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True to her name, LIGHTS was brilliant last night, bringing a little vocal prowess to the stage at Le Studio. Phosphorescent photos and luminous words to come.

It was a short and sweet homecoming for Melissa Auf der Maur who delivered a half hour set at Metropolis, as part of M for Montreal’s closing event M for Metropolis.Her famed shadowed silhouette emerged in the foreground of pulsating red circles set to an instrumental piece. ...

The stylistic and precocious Barbadian hip-hop megastar Rihanna is unsurprisingly out with a new album, Rated R, another ambitious work that has heads turning for its range of style and earnest song writing. ...

Some say the rock/rap-hip-hop combination that began with Run DMC and Aerosmith over a decade ago, and subsequently mimicked to variable success since, has been revived here with Blakroc’s self-titled debut. ...

The latest vogue of supergroups might be overdone, but Them Crooked Vultures spew heavy rock worth listening to with their self-titled debut. At the cakehole is Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), on ...

Performance eletronica pop at its finest, England’s Imogen Heap laid out her roots and preened her feathers at Le National last night. Fly back for the magical photos and verse.

Toronto-based band Ohbijou dished out some of their diligently composed tunes at Club Lambi recently, demonstrating their maturation as artists and musicians amidst the current release of their second album, Beacons. ...

There’s no manuscript, no template to Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors, led by letter-sweater Dave Longstreth and his magical drones Angel, Amber and Haley. It is a trance inducing buzz of mystified lyrics, and now and then, audible one syllable hums. ...

Prior to things getting way out of hand on stage, with the night yearning for a whole new level of insane, Fucked Up’s Jonah Falco momentarily grabbed the spotlight as cornershopstudios quizzed the deft drummer on highly scientific matters, and some scholarly type topics.

It seems being spawn of a musical upbringing will usually sky rocket one ahead of the herd in terms of creative know-how and onstage prowess, or at the very least a head start. Nothing is truer of Liam ...

The beautifully sustained and imminently powerful music of Do Make Say Think swelled the air at La Sala Rosa last night… moving pics and words in process.