‘The Music We Hate’ Issue Launch: July 8 at Cagibi

Thursday, July 8
Le Cagibi (5490 St. Laurent, Montreal)
9 p.m.
$5

To celebrate the launch of Maisonneuve’s “The Music We Hate” issue, three gnarly Montreal acts cover songs they can’t stand.

PAT JORDACHE (Islands, Tune-Yards, Sister Suvi)
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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD (“The next it-girl of folk-rock.”—the Montreal Mirror)
http://www.myspace.com …

Maisy Wins Gold at Mag Awards

Maisonneuve is pleased to report that we took home one gold and one silver at the National Magazine Awards on Friday in Toronto. Dave Bidini won Best Columnist for “Travels in Narnia” (Issue 31 — Spring 2009), “Mongolian Invasions” (Issue 32 — Summer 2009) and “The Great Comeback” (Issue 33 — Fall 2009). Art director Anna Minzhulina won silver in Art Direction for …

Our Summer 2010 issue

Should an uprising against bad tunes ever take root, this issue’s main feature, “The Music We Hate,” just might be its manifesto—and our cover image its greatest piece of propaganda. New York-based photographer Patrick J. Stefano teamed up with model Travis Johansen and Maisonneuve art director Anna Minzhulina to capture that most contradictory of characters: the revolutionary hipster …

Mag of the Year Nod, Plus 9 Other NMA Nominations

Maisonneuve received ten National Magazine Award nominations yesterday, including a coveted Magazine of the Year nod. That puts the magazine among the top ten most-nominated publications for the second year in a row. Congratulations to all our contributors and editors, as well as to all of this year’s worthy nominees!

Maisy’s nominations:

Magazine of the Year (alongside Report …

This is Off the Record, Right?

Margaret Atwood
“I once hitched from a New York freeway. Well, ‘hitched.’ More like rescued by the marines when the limousine blew up.”

Patrick Gregoire/James Irwin
“What always made this town a great place for music continues to exist. There is still an alienated, overeducated Anglophone underclass that has nothing to do with itself except fucking sit around singing …

Our Spring Issue

This spring we lead with “The Incredible True Story of Mr. Markarian,” a piece that uncovers a shocking case of investment fraud and examines the financial industry’s culture of impunity. The scam’s perpetrators were scarcely punished, while the victim spent years—and huge sums of money—fighting for redress in the civil courts. Such fraud is common, however …