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24 Jan

Hot music for a cold winter concert guide

What better way to warm your soul in wintry weather than by checking out some of the hottest rock, pop, hip-hop and more – from the likes of Bastille, Blue Rodeo, Green Day and Dinosaur Jr. – at many of Montréal’s most amazing venues? Let the following be your guide to great music and good times in the cool coming months.

Elevation Montréal, January 27 (Bell Centre) EDM fans get their New Year’s prayers answered early when the first edition of Elevation Montréal brings the bass for a massive dance partaaay. Brought to you by the fine minds behind summer dance music fest ÎleSoniq, Elevation will feature headlining house duo DVBBS as well as Australian bass duo Knife Party and U.S. livetronica group Big Gigantic.

Mogwai, January 31 (Théâtre St. Denis) Glaswegian post-rock monsters Mogwai make a rare Montréal appearance in support of their latest release, Atomic, which consists of reworked versions of tunes they composed for the acclaimed 2016 BBC documentary Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise. The soundtrack is said to “encapsulate the nightmare of the nuclear age.” Fun!

Blue Rodeo, February 8 (Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts) It’s always a great day when these legendary country rockers come to town, and so February 8 is shaping up to be a great day. The band that has sold over four million albums in the last 30 years will be playing songs off their 14th studio album, 1,000 Arms in one of the city’s (nay, the country’s) most prestigious soft-seater theatres.

I LOVE THE 90’S TOUR, February 16 (Bell Centre) Who doesn’t love the ’90s? Especially when you get a crazy crew like Salt-N-Pepa, Color Me Badd, Montell Jordan, Rob Base, Young MC and C+C Music Factory together on one stage to relive the bad (and by bad we mean good) old days of hip-hop, RB and pop. Not to be missed.

Maroon 5, February 24 25 (Bell Centre) This is the makeup date (now makeup dates) for a show originally scheduled for September, but postponed due to the birth of frontman Adam Levine’s daughter. The band’s latest album, V, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200, and the single Maps set a record for the highest debut by a group on Top 40 radio charts worldwide in 18 years.

Billy Talent, March 1 (Bell Centre) If raucous punk-influenced rockers Billy Talent weren’t already the best, then how about this: $1 from every ticket sold on their current tour in support of new album Afraid of Heights goes to support MusiCounts, a Canadian non-profit that provides schools with musical instruments.

Sting, March 6 (Metropolis) This presents a very, very rare opportunity to catch the former Police frontman in a venue that doesn’t normally house a professional sports franchise. The 2,400-capacity Metropolis will see Sting playing songs from his first rock/pop album in over a decade, 57th 9th.

Dinosaur Jr., March 9 (Corona Theatre) Since their 2005 reformation, following a solid run of popularity from the mid-’80s through the ’90s, trailblazing Massachusetts alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr. have never looked back. J. Mascis and Co. will be shredding tunes from their 2016 release, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not.

Simple Plan, March 15 (Bell Centre) It would appear that singer Pierre Bouvier’s vocal chords got the doctor-ordered break that they needed and the show, originally planned for last November 23, will indeed go on. Montreal’s pop-punk superstars headline the Bell Centre as part of their rescheduled Taking One for the Team tour.

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The Lumineers, March 18 (Bell Centre) The Lumineers’ (inexplicable) tidal wave of popularity rolls ever onward unabated. Last year’s single Ophelia, from latest album Cleopatra, ranked as the alternative song with the most radio airplay in 2016. Go figure.

Green Day, March 22 (Bell Centre) These 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (whoda thunk!) don’t ever seem to lose a step, as more than evidenced on raging punk rocker Bang Bang from last year’s Revolution Radio full-length. You will doubtless hear it when Green Day thunder into town with openers Against Me!.

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Bastille, March 26 (Bell Centre) And the month of March closes out with an appearance by, according to Rolling Stone, “Brit pop’s new crown princes,” Bastille. And who’s going to argue? The London-born four-piece, kicking off their Wild, Wild World Tour, now measure everything in millions.

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