers to lavish praise on meteorically rising Montreal rapper Backxwash in 2020, the shout-out she might be most personally excited about came from Metal Hammer. The venerable UK rock publication, normally known for keeping track of what the titans of rock are up to, called Ashanti Mutinta one of “modern rap’s […]
It’s pretty evident Montreal-via-Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec rapper Zach Zoya is ready to take the rest of Canada by storm, because why else would he call his new blistering summer anthem “Slurpee” instead of naming the frozen treat by its more localized Quebec moniker, slush? (Or if you’re aligned with genericized Couche-Tard branding: sloche.) In the midst […]
Montreal rapper Narcy may have made his latest album, Love & Chaos, over a five-week period during the pandemic, but this spiritual continuation of his 2018 SpaceTime isn’t specifically about the pandemic. “I didn’t want to make a pandemic album,” Narcy said. “It’s about the macro and micro of life. It’s about the now, but […]
The world sucks, so eat a fried chicken sammy about it. When your political leader does something stupid or racist, or when a deadly new virus threatens to claim thousands of lives and cancel your autumn concert plans, or when you’re just too bored in the house, it’s normal to want to assuage feelings of despair with […]
Montreal’s current bumper crop of music talent has been sprinkling the city’s magic dust on some of the biggest releases on Earth. So far, they’ve been making waves in terms of production credits, but that’s starting to change. Whether it’s DRTWRK on Kanye’s “Use This Gospel,” Demy & Clipz producing Bad Bunny’s “Soliá,” Alexander (Alex A.C.) […]
In Quebec, everybody “fouettes.” High school kids fouette. Athletes fouette. Influencers fouette. People get tattoos saying fouette. Few, if any of them, have ever actually done it. In French, fouette means to whip, but thanks to Laval rapper Tizzo and his ubiquitous 2018 single “On Fouette,” the expression has taken on a life of its […]
Montreal authorities are investigating a now-viral video that shows a white man verbally harassing an Arabic-speaking woman and her child. The incident occurred in Ahuntsic-Cartierville on Tuesday afternoon, as the woman was walking her two-year-old daughter home from daycare. Cell phone footage shows the man uttering lewd and racist statements to the mother in French, as the child is […]
