Sep 21, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last night, Montreal-based, French lyric quintet Karkwa won Canada’s Polaris Prize—beating out Owen Pallet, Broken Social Scene and Tegan and Sara for the top honor More

Oct 01, 2010 By Lorraine Carpenter

Like clockwork. With Pop Montreal comes the first of the season’s crap weather, and so the festival’s first full-on day was marred by a massive downpour. I was as happy as the expanding hole in my ceiling as I left the (relative) shelter of home to hit the Pop BBQ, which wasn’t much of a BBQ, having moved from the terrace of Pop’s HQ, Notman House, to Barfly, one of St. Laurent Blvd.’s tiniest, grubbiest dives. Barfly is ace, of course, but would I want to eat there? More