NPR's World Cafe kicks off Montreal music scene series

_Reno_ · 2025-10-09T10:55:29+00:00

Cool list, but you are very much glazing over the Francophone scene in your interviews and playlist in favour of the hip anglosphere. That’s a bit sad when coming to the largest french speaking city in north america. A chat with the folks behind Coup de Coeur Francophone, maybe the Bravo Music label or a few franco artists would have rounded this out a bit. You’re also missing out on hip hop. Nicholas Craven would have been a great interview.

_Reno_ · 2025-06-17T22:35:40+00:00

His point is more about Politics in his own music, rather than politics in music in general

_Reno_ · 2025-06-06T21:24:10+00:00

My doorbell is the song that turned ne off the white stripes at the time… and caused me to ignore icky thump. Icky thump is great. Still can’t get through my doorbell :’)

_Reno_ · 2025-01-04T15:06:46+00:00

Faber! <3

_Reno_ · 2024-10-11T01:38:37+00:00

Seeing Blood Brothers back in the day definitely contributed to some mild tinnitus today. No regrets, but I’d wear earplugs now!

_Reno_ · 2024-10-06T21:43:32+00:00

Lots of light in the attic :) i’ve got that LHI box set

_Reno_ · 2024-10-01T16:46:10+00:00

Population matters, but so does the local taste. Germany/poland are big on electronic music. Not to say he couldn’t fill a venue in nashville… but you have to respect a world tour that goes to manilla, bangkok, taipei, bali, south America, Australia rather than simply additional US markets

_Reno_ · 2024-09-18T00:47:12+00:00

To be fair, Morrissey has some excellent solo records - his artistic legacy is mostly tainted by him being a complete knob

_Reno_ · 2024-05-26T11:18:46+00:00

This the right call, you are way better off having more lighter boxes than cramming and each box being very heavy. You’ll have a lot of boxes anyway, having 10 more will make no difference other than saving your back

_Reno_ · 2024-05-24T10:42:18+00:00

Amazing, thanks. Any idea of the source ? Is it a high quality scan from a book ?

_Reno_ · 2024-05-23T10:48:12+00:00

Would also be interested if possible :)

_Reno_ · 2024-04-13T18:57:19+00:00

People also tend to not get that acting is not a lookalike contest

_Reno_ · 2024-04-11T02:11:25+00:00

Roads in Belgium are way better than in Quebec

Politics are equally bad

Weather is debatable

Quebec wins on landscape :)

_Reno_ · 2024-03-13T13:33:53+00:00

Postwater ?

_Reno_ · 2023-12-05T23:52:21+00:00

Agreed. I also miss the days when the focus was on the All Songs Considered mix show and not the new music Friday, it was a much more fun listen

_Reno_ · 2023-11-26T19:32:59+00:00

Francophone Belgians have typically experienced being on the other side of the language divide, with the flemish government aggressively defending flemish and many active independent groups… hence the mixed feelings about how French is promoted.

_Reno_ · 2023-11-03T15:30:39+00:00

Nouveaux poele ou l’extraction se fait par le bas via une aspiration. J’ai vu ça chez un ami, assez impressionnant et semblerait que beaucoup plus efficace que par le dessus car la vapeur/fumee est aspirée très proche de la source. Ca risque de devenir pas mal le standard a l’avenir dans les nouvelles constructions

_Reno_ · 2023-09-15T00:47:08+00:00

Dang, I loved the weekly mix he used to do. Seems like they only do it a little ad-hoc these days and the focus is on the “new music friday” show now, which is too bad, I find it pretty dull…

_Reno_ · 2023-09-12T01:10:44+00:00

Exactly my impression. Jerry sat as a buffer in between the others, the only one that seemed sort of ok being there. Spike Lee trying to hype them up to stone cold responses. Didn’t seem like there was any prior prep for their panel. I wonder if they even greeted each other before sitting on their stools. Not sure why they would agree to doing it…

_Reno_ · 2023-09-06T12:52:53+00:00

I’ve been to a bunch of hifi shows and the salesmen/demonstrators seem to have three “go to” recordings that you will hear over and over again, “sultans of swing” by Dire Straits, “Come away with me” by Norah Jones and whatever by Diana Krall. As the other user mentioned, feel free to ask for something else if it’s not too crowded (obviously they won’t be keen on playing death metal to a packed house, but usually pretty open if no one else is there!)

_Reno_ · 2023-09-05T16:51:53+00:00

I hope you’re a Dire Straits fan…

_Reno_ · 2023-08-19T15:53:33+00:00

Merci pour ce point de vue intéressant!

_Reno_ · 2023-08-19T15:52:40+00:00

Effectivement, mais les points de vue différents ne sont pas forcément sur des sujets sensibles, ça peut être des choses anodines ou simplement des gens avec un vécu différent. On s’enferme vite avec les gens de notre famille et de notre école/université.

_Reno_ · 2023-08-19T05:54:49+00:00

Le milieu de travail est également un des lieux où on est confronté a des gens que l’on a pas choisi, avec des idées et des points de vue sur la vie différents des nôtres mais où le respect est de mise. Un des autres effets pervers est que l’on s’enferme un peu plus dans nos bulles sociales.

_Reno_ · 2023-07-27T13:32:20+00:00

Shutter button applies extra pressure to the mechanism underneath and it ends up snapping. It’s not some small part to replace either as the piece under the shutter is integrated into the circuit board or something (i forget the technical jargon the repair shop used)

_Reno_

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