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Madonna Triumphs at Super Bowl With Montreal Showbiz Savvy
She was hot. Madonna rocked the stadium in Indianapolis tonight, arriving like Liz Taylor as Cleopatra, launching into one of the flashiest acts I’ve ever seen anywhere. At the end she went...
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Back in the saddle with rock legend and Mississippi rolling stone Nanette...
Nanette Workman still rocks (Photo by JC Lussier, courtesy Nanette Workman) “I’m not a name-dropper,” warns famed Montreal singer Nanette Workman who has pretty much met or recorded with, well,...
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Showbiz legends Donald K. Donald and Terry Flood receive 2012 MMF Canada...
Canadian music industry pioneers Donald Tarlton and Terry Flood, pictured here in 1997 Legendary Montreal impresario Donald Tarlton – a.k.a. Donald K. Donald – got into the rock promotion business by...
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Brian, Where Art Thou Now?
“He is not dead, “He doth not sleep “He hath awakened from the dream of life… “ – Shelley I was reminded of Shelley’s words recently when local radio station CHOM played a clip from a Rolling Stones...
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Rolling Stones 101: random thoughts and suggested readings for the golden...
Pussy Riot’s imprisonment for being critical of their country’s leader has thrown pretty much the whole history of rock’n’roll “rebellion” into a new light. Suddenly all the supposedly citadel-storming...
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DVD review: Muddy Waters/ The Rolling Stones/ Checkerboard Lounge/ Live...
The Rolling Stones were in mid-tour in 1981 when they decided to slip down to Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge, on Chicago’s South Side, to catch Muddy Waters. Waters meant everything to the Stones, who...
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Film Review: Crossfire Hurricane, featuring the Rolling Stones
It was never going to be possible to properly tell the story of the Rolling Stones in an hour and 50 minutes, so it’s no surprise that Crossfire Hurricane fails to come close. The documentary, directed...
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The Rolling Stones announce nine dates: Sorry, Montreal and Quebec City …
Photo courtesy of rollingstones.com Rolling Stones fans can always hope, but Quebec City and Montreal were not among the nine concert dates on the 50 and Counting tour announced this morning (April 3)...
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It’s the Stones man
The Rolling Stones at the Bell Centre in 2006. Gazette photo by John Mahoney. The Rolling Stones. Remember those old geezers? Well they’re coming to town, June 9, Grand Prix day, which makes perfect...
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Concert review: The Rolling Stones at the Bell Centre; June 9, 2013
Photo of the Rolling Stones (left to right: Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts) and (below) Win Butler and Mick Jagger by Justin Tang/ The Gazette. Click here to see Justin’s...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Porn Flakes pay tribute to the...
Photo courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival Maybe there’s a future in bringing more tribute bands to the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Porn Flakes (by the way, there might be...
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Scalpers mar “secret” Arcade Fire shows in Brooklyn
Two marketing masters, Win Butler and Mick Jagger, at the Bell Centre on June 9, 2013. (Justin Tang / THE GAZETTE) My favourite local band – didn’t someone call them The Beatles of Mile End? – play two...
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The Story So Far: Champlain chaos begins; Jagger to be great-granddad
Hello and welcome to The Story So Far for Monday, Nov. 25. Click on the grey icon below to hear the rundown on the stories we’re following for you today. And remember, you can listen to all of our...
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Doug Camilli: El Bulli chef Adrià re-enters the fine-dining circus
MONTREAL — Ferran Adrià, the Spanish chef/chemist responsible for the “deconstructivist cooking” fad (others call his cuisine “molecular gastronomy”), is at it again. Eater.com reports that Adrià —...
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Letter: Unanswered questions from the Charbonneau Commission hearings
As the Charbonneau Commission has drawn to a close, it has dealt with one of the darkest periods in Quebec politics. While there are many honest politicians and bureaucrats in Quebec, the commission...
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Doug Camilli: Now she decides: Dakota Johnson leery of fame
Dakota Johnson, on the circuit plugging this Fifty Shades of Grey movie, tells the Telegraph’s magazine Stella that she’s still not sure being in it was a good idea: “There is something very scary...
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FNC: Robert Frank saw the Stones roll downhill
Robert Frank is famous in the arts world for a number of things, notably the legendary Beat Generation film Pull My Daisy and the acclaimed 1958 photography book The Americans. Pull My Daisy, a strange...
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Doug Camilli: Eddie Redmayne put his iPhone addiction on hold
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne abandoned his iPhone last year. “I tried switching back to a simple, old-fashioned handset,” he tells the Independent, as “a reaction against being glued permanently to my...
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Better Call Saul, Season 2: 'Stakes are a lot higher,' Michael Mando says
Sacrilege though it may sound, I must confess that I prefer Better Call Saul to Breaking Bad. Of course, this is just based on the first 10-episode season of Better Call Saul and two already-viewed...
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In or Out? Spin the Season 1 finale of Vinyl or dance on the mountain
Wondering what to do tonight? In or Out is the daily answer to that question from Gazette music contributor Erik Leijon and writer/editor Denise Duguay. Go out: Record Store Day was yesterday — does...
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