Festival De Musique Emergente

Sadies, Melvins Get Loud At FME 2010

My final day of FME began early, when I was woken up at 7:30 a.m. and discovered I was having an asthma attack. Why? Well, it turns out the people in the room next to me were smoking with their door open. A baby was also running up and down the hall, screaming, "Mama! Dada!" over and over again. I groaned, threw the covers over my head...
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The Sadies

Martha Wainwright, Howe Gelb Bring Humour To FME 2010

"Donny, you're out of your element!" —The Big Lebowski I spent nine years studying French when I was little, and by the time I graduated high school I was bilingual. My French was so good, in fact, that I once fooled a francophone professor at university into thinking I was also francophone. But with little opportunity to use...
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Martha Wainwright

Besnard Lakes Blow The Power At FME 2010

Rouyn-Noranda, Que., which hosts the annual Festival De Musique Émergente, is a small mining city with a population of about 40,000 people about an hour north of Montreal if you fly. This is as far north as I've been in Canada. The flight here was largely uneventful, save for a brief moment of panic at the airport in Montreal to get the...
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The Besnard Lakes
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