All About Jazz — The Greatest Rocksteady Event Ever Seen! The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is thrilled to invite fans to the Grande soire XM Radio Satellite, a free outdoor Rocksteady megaconcert live from the General Motors stage on Tuesday, July 7, 9... more info

Rawkblog — Explosions in the Sky / All photos by Cayla McCrae We’ve seen of Montreal and Girl Talk’s sets from last weekend’s Sasquatch! Music Festival at Washington’s epic Gorge. Below, the best of the rest — Explosions in the Sky, Nine Inch Nails, P... more info

JamBase — SEA WOLF BURROWS IN OMAHA TO BEGIN WORK ON FOLLOW UP TO LEAVES IN THE RIVER SOPHOMORE LP DUE SEPTEMBER ON DANGERBIRD RECORDS Sea Wolf The debut album from Sea Wolf, Leaves in the River (Dangerbird Records), introduced the world to Alex Brown Chu... more info

JamBase — Words by: Jennifer Minsky | Images by: Mitch Manzella of Montreal :: 04.22.09 :: The Trocadero :: Philadelphia, PA of Montreal :: 04.22.09 :: Philly Go see of Montreal. Even if you have to travel an hour (gas prices have definitely decreased), f... more info

Stereogum — of Montreal work harder than you. With more ideas than some bands have in a career stuffed into Hissing Fauna..., Skeletal Lamping, and their dazzling live shows, it would be OK for oM to set aside the instruments for a minute. Of course that is n... more info

Said the Gramophone — Professor Longhair - "Go to the Mardi Gras". Headed to Louisiana today. No joke. Imagining bayou, white clouds, tufted cotton fields. I don't think there are cotton fields in Louisiana but I can't help my brain. Women will bring me big plates of fo... more info

JamBase — FREAKIN' IT LARGE IN PORTLAND Here's a scintillating bit of a nearly half hour concert video of intoxicated new age disco glory from of Montreal captured November 20, 2008 at the Roseland Theater. Please to enjoy… Watch the full concert ... more info

Music is Art — In 2007, of Montreal released the psychedelic pop album Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? to critical acclaim for its intricate layers that hid melodies in unexpected corners. This makes album session outtake “Miss Blonde, Your Papa Is Fail... more info

guardian.co.ukRichardson Flown to New York With Ski InjuriesNew York TimesBy PATRICK HEALY and IAN AUSTEN The Tony-award winning actress Natasha Richardson was flown from Canada to New York City on Tuesday afternoon in serious condition with head inj... more info

Dlisted — Friends of Natasha Richardson have told the New York Post that she is brain dead after falling in a tragic ski accident at at the Mont Tremblant resort outside of Montreal yesterday. This hasn't been confirmed by her or Liam's reps, so I�... more info