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Three Cheers for Duality: A Playlist

By Michael Saba on 7:00 AM on March 20, 2010

Life is never really just black and white, but sometimes your day-to-day feels like it’s spent being buffeted between extremes. Case in point, SXSW this week—an exercise in maximum exhilaration tempered by maximum stress. Which is why the following playlist, in honor of polar opposites, has made for pretty great walking-around-Austin music....  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

Malajube Eyes Polaris Prize, Short U.S. Tour

By Michael Saba on 8:40 AM on July 15, 2009

Malajube is quickly assuming the throne of Montréalian band of note. (Sorry, Arcade Fire, that's what you get for disappearing for two and a half years.) Their stellar third album Labyrinthes has just earned the band their second nomination for the Polaris Music Prize (the only french-language album on the shortlist, to boot), and is being prepped for worldwide release on July 21 via Dare to Care Records....  read more

Found in: Music, News

Short List of Canada's Polaris Music Prize Nominees Revealed

By Ani Vrabel on 11:42 AM on July 9, 2009

Not too long ago, we revealed to you the prestigious Long List of nominees for this year's Polaris Music Prize, Canada's top nod to indie musicians. And Tuesday, the even-more-prestigious, whittled-down Short List was revealed.  ...  read more

Found in: Music, News

Malajube: Labyrinthes

By Michael Saba on 8:59 AM on February 25, 2009

Not too long ago, Quebeçois cred was a reliable guarantee for...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Malajube unveils "Porté Disparu" video for Labyrinthes

By Michael Saba on 3:18 PM on February 11, 2009

There used to be a time when having a band from Montreal was an instant guarantee for at least three months of positive blog press (that honor now belongs to Baltimore, with the stipulation that they have at least one toy keyboard in their repertoire.) Fortunately for the Francophile contingent, nothing will stop Malajube from delivering Quebec's finest progressive-indie-emo-jams (their words.) The band is preparing for the release of Labyrinthes, the follow-up to its breakout 2006 album Trompe L'Oeil....  read more

Found in: Music, News