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Can you believe this year’s line-up? From rock legends The Smashing Pumpkins making their much anticipated return to Montreal after a 7 year hiatus, to hometown favourites Patrick Watson, the Sam Roberts Band and Miracle Fortress showcasing the best Montreal’s vibrant music scene has to offer, Osheaga will show the world that this town knows how to rock – indie style!
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Dan and Martina are Dragonette, a duo, but also not a duo (we must mention drummer Joel Stouffer and guitarist Will Stapleton) who make sharp, sardonically witty electronic pop music.
“At first,” they confess, “it was a joke in our basement. At some point, however, they became more serious about being in a band. From the very start, the concept was, in stark contrast to the rest of the Canadian scene during that ‘Nickelback moment‘. The results are dirty, hook-heavy, electropop monsters like “I Get Around” and “Competition”, depicting a world of guilt-free promiscuity and sexual predators on the prowl.
It’s fair to say that Dragonette are not a band who has come up the hard way. Quite the opposite: through a few strokes of fortune, their first public appearances were baptisms of fire in the deep end of mega-concerts. Their second-ever show was supporting New Order at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom, followed by a US tour supporting Duran Duran.
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