Category: Music

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Beirut, picture taken during pop montreal 2006.

One of the most beautiful video i’ve seen lately – made by Montreal artists. Shine on, people! Beware, both the visuals and melody of This Moment are touching. They might bring some tears held back for too long. Available on iTunes.

Story by Moon-Hee for Vu d’ici It’s now been a bit over a month since I’ve changed jobs and I’m already missing all the new music that was being sent to me and other colleagues. The last album I received (just a few weeks ago) was of Brooklyn artist Reid Paley. Anyways… an awesome surprise,… Continue reading Small world we live in…

The title “3 Tage wach” is german and means “3 days awake”. This song is very popular in Germany and Austria right now. I like it too! 3 Tage wach

From the album Volta. See the making of here.

Lac St-Jean from viewfromthemoon on Vimeo.

Since the band The Klaxons started this New Rave (or Nu Rave for insiders) music trend around 2005, there is a growing number of kids who use blogs to push their music remixes and party photos to the web. I am fascinated (do I over-use this word???) by the fact that these kids seem to… Continue reading New Rave kids, blog invaders

Hey, Falco died exactly 10 years ago. He remains – even nowadays – the most famous Austrian pop star, known for the international number one hit “Rock me Amadeus”. But I prefer songs like “Jeanne” and especially “Der Kommisar”, which has a pretty cool beat. “Alles klar, Herr Kommisar? Check it out.

In the line of the great female acts of my generation stands the very talented Chan Marshall, known as Cat Power, who launched a new album this month after publicly coming out of a hard time, recovering from a life of drug and alcohol abuse. Jukebox features covers from Billie Holiday and James Brown, and… Continue reading Cat Power’s Jukebox

I havn’t been hooked to a record since quite long. She’s got it all, my ipod is all hers.

“neurosis, only attaches itself to fertile ground, where it can flourish (…) fear is a powerful drug, overcome it and, you think that you can do, anything! (…) fear of losing energy, is draining it locks up your chest, shuts down the heart, miserly , and stingy, let’s open up : share!” Lyrics from Innocence.… Continue reading Björk Volta

Datarock, played on Vu d’ici podcast #56, this sunday at La Tulipe with CSS, played in Videocast #1!

Après un départ en duo, l’ajout et le retrait de certains membres, des shows avec plus de changement de costume qu’un défilé de mode, des branches de sapin, des alias instables et changeants, un EP garage, de la nudité passagère, des beats qui tue, des pow pow té mort, des paroles incendiaires, des drummeurs aux… Continue reading Musique Locale : Gatineau

that says it all…

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