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All of life fits some pattern; there is no such thing as a random event. Zoom out far enough and you will see that what we perceive as chaos or chance is in fact divine design.
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It is counterintuitive for the underground press — a publication like NicheMTL — to attempt to shed light on underground artists as well as itself via these technical means while remaining underground.
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“Having transformative experiences along with people who are working towards making change is a real thing. It’s not just entertainment.”
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The necessity of violence is the definitive subject at the heart of every revolution.
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“When you don’t have money, everything is money.”
To understand how location shapes creative practice and artistic possibility, our newest contributor Anya Leibovitch spoke with working artists in New York and Montreal, two of North America’s most culturally vibrant cities.
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The experiences in life that teach us the most are those we would have never chosen for ourselves.
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“I feel like it’s a city that is open to the world. And I think that reflects in the Orchestra.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with Marianne Perron who speaks with us about the OSM’s 2025-‘26 season, which launches with “The Damnation of Faust” tonight at Maison Symphonique.
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Not only do we never step in the same river twice; each time, the river fails to recognize our feet.
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“We’re pretty lucky in Montreal to be able to bond over something that at its core is done from an authentic place.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with Susil Sharma of Karma Glider, whose latest album, “From the Haze of a Revved Up Youth” launches this Friday at Casa del popolo.
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“There is no moment when I am not doing art.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with Tomas Dessureault who speaks with us about the criteria for good art, being inspired by musicians more than painters, and preparing for his upcoming solo show at Galerie POPOP.
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If we are to read any era by its music, then surely conflict and chaos must characterize the present one.
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“I don’t tend to look to art for escape.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with @markmolnar.bsky.social whose most recent album, EXO, combines chamber music with shades of drone, holy minimalism, doom, ambient, and musique concrete that ultimately transcends these genre prescriptions.
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“Montreal diners are the best and most educated diners in the world.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with the crew at Nora Gray, who speak with us about the changing Montreal dining scene and what it takes to operate one of Canada’s best restaurants.
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There has always been a sense that products of Canadian culture were only praiseworthy if an international audience approved of them.
Read the most recent Play Recent, featuring a response to the Globe & Mail’s 101 essential Canadian albums list, and ten comparitively niche additions.
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Wisdom like fruit seems to arrive frustratingly in abundance or not at all.
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“The initial idea was to involve different people for every record, for it to be like this orchestra thing. And then Covid happened, and it became the two of us.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with Orchestroll, who speak with us about the making of their latest magum opus, Corossiv.
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Time waits for no one. There is no escape within time or without it.
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Burning a stack of money might indeed be the highest art.
And writing might be the lowest. Not to denigrate my own kind. But unlike playing a musical instrument, or making a film, almost everyone can write. Doing writing artfully is the trick.
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Some people believe that we see what we’re looking for. This suggests that the world always meets our expectations.
Read the most recent edition of Play Recent, with notes on time, power, perception, and deliberation.
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“Art changes my life. It changes the way I think. It brings joy, unpredictability, a reason to live.”
Read the MicheMTL interview with Milly A. Dery, Fonderie Darling’s director, about stepping into her new role at one of Montreal’s most respected art institutions, and what comes next.
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It doesn’t matter whether these are good times or bad times or in between times. They won’t last.
Read the June edition of Play Recent, with notes on discomfort, conflict, and the ephemerality of it all.
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“The most important thing is the human relationship.”
Read the NicheMTL interview with Eli Kerr, whose eponymous gallery on St. Laurent is attuned to something in the zeitgeist of this precise place and time.
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The most dependable way to induce a Dark Age is to manufacture amnesia.
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To Canadians, it appears appalling that American centres for higher learning might be punished, or purged, because of their political leanings. But it is obviously happening domestically, too.
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“There is more beauty than there is ugliness. And even in the ugliness there is beauty.”
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“Multi-” is Montreal’s proper operative prefix and as such, we are uniquely positioned to come together over a lack of social cohesion.
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