November 2011
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Maximum Rock n Roll Reviews LET ME SEE THAT OTHER...
MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL ISSUE 342 NOV 2011
V/A - Let Me See That Other Hand: The Now Sound of Montreal -
As the title suggests, this is a tape comp of current Montreal bands, moving from psychedelic other worldly sounds to hipster garage punk (this is a descriptor, not an insult, the JESUSLESFILLES track is great) and featuring one of the best Oi! tracks I’ve ever heard in THE...
October 2011
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September 2011
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R. STEVIE MOORE COMPILATIONS ARE READY!!! LAUNCH...
R. STEVIE MOORE
Vintage Violence Records is proud to present its third release of the year 2011 –and its second on the highly overhyped cassette format- We Wish We Could Sing : A Tribute To R. Stevie Moore!
Compiled by Ralph Elawani (Shortpants Romance / Vintage Violence) with some help from R. Stevie Moore himself, this compilation - co-presented by Pop Montreal- is a pertinent survey of...
August 2011
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We Wish We Could Sing: A Tribute to R. Stevie...
Vintage Violence teams up with Pop Mtl to release a R. Stevie Moore tribute cassette. BANDS OUT THERE, send me cover versions of your fav. R Stevie Moore song(s). vintageviolencerecords@gmail.com PLEASE DO SO WITHIN THE NEXT 3 WEEKS.
Shortpants Romance's 1st video + Pop Montreal +...
Here’s Shortpants Romance’s video for the song LOW END, which can be found on Shotgun Divorce LP.
http://vimeo.com/27266818
Réalisation: SOPHIA BELAHMER Assistant à réalisation: NABI-ALEXANDRE CHARTIER Production: SOPHIA BELAHMER & NABI-ALEXANDRE CHARTIER Direction Photo: SIMON-PIERRE GINGRAS et JERRY PIGEON Direction Artistique: CATHERINE WHITE Montage: JOHAN...
July 2011
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Hear Shortpants Romance's Wyrd Fest Set
Shortpants Romance went on at 8:30, on Monday June 20th.
http://ckut.ca/cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=monday,20:00
Mongrel Zine Interviews Shortpants Romance
Interview with the Shortpants Romance at the Stoneham Lawndart Sex Emporium Valmont: Ok Shortpants..(Knock Knock!Chanted from the Pipes of Simon)…Romance. What came first: Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ?/Interchangeable with Hamburger Helper. Rulph: I say Herpes Simon:I say Whoopi Goldberg Man! Laugh Laugh Valmont: Please tell me the relationship you have with the works of George...
June 2011
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HOUR: WYRD SCIENCE
Wyrd MTL: Wyrd science
by André Péloquin – June 16, 2011 2 comments →
Shortpants Romance will launch the Let Me See That Other Hand: The Now Sound of Montreal tape compilation during Wyrd MTL Photo: Fabien Loszach
Weird Canada’s travelling festival finally makes its way to Montreal
When he first bought the domain name weirdcanada.com in 2009, Edmonton’s Aaron Levin – the website’s...
May 2011
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Le Goudron ... A New Single on Vintage Violence?
Encyclopedine VL aka The Empire State of the Em chord, the Barbarellita of the Mic Stand and the Ike Turner of the Beta 57 (i.e. she beats it ‘till it works fine) is currently recording a version of Brigitte Fontaine’s 1969 single LE GOUDRON with mister Mingo L’Indien. The song will feature space echo’d Silvertone guitar provided by Rulf, as well as male back vocals...
Shortpants Romance to Play NXNE In June!
WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED!
April 2011
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O: ou l'invisible enfant, curated by Ralph Elawani...
Ô: OU L’INVISIBLE ENFANT - EN PRÉSENCE DE RAÔUL DUGUAY / RAÔUL DUGUAY IN PERSON
2011-04-23
Ô: OU L’INVISIBLE ENFANT Raoul Duguay | Canada 1972 | 67min. | VOF
EN PRÉSENCE DE RAÔUL DUGUAY / RAÔUL DUGUAY IN PERSON
Hosted by DR. CLOWN
Saturday April 23 Doors: 7:45pm | Film 8:30pm
Cette perle rare du cinémaque psychotronique québécois, signée Raôul Duguay, n’a été présenté au grand public que...
March 2011
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Shortpants Romance to Play WYRD MTL / Suoni 2011
Wyrd MTL :: Official Announcement!!!
This month, Montreal’s seminal experimental music festival Suoni Per Il Popolo announced a partial lineup for 2011, including the first wave of WYRD MTL. Today, we open the floodgates for a full announcement, including information on the MEGA MERCH BAZAAR.
Much like our daily operation and its Western Canadian festival counterparts, this year’s...
QUEBECTAIME REVIEWS OUR QUEBEC CITY LP LAUNCH...
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Punk velours
23 mars 2011 - Nicolas Lachance
21 h 45. J’arrive près des portes du bar l’Agitée situé au 251, Rue Dorchester, où a lieu le lancement de Shotgun Divorce, premier opus du groupe Shortpants Romance, et ce, dans une indiscrétion totale. À l’extérieur, le son de la guitare et du clavier de Femme Accident explose déjà.
À l’entrée, je croise une amie journaliste, elle est à la...
Fast Forward Weekly (CALGARY) Reviews SHOTGUN...
Revved-up francophone rockers Shortpants Romance recently launched debut LP Shotgun Divorce under the auspices of guitarist Ralph “Rülf” Elawani’s vinyl imprint Vintage Violence. Propelled by buzz-saw riffs, lockstep drums and vocals from spazzy cherub Catherine Vien-Labeaume (in English), it’s an album that makes you want to crush beer cans on your forehead.
...
THE ART OF CASSETTE CULTURE; AN INTERVIEW WITH...
I was recently interviewed by Bangbang for a piece on cassette culture. Here’s the long version (since they could only use two sentences from it…).
Pourquoi ce projet de cassette ? Comment se développera-t-il ? Des noms déjà en tête ? Quand devrait-elle sortir ?
J’ai de bons souvenirs des cassettes que je passais des heures à faire pour mes amis étant adolescent;...
Two Way Monologue Reviews Shortpants Romance's...
Next up was Short Pants Romance at The Silver Dollar. I’m just going to come out and say it: What a terrible band name! I had given their MySpace a quick listen though, and it sounded promising. Turns out you can’t judge a book by its cover I guess, because Short Pants Romance got up and played a blistering set of retro-punk fronted by an adorable female singer who ruled the room in her own...
The Drunken Bashee Demon Woman...
Shortpants Romance, Silver Dollar, 12pm: In person, Shortpants Romance lead singer Catherine Vien-Labeaume is as quiet and demur as they come. But on stage, the Montrealer is transformed into some kind of drunken banshee demon woman. In our experience, she’s liable to soak you in beer and scream in your face with the kind of don’t-give-a-fuck attitude you’d more commonly...
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Comment vous pouvez jouer au défibrillateur...
PAR: Julie Ledoux
9 mars 2011
Je n’ai pas le goût de jouer à la blogueuse engagée/enragée, mais je me dis que parfois, il y a vraiment des situations plates dans la vie…
De petits bars où sont présentés de bons spectacles ferment leurs portes faute de moyens, de petits disquaires indépendants mettent la clé sous la porte et le même genre de situation se produit aussi du côté littéraire,...
Le Blue Sunshine a besoin de votre aide… et...
Après seulement quelques mois d’existence, le Centre Psychotronique de Montréal Blue Sunshine menace de fermer ses portes en juin prochain. Adeptes de western spaghetti, films d’horreur ou films de série B à (très) petits budgets, vous connaissez sans doute ce nouveau lieu de culte situé sur la Main, près de Prince-Arthur. On y présente les jeudi, vendredi et samedi, des films cultes ou...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
Get Your Dick Out of Your Heart and...KEEP THE...
COME TO L’ESCOGRIFFE ON THURSDAY MARCH 10th
for:
Naughty Girls
Shortpants Romance
Genital Hospital
Sonic Avenues
and MORE GREAT YACHT ROCK BANDS PERFORMING A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR BLUE SUNSHINE .
potential guests include:
Kenny Loggins, Hall and Oates, Toto, Duane Allman and many more.
...
February 2011
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Shortpants Romance: THE GREAT ONTARIO TOUR...aka...
MARCH 11th: Shortpants Romance @ The Ritual OTTAWA
MARCH 12th: Shortpants Romance @ The Silver Dollar TORONTO, as part of POP MTL’s CMF Showcase w/ The Peelies, Uncle Bad Touch and USA Out of Vietnam
-IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS DES GENS HEUREUX
Swimming in the main stream... is such a lame...
Just what the fudge is wrong with all this literature (rubbish) about a 3-piece band that has not (yet) invented a new way of tuning a guitar or commited deicide on stage?
Hum, I guess I know…
They’re simply putting bread and butter on the table…and making sure they get a little extra for some baloney.
Anyways, if you don’t know what all this mumbo jumbo is all about,...
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SHORTPANTS ROMANCE IN
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04/02/2011 | 09H06
SHORTPANTS ROMANCE Leur propre label s’appelle Vintage Violence, et Shortpants Romance laisse effectivement quelques bleus un peu partout après écoute : deux garçons, une fille et beaucoup de sueur, des morceaux punk et sexy qui ne dépassent pas les 2 minutes, qui font honte à la mollesse, insultent la logique, détestent les lignes droites,...
January 2011
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Shotgun Divorce LP reviewed by WEIRD CANADA
New Canadiana :: Shortpants Romance – Shotgun Divorce
Shortpants Romance
Shotgun Divorce
(Autoproduit / Vintage Violence)
Montréal, QC
::web/sounds::
De la romance arrangée de Benoit Poirier: On peut faire ben des choses avec le punk tout en gardant ça simple. Un power trio pas de basse. S’il y avait une chose telle que le post-grunge, qu’est-ce que tu ferais avec? Tu lui ferais mal pour...
SHORTPANTS ROMANCE ON LES EBOUEURS DU ROCK MONDAY...
Shortpants Romance will be discussing the state of arts in Bali, the art of turtle petting, the manufacturing of ocarinas in Southern France, joke cracking at posh philanthropic get toghethers and more
8:30pm Eastern Time
CISM 89.3 fm, Montreal
or
http://www.cism.umontreal.ca/show_details.php?sID=25
CANOE.CA: SHORTPANTS ROMANCE
NOUVEL ALBUM COMPLET
Shortpants Romance: Au plus vite!
25-01-2011 | 16h30 Tweet Le jeune trio montréalais Shortpance Romance sortira son album Shotgun Divorce sur sa propre étiquette de disques, Vintage Violence Records, le 1er février.
Deux spectacles de lancement auront lieu pour l’occasion. Le groupe punk garage se produira au Divan...
VOIR: Shortpants Romance
VOIR Montréal, 21 janvier 2010
Shortpants Romance : animosité positive
Julie Ledoux Originaires de Québec, les trois membres de Shortpants Romance roulent sur le punk rock depuis maintenant trois ans et lancent enfin leur premier album, Shotgun Divorce sur leur étiquette maison, Vintage Violence Records.
Le trio développé dans un coin de l’ancien 2 et ½ de Catherine et Ralph tire aussi...
Shortpants Romance in LE VOIR
Mean people wear fur. We are mean and positive about it…whatever
Check out this week’s issue of VOIR: bangbangblog.com/shortpants-romance-animosite-positive/
December 2010
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The Problem with Music
This article originally appeared in Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll Issue #133. Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them...
“J’étais là et honnêtement, j’avais la chienne. Quelques chansons plus tard, la...”
– http://www.danstesoreilles.tv/2010/12/2010-en-50-tracks-50-a-41/