Beyond the End of the World: A Dispatch from the 24th Festival de Musique Émergente (FME) in Rouyn-Noranda
Executive Overview “Rouyn-Noranda? The end of the world!” The clerk behind the counter at Beatnick Records in downtown Montreal offered this assessment as I handed over the cash for a vinyl copy of Joni Mitchell’s Wild Things Run Fast. (Later, that same clerk would transform into "Pat the Brat," taking command of the decks on … Read more
