Tag: quebecois music recommendations
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: De Temps Antan!
In which Anna lays out for you all the reasons why you should go buy De Temps Antan’s music. Especially the part where they have a brand new album!
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Le Vent du Nord!
Y’all knew THIS one was coming, right? What with the whole “I haven’t been able to shut up about these guys for the last several months” thing? Because yeah, let’s talk Le Vent du Nord. Hands down, uncontested, kings of my favorite Quebecois bands. The guys who are going head to head with Great Big…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Genticorum!
And now we come to the one band of my top seven about whom I had not previously done a recommendations post, an oversight I shall now be correcting with great pleasure. Because, O Internets, it’s now time for me to enthuse about Genticorum! You’ve seen me post about these boys already, how I got…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer!
I said it before and I’ll say it again: goddamn, the gentlemen of Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer can SING. When it comes to hardcore fangirling, okay yeah, I’m flying my fangirl flag VERY high for Genticorum, De Temps Antan, and especially Le Vent du Nord… but musically speaking, the Charbonniers are right up there fighting…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Galant, tu perds ton temps!
Here we have another band who dropped a new album since I put up my original recommendations post about them: Galant, tu perds ton temps! As with previous posts in this series, pretty much everything I said in the first one for the Galant ladies still holds true–with the notable exception that they do have…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: La Bottine Souriante!
As I’ve written before, La Bottine Souriante has the distinction of being the first Quebec band I ever saw perform live, and I said a great deal about them on this post over here. Most of what I had to say there still stands, with some notable exceptions. First and foremost, as of this writing,…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: La Volée d'Castors!
I posted back in 2011 about my recommendations for La Volée d’Castors, who remain one of my top favorite Quebec bands even though they’ve more or less gone inactive. Much of what I said in that previous post still holds true! But since I did that post I did in fact pick up their holiday…
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A guide to Quebec trad for English speakers
Internets, as you all know, I’ve been happily fangirling Quebec traditional music for a couple of years now, and quite a few of you have started to ask me questions about it. And because I like you, Internets, and I want to share with you the musical goodness, I’d like to present for you a…