Cultural revival | While waiting to see them… listen to them!

It is finally possible to walk through the doors of our halls and theaters. To tickle you a little, here are some songs by artists who will be performing in Quebec in the coming months.

Sweet/I Thought You Wanted to Dance, by Tyler, The Creator

All the musical genres that Tyler, The Creator has brought together on his latest album, call me If You Get Lost, form an ideal material for a highly entertaining show, where hip-hop, soul and jazz meet. Tyler Baudelaire, recent alter ego of the American rapper and singer, will certainly not miss the opportunity to create on tour a universe as offbeat and hard-hitting as the one he presents to us on record. Kali Uchis, Vince Staples and Teezo Touchdown are to open for this highly anticipated concert. At Place Bell, March 9.

Marissa Groguhe, The Press

Borderline (Blood Orange Remix)by Tame Impala

Two years after the excellent The Slow Rush, released at the worst time for touring prospects, that is to say in February 2020, Tame Impala will finally be in Quebec at the very end of winter to present his latest album. We may be entitled, in concert, to remixed versions of certain songs, while the Australian group will release an album on Friday with three unreleased songs and five new versions of songs taken from The Slow Rush. At Place Bell on March 10.

Marissa Groguhe, The Press

Chismitenby Mdou Moctar

Because his parents could not afford to give him a guitar, Mdou Moctar made one from old wood and brake cables from a bicycle. He is now nicknamed the Hendrix of the Sahara. The sixth album of the Tuareg gunner, Africa victim, is to be stored in the intersection of a Venn diagram which would unite Tinariwen and Van Halen. With Parquet Courts on March 18 at the Corona Theater.

Dominic Tardif, The Press

Lipstick on the Glassby Wolf Alice

The group of the year at the recent Brit Awards will be in Montreal in just over a month. The English quartet led by Ellie Rowsell had already trod the North American boards in the fall, but it had been content to visit a handful of major American cities. This time, the Montreal public will have the opportunity to appreciate on stage the plays of Blue Weekendanother remarkable collection of songs that ended up in the final of the prestigious Mercury Prizes – the band won the award in 2018 with their previous album, Visions of a Life. At the Corona Theater on March 28.

Pierre-Marc Durivage, The Press

circle the drainby Soccer Mommy

Soccer Mommy is Sophie Allison’s project. She was born in 1997 and grew up in Nashville. However, her music falsely suggests that she was a Seattle teenager in the 1990s. Her grungy pop is bitingly melancholy with distortion where it counts. Soccer Mommy will perform at l’Astral on March 30 with Peel Dream Magazine as opening act.

Emilie Cote, The Press

Ahoritafrom Clay and Friends

Clay and Friends gave a glimpse of his sense of groove to Star Academy on February 15th. The group from Verdun makes sunny music, with the objective of doing good. Two things that sound good in these stretching pandemic times. Clay and Friends, which released a “microalbum” in the fall entitled Aguawill be at the MTelus on 1^er April.

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press

Sexyby Gab Paquet

Celebrating Valentine’s Day in April? With Gab Paquet, the idea is nothing out of the ordinary. For the owner of the most alluring Longueuil cup in the province, every day, and especially every night, is a new occasion to celebrate love. His tour Seduce to survive announces itself as a debauchery of lascivious grooves, an orgy of libidinous refrains, a feast for the ears and the eyes. April 13 at Club Soda.

Dominic Tardif, The Press

The lovers of Pompeiiby Thierry Larose

Thierry Larose was supposed to take the Club Soda stage in February, but it’s finally on April 14 that he will do his biggest show ever, more than a year after the release of his album. Cantalou. It’s not for nothing that he has won awards for The lovers of Pompeii. It’s a great tune with a disarming chorus. In fact, all of Cantalou’s songs are the happy sum of Larose’s influences (indie pop, grunge and shoegaze rock).

Emilie Cote, The Press

Fear of the Dawnby Jack White

Age does not soften Jack White. Fear of the Dawn, title track of an album to be released on April 8, is a piece of nervous rock, saturated with supersonic effects, but as raw as in the days of White Stripes. It’s short – two short minutes – and direct. On April 16, a week after the release of this third solo album, Jack White will be at Place Bell.

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press

Pushing the TidesMastodon and Heart in Handfrom Opeth

It’s in Laval that the two heavyweights of progressive metal are back in action, after a first fall leg of their North American tour. Mastodon will present itself to the Quebec public with a brand new album in its pocket, the excellent Hushed and Grim launched at the end of October. Sweden’s Opeth meanwhile return to Montreal for the second time since the release ofIn Cauda Venenum – the band had played at MTelus less than a month before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Americans Khemmis provide the first part. At Place Bell, April 21.

Pierre-Marc Durivage, The Press

Stranger, Shout

CRi launched Juveline, his first official album, in September 2020. A year later, he won the Newcomer of the Year award at the ADISQ Gala. To tell you that Christophe Dubé must be eager to get “his” Montreal crowd dancing at the Society for Arts and Technology on May 6. The show has been repeatedly postponed. Fortunately, CRi was able to perform extensively abroad with his electronic music as exhilarating as it is accessible.

Emilie Cote, The Press

Scratchcard Lanyardfrom Dry Cleaning

Love post-punk but can’t stand the barking of all those angry young men who always seem to have had a few too many stouts? With her voice of intoxicating monotony, Florence Shaw, of the English group Dry Cleaning, delivers texts inspired by her daily life, which would be boringly banal if they were not so magnificently surreal. May 13 at the Fairmount Theatre.

Dominic Tardif, The Press

Lavender Fieldsby Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

The great Nick Cave is at Place des Arts for two (yes, two!) evenings, on April 2 and 3. If he is not accompanied by all the Bad Seeds, his lifelong sidekick, Warren Ellis, will be at his side. On the menu: songs from the albums Carnage – above all – and Ghosteen. A maelstrom of emotions awaits the spectators present in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier.

Philippe Beauchemin, The Press