When thinking outside the box just isn't enough
WTSP, the World Truth Speakers Posse, officially launched with two shows in Montreal on two different nights. Thursday was the Mic Chek open mic show at Le Bull, followed of course by an open jam and Friday saw PsynLangwage’s David Destroya, Jay Manafest and Lucky Lex take the stage at the Hip-Hop Cafe on Parc. […]
Socially and politically conscious Montreal rapper Jay Manafest has released a new video for his song Gas Lands. The song is a lyrical attack on the Harper regime working for big oil and suppressing legitimate protest. The video contains powerful images of environmental destruction, police attacks and resistance. It is also raising money for the […]
With just a few hours left in 2013, the results are in! As we’ve done for the past few years, we asked our writers and editors to vote on their favourite posts of the year, both those they wrote themselves and those written by others. Then we tallied up the votes and factored in things […]
Not many shows have a video trailer. Then again not many shows feature four bands, three floors, a midnight door time and only $5 cover (or free if you’re in costume). Barton Fink, Slut Drive, Hiroshima Shadows and Heat are putting on such a show tonight at Theatre St-Catherine and DJ Unga follows up their […]
Station 16, the Montreal art gallery specializing in street art and graffiti, fell victim to an art heist that happened over the weekend. The gallery’s creative director broke the news in a blog post on the Station 16 website, saying that over $50 000 worth of original artwork, prints and computer equipment was taken from […]
* Please note: If you don’t have your 2013 Halloween costume together yet, please feel free to participate with a photo of a previous costume Two questions: 1. What’s your Halloween costume this year? 2. What are your plans for Halloween this year? If you answer the first question by sending us a picture, we’ll […]
The following is an excerpt from a featured interview with mayoral candidate and Projet Montreal leader Richard Bergeron by FTB contributor Taylor Noakes which you can expect to see in full next week. Given that Bergeron’s interview with Radio X this past Saturday raised many eyebrows on the left, we are releasing his responses to […]
One of the heaviest music festivals in North America happened last weekend. Mike Gwilliam and Dawn McSweeney offer their impressions of some of the acts they caught on Saturday’s edition of Heavy MTL. Mike Gwilliam: Heavy MTL is, in my opinion, one of the best heavy metal festivals in North America and possibly the best […]
* This post was submitted by an anonymous 15 year old writer. This summer, I came down from Canada to California to see my aunt, uncle and cousin for the third year in a row. Over the past three summers, I’ve babysat my cousin both in their house and outside in public. I get looks […]
This Friday Cabaret Underworld is hosting the third edition of OCHO, a collaboration and a celebration of eight unique successful individuals who will deliver an exceptionally audio visual dynamic night and of course an interactive experience. We want to send you there! ForgetTheBox is teaming up with Tyler & Sally to give away two sets of four tickets for the party. So come get your dance on…
ForgetTheBox wants to welcome a new music site to the Blogosphere: www.Laboitamusique.info. This new site is being run by IndieMontreal and will focus on cool shows and concert going on outside of Montreal. We don’t normally publish much french content on FTB but we thought you should know, so here is one of their first articles. They will also be operating an awesome listing section to find out what hot bands will be playing in le banlieue!
What do you do when your funding gets cut for purely political reasons? Simple. A few of your friends and supporters get together, put on a show and invite a few hundred of their friends to come and help you make some of that money back. That’s exactly what several performers and friends of STELLA, the sex workers’ rights organization that recently had a large portion of their budget removed by Harper’s Conservatives, are doing tonight. And they’re doing it twice, back to back…
The following is an open letter signed by 109 Chilean student leaders and academics: The undersigned Chilean academics and student leaders denounce before the national and international public opinion the persecution of the Quebec student movement in Canada, as expressed in Bill 78, enacted on Thursday May 19 by the Provincial Government of Premier Jean Charest. Bill 78, the “truncheon law”, is the most severe piece of legislation…
From ItCouldGetWorse: Quebec has decided not to implement Harper’s Omnibus Crime Bill C-10. Will other provinces follow suit? Omnibusters can only hope…and plan to continue pushing the premiers…
Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who’s the third-best local blog of them all? This week the Montreal Mirror released it’s annual Best Of Montreal reader poll. Forget The Box placed 3rd in the category of Best Blog! We would like to thank all our readers who voted for us as well as the good people over at the Mirror…
