Taken from the album 'Was I The Wave?' this new single encompasses what Miracle Fortress are all about. Psychedelic synthy-indie-pop would be the best way to describe the style, and although a side project of Graham Van Pelt, his main focus being Think About Life, MF are unique and extraordinary. MF have an experi... Read more..

POP Montreal has finally started! My picks for Friday’s lineup are chalk-full of some highly-esteemed local acts that you really cannot miss. Passovah Showcase @Mission Santa Cruz :: Salle STM |Sept. 23 | 7pm For the Passovah showcase, Miracle Fortress (aka Graham Van Pelt, formerly of Think About Life) is playing a midnight set at [...]

Erinnert ihr euch noch an das Anfang des Jahres erschienene Young Galaxy-Video zu “We Have Everything“? Dafür verantwortlich zeichnete sich damals der Visual Artist Sinbad Richardson aus Montreal, der bereits für kanadische independent Bands wie The Dears, Think About Life, und Plants And Animals Musikvideos gemacht hat. Young Galaxy mochten Richardsons Arbeit so sehr, dass sie [...]

Miracle Fortress, the Montreal synthpop group led by Think About Life’s Graham Van Pelt, has a new video for “Miscalculations,” a twinkling sigh of a song from their Was I The Wave? album. The video collects Hipstamatic-style footage from the band’s recent North American tour, and it’s funny to see present-day stuff made to look [...]

Miracle Fortress is a side project by Graham Van Pelt, keyboardist of Think About Life. Van Pelt hails from Montreal and is touring after the release of his sophomore album Was I the Wave off Secret City Records

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, it’s not likely the Bloody Beetroots are going anywhere anytime soon. With 2009’s electro-classical-punk epic Romborama and a recently released Best of … Remixes (which showcases the prolific Beetroots’ mixes of others’ songs, including The Chemical Brothers’ “Dissolve” and MSTRKRFT’s “Bounce”) under their belts, an ever-evolving live set that’s morphed from a high-energy, two-person DJ set to a full-on frenzy-inducing live band, and exclusive clothing collaborations with designer VendeTTa, the aggro-electro revolutionaries continue to recruit zealous droves into their fan base. Perpetually clad onstage in their signature Venom masks, blurring the lines ...

Bestial Invasion Records 2011 If you've already read Mark's excellent review of Evil Survives new album then you'll know that retro-metal loving bands are popping up everywhere these days. While Evil Survives hail from up north our friends in Atomic Roar call Brazil home. These fun loving thrash and rollers obviously grew up listening to bands like Venom, Motorhead, Discharge, Sodom, Tank, Warfare and G.B.H. It shines through in radiating color. At not even thirty minutes Atomic Freaks (their second album) looks, feels, sounds and tastes like it was made in the mid to late ...

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Secret City Records Think About Life 's Graham Van Pelt has done a complete overhaul on the sound of his other project, Miracle Fortress . On Thursday, building off of his performance at last year's Pop Montreal Music Festival , Van Pelt treated the CMW audience at Lee's Palace in Toronto to an entire set of new songs off of his as-yet-untitled new record, which is due out next month. Van Pelt's set-up certainly has a lot in common with Canadian electro-dance duo Woodhands , with Van Pelt's hypnotic, dreamy guitar riffs taking ...

VENTURA, Calif. — Patagonia Inc., the environmentally minded apparel company, has teamed with some of today's top artists representing a range of genres, to form the Patagonia Music Collective. The Patagonia Music Collective will launch in the United States on Tuesday March 1, 2011 at www.patagonia.com/music . Exclusive tracks will be sold at $.99 each, with net proceeds going directly to the environmental organizations of the artists’ preferencechoosing. Musicians on board thus far include Pearl Jam, Jack Johnson, Bonnie Raitt and Jon Cleary, Maroon 5, Philip Glass, Zac Brown Band, moe., The Bad Plus, Blitzen Trapper, Mason Jennings ...

In 2008, with the UK hip hop scene burgeoning, Kulez was riding the same train from Norwich to London along with fellow rap hopefuls Arkaic and Eurgh, climaxing in his minor underground hit, “Welcome To Africa”.  This Zimbabwean-born MC was making his name heard around the battle scene, competing overseas in Scribble Jam as well as supporting major artists such as R.A. The Ruggedman, Jehst, and even dubstep pioneer Rusko.  However, in 2009, he seemed to fall off the face of the map, not releasing much more than a few myspace freestyles and losing a major-profile battle against American ...

Filed under: News He's sold over 150 million records, hung out with Presley">Elvis Presley and gone through more hurled knickers than a busy launderette but Sir Tom Jones has confessed that he dreads the day that he can no longer sing. The 70-year-old veteran -- whose latest album 'Praise and Blame' is a meditative collection of gospel and blues songs dealing with spirituality and mortality -- was speaking to CBS News when he revealed his fear. "I dread the day. Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that,' he said. "I dread to ...

10/06/10 3:55pm Live Review Date: October 2, 2010 City: Montreal, QC Venue: Various venues Rating: 4 / 5 CHARTattack's Erik Leijon was hitting the clubs hard for Pop Montreal last weekend. Here's his final report from Saturday and Sunday: 5 p.m.: Saturday starts with perhaps the highlight of the festival: Malajube playing an acoustic set on top of the Ubisoft Montreal building. The rooftop has one of the best views of Mount Royal in the distance, so there are as many photogs taking pics of the panorama as they are of the band. 5:20 ...

Valleys , 8 pm @ Ukranian Federation (with Braids and Xiu Xiu ) It may just be reflective of my own tastes and nothing else, but this year's edition of Pop Montreal seems to have concentrated about 90% of its awesomeness in today's shows. Truthfully, you could pick just about anything and stick to it the whole night, and you'd have a pretty good odds of having picked a top-notch show from beginning to end. There's even an insane amount of competition happening in the afternoon : there are three different BBQs happening, and all three have simply incredible line-ups ...

photos by Amanda Hatfield Steven: Thanks for taking time out of the grueling tour schedule to answer a few questions for us. I saw you perform Friday night (a few back) and was curious if you find it disappointing when...

Think About Life are a stellar live act, due in no small part to frontman Martin Cesar’s bouncy stage presence. But what’s even more remarkable is the way they’ve managed to capture that same effervescent energy in the studio, as evidenced by last year’s delightful album “Family”. This Montreal band kindof reminds me of The [...]