DJ Ayres This Friday

The Fix at Coda Club will be in the more than capable hands of DJ Ayres this Friday and you won't want to miss it. Ayres is part of the NYC crew that takes care of The Rub compilations and parties, legendary in their own right. Details can be found on the facebook event. If these songs don't convince you to come you're neither man, woman or beast.

DJ Ayres - Mobb Deep - Got It Twisted / Ghostbusters (zshare)


DJ Ayres - Broke Ass Home (zshare)

March Fucking Madness

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This upcoming week is going to leave you, me, her, him and them, universally all fucked up. In a good way. That is, in the span of seven days your feet, eyes and ears will be taken advantage of by five huge dance behemoths. The assault will be opened by parisian electro juggernauts Justice on Sunday at Cepsum, followed by a Justice afterparty at Coda Club with Busy P and So-Me - the Ed Banger visual artist - which looks like it might bring about a line to get in to rival the Steve Aoki / Uffie blowout of early 08' fame. So get there early or you might cry frozen hipster tears.




After Justice bangs you harder, better, faster and stronger than your boyfriend or girlfriend ever could, you get monday to wednesday to recover, but only to prepare you for Chromeo at Le National on Thursday, Digitalism at Club Soda on monday, and MSTRKRFT and Boys Noize at Metropolis on Saturday. What the fuck. Shit will get real serious.




So drink your vitamin water, take extra naps, aggregate prescription drugs and stock up on bulk units of alcohol, because along with St Pattys day, sobriety will become a rarity among Montreal banger kids.

Justice - DVNO [Surkin Remix] (mp3)



Chromeo - Tenderoni [MSTRKRFT Remix] (mp3)



Digitalism - Pogo [Shinichi Osawa Remix] (mp3)



Boys Noize - & down [Siriusmo vs Boys Noize Remix] (mp3)

Big Things Hatchin!

Chocolate eggs are everywhere, and Montreal's Hatchmatik has blessed the interweb with an early spring surprise:

Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin [Hatchmatik remix ft Teki Latex] (mp3)

Working with Teki Latex who drops a bilingual verse, Hatch bangs Chromeo's Bonafied Lovin for the dancefloors. With bilingual verses, a Montreal based remixer and a Montreal/NYC based band, you can be happy getting your civic pride on while you tear up the dancefloor.

Speaking of torn-up dancefloors, the afore-mentioned Hatch will be killing it tonight with the Peer Pressure crew in celebration of A-rock's seventh birthday (check your calendars and do the math) at Coda.

So gird your loins, raise a cup and celebrate the craziest seventh birthday party you've ever been too.

To get you in the mood, we've got A-rock's "Day Of The Rent" below. Turn those PC speakers up to 11.

A-rock - Day of the Rent (mp3)

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On Fool's Gold

A-trak and Nick Catchdub's love child Fools Gold Records is home to Kid Sister, Treasure Fingers and LA RIOTS. If you haven't heard than we feel sorry for you. Aren't you glad you know us?

One of the interesting things about the Fools Gold family is that it literally is....a family. Take a deep breath...Kid Sister is literally half of Flosstradamus's kid sister, as well as A-trak's girlfriend, who's brother is Dave One of Chromeo.

Kanye West - Stronger (A trak remix)



Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Dirty remix)



Treasure Fingers - Cross the Dancefloor

On VNDLSM this Friday

Toronto's VNDLSM hits Coda Club this Friday backed up by Montreal's Hatchmatik and Brendon Duvall and from what I've gathered, they're live show is worth checking out. Not convinced? then stay the fuck home and I'll tell you about it Saturday. One less person to bump into me and spill my drink.



Hostilities aside, Coda will likely be the perfect size venue for a show like this and it should be a good time. Check out some tunes to warm you up:

VNDLSM - Uh Oh! (mp3)

Rihanna - Umberalla [VNDLSM remix] [Diplo RE-remix] (mp3)

On Vampire Weekend

It is Friday and it only felt right to start the weekend with a jaw about these kids from New York City who have been making alot of noise online lately. Vampire Weekend can't help but to remind me of Montreal's very own Islands in their own mellow-dramatic indie rock kind of way.

They're massive North American Tour is glaringly barren of a Montreal Tour date, with love for Toronto and Vancouver. What the fuck? Anyway here are some tunes, find out what your missing and have a Vampire filled Weekend kids.

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (mp3)


Vampire Weekend - Campus (mp3)


Click Read more for chances to have a Vampire Weekend near you:


01-30 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
01-31 San Francisco, CA - Popscene
02-01 San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Records (in-store)
02-04 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records (in-store)
02-06 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
02-07 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
02-08 Williamstown, MA - Williams College Currier Ballroom
02-09 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts
02-11 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
02-13 Cincinnati, OH - The Gypsy Hut
02-14 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
02-15 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum
02-21 London, England - ULU
02-22 Wolverhampton, England - Civic
02-23 Oxford, England - Academy
02-24 Brighton, England - Audio
02-27 Manchester, England - Academy 2
02-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Classic Grand
03-06 Orlando, FL - The Social *
03-07 South Florida Everglades, FL - Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Langerado)
03-08 St. Augustine, FL - Café Eleven *
03-09 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
03-10 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree *
03-12-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-19 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
03-20 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
03-22 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
03-23 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
03-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
03-26 Seattle, WA - Neumos
03-27 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards
03-29 Missoula, MT - Badlander
03-30 Boise, ID - Neurolux
04-01 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
04-25 Indio, CA - Coachella

On The Teenagers @ Studio Just for Laughs

The Teenagers invaded Studio Just for Laughs the eve of January 29, 2008 and as expected were awesome. With everyone singing about cunts and geographically defined fucks; everybody in the audience was a Teenager tuesday night.

In a recent interview with the Montreal Mirror, Dorian Dumont of the Teenagers said straight up that while they aren't "totally unserious" they "don't take it too seriously, you know". Oh yes Dorian, i know.

Suspend your bullshit meter for the moment and indulge me in this theory:

After seeing The Teenagers live, i think the live show did come off as just that - totally unserious - BUT that ended up being the point.

That kind of unrefined half-assery is what makes The Teenagers successful. Their sexed up rhetoric-of-the-fuck-up which has become a mainstay throughout all their songs keeps them instantly relatable and polishes that aura of humbled quasi-fame that they get their cool from. Let's hope the Teenagers stay cool longer than the most people did in high school.

more pictures and commentary to come soon.

Songs from their spanking new LP Reality Check:

The Teenagers - Feeling Better (mp3)


The Teenagers - III (mp3)


The Teenagers - Sunset Beach (mp3)

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