S.M.O.S.A.N.

ArtsMusic

Celebrate spring (sort of) by going to see all these awesome shows this week.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

Pony Girl + Pang Attack @ L’esco

Doors open at 8:30 p.m., tickets cost $10 at the door or $8 in advance via Indie Montreal.

Chronobot + Show of Bedlam + Squalor + The Heavy Eye @ Turbo Haus

Show starts at 8 p.m., $10.

S.M.O.S.A.N. #10: Dam Ships + UUBBUURRUU + Cepheid Flux @ Le Cagibi

Doors open at 8:45 p.m., $5.

Seb Black + Eddie Paul @ Casa del Popolo

Show starts at 10 p.m., $11.

FRIDAY, MARCH 21

Black Marble + You. + Police des moeurs + Fatal Suit @ Katacombes

Doors open at 9 p.m., $10.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22

The Whiskey Chase + Scrap + Set It Back + Monkey’s Fists + Third Reflex @ L’Hémisphère Gauche

Show starts at 8:30 p.m., $7.

Dopethrone + ZAUM + Greys + Mountain Dust @ Turbo Haus

Show starts at 8 p.m., $5 before 8 p.m., $10 after.

Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))) + Aim Low + Martin Tétreault & Michel Langevin @ La Sala Rossa

Show starts at 8:30 p.m., tickets cost $18 at the door or $15 in advance online or at Atom Heart, Cheap Thrills, L’Oblique, Aux 33 Tours and Phonopolis.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

Andrew W.K. + Biblical @ Foufounes Électriques

Show starts at 9 p.m., tickets cost $22.50 + fees at the door or $20 + fees in advance online or at Cheap Thrills.

ArtsMusic

As always, tons of shows this week. Don’t fuck around.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

S.M.O.S.A.N. #9: Atsuko Chiba + Small Teeth + Big Mamma Tough Love @ Le Cagibi

The Secret Museum of Sound and Nature is a monthly concert series dedicated to bringing together artists and audiences who are interested in the stuff that tends to fall outside of conventional music genres–experimental, stoner, shoegaze, and more.

Show starts at 9 p.m., $5.

COUSINS + Princess Nokia + BootyBakery @ La Sala Rossa

Show starts at 10 p.m., $10.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Vulgar, You + El Napoleon + The Rejecters @ Quai des Brumes

Doors open at 9 p.m., $8.

Rock Against Racism: Asile + Malokio + Les temps liquides + Bearmace @ Katacombes

The 6th edition of Rock Against Racism will benefit Montreal’s Immigrant Workers Centre. Part of the IWC’s mandate is to provide education about workers’ rights in a safe environment, to improve living and working conditions for immigrant workers, and to help defend the rights of immigrants in their places of work.

Show starts at 9 p.m., $6 to $10.

Muted Screams + Mad June + The Falling + Elyse and the Affair @ Pub St-Paul

Show starts at 8 p.m., $10.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22

VCR + Thee  Nodes + Dead Future + Pretty Boys @ Turbo Haus

Show starts at 9 p.m., $6.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23

How Sad + Seoul @ Divan Orange

Doors open at 8 p.m., tickets cost $10 and can be purchased at Atom Heart, Cheap Thrills, Off The Hook, Moog Audio, Phonopolis or online here.