What do popular songs and school supplies have in common? Since mid-August, records have been appearing in backpacks and erasers. Marie-Pierre Arthur couldn’t wait for the new day any longer, so his new record, Blue albumhas been there for a few weeks now: the corresponding show will take place before Christmas. On the ice rink right away, the group With no helmetseizing the opportunity to emerge at the aptly named FME, has already performed on stage his new album entitled Cardinal, outdoing the whole world (including David Gilmour!). The Suuns broke The Breaks the same first Friday in September as the dear bareheads: we have talked about it ad nauseam in these pages.
Hey! No time to lose in these busy times. By the end of September, Leif Vollebekk will have presented Revelation, Alex Henry Foster calculated A Measure of Shape and Sounds, Jay Scott found that All the streets are silent. Edward will have declared on all platforms that The end of the world is not so ugly. The improbable tandem The Twenty-Nines — Julie Lamontagne and Tony Albino in civil proceedings — will have set in motion his BoomBoxfirst of the name. Let us add to the rush of those in a hurry to arrive: the revenant Amylieas well as country singer Cindy Bedard who offers a tandem with the no less returning Patrice Michaud.
In October, open coyote hunting
Amylie, here, is participating, among quite a few others, in the new Shoot the coyotea folk-pop record from a vast territory that smells of good wood on side roads, which is not called Dynasty for nothing: the hunting season starts on October 4. On these traces strongly imprinted in the ground will quickly follow We Are Wolves (Nothing), April Jensen (Is Any of This Real?), Good Child (Special request), Jason Bajada (I don’t miss having the blues), Andre Papanicolaou (Beyond Mountains), Rick and the Good Times (The storm), My Sweet Lord (Sun in the eye). The list is long: let’s add to it Zouz, Samian, The Brooks, Souldia, Sarahmée…Not forgetting the small crowd of the unexpected, the unknown, even the unfamiliar. The season will be teeming with them. Passion Pear ? Indescribable artist and first album. Christian Sean ? An experimental. Frank Pietacho ? The rising Innu of the author’s song. We will also get to know P. SallafranqueTHE Kinkead twins, Folaube, Mia Kellywe forget: this is the lot of bottlenecks. And we will have to Hay Babies. The album Noise is expected on October 4.
Weird as well as strange
Just as eventful — and magical! — in this astonishing season, to say the least, will be the‘Abracadabra of Klo Pelgag. Even stranger will be The Escapees : Éric Goulet and Luc De Larochellière invented from scratch the period group that they never formed, which goes to show that it’s never too late to make a good pretense. In this unusual rush, we absolutely have to mention the album by the aforementioned Maxime AugusteA Esstradinaire Esstradivarius who will transform Sol’s fabulous monologues into songs, with a fine line-up of skewers, including the ineffable Raoul Duguay, the verbose Bori, the talkative Édith Butler, the escapee from Dévadés Luc De Larochellière, etc.
Firsts, tours and twice Émile Proulx-Cloutier (out of three)
It still exists. Montreal premieres. We’ll see the Bibi Clubbriefly but no less enjoyable, just before his tour of the old countries. Florence K will declare Brazil my love from October 8 at the Lion d’Or, and then will take his joy throughout the province. Beyries, The Boulay sisters, Elliott Maginot, Lynda Lemay, Pierre Flynn, Aliocha Schneider, Peter Peter, Isabelle Boulay will be in all our cities, large and small, including the metropolis. And it will go on like this until December, when Daniel Belangerwhich had to postpone its three evenings planned at the MTelus, because it was unfortunately jammed, should delight us. And then above all, above all, there will be Emile Proulx-Cloutierwhich will give My hand in the firehis fresco show, in three acts, burning the boards of the Maison symphonique on November 22 and December 7, then setting everything ablaze in a great final bonfire in February 2025. It is already the hot event of the winter.
The Return of the Beloved
It will be a season full of anniversaries: we are already celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of the first album of Nice pity. Out of nowhere, Michel Lemieux collected the songs cooked in 1984 for his tasty show Solid Salad : an album has just been cooked, just in time for the feast of the 40the birthday. Who else? To Marie-Jo Thério the great halls of Quebec and Montreal for the two decades of The Malinehas Sylvie Paquette And Chloe Sainte-Marie the Claude-Léveillée room at Place des Arts. Following the successful alliances of recent years (a specialty of promoter Martin Leclerc), a show in honor of lyricist Eddy Marnay will bring together at the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal starting September 19 the Joe Bocan, Luce Dufault, Christian Marc Gendron And Marie Denise Pelletier.
Veterans and the Unearthed
It should be noted that groups that are more than veterans of generic rock here, notably The Chicane And Black Silencewill resume service and offer something new. Andre Dede Seller will also be back, mini-album in tow: intractable, our Belgian roommate. It’s possible. Even the missing ones who reappear: Yves Desrosiers has dug up the First Recordings of the great Lhasa of Selaan album of unpublished pieces that will be highlighted by a high-level tribute show; let us mention the participation of Feist, Klô Pelgag, Helena Deland, La Force, Laurence-Anne, the Bibi Club. A unique idea, Keith Kouna and Ken Pavel will join forces with the Francouvertes outside the competition, for the time it takes to sing The Ghouls. THE Dales Hawerchuk also brandish the strongest hockey stick made here: a fifth album is in the game plan. We call that, as Renée Martel sang, loves that don’t want to die.