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The music of DobaCaracol channels influences from Afro-beat to reggae to folk, effectively belying the group’s Québecois origins. Frontwomen Doriane Fabreg and Carole Facal 1st fulfilled at a Montreal rave, bonding over their distributed devotion for percussion-driven music. In 1998 they founded DobaCaracol, deriving the moniker using their particular nicknames. …

French-Canadian punk rock and roll quartet Vulgaires Machins shaped in the past due ’90s in Montréal, Quebec. They released their indie debut, La Vie Est Belle, in 1996. It had been accompanied by 24-40 in 1998, Regarde le Monde in 2000, Aimer le Mal in 2002, the Crossing the Bridge/Passe …

Folk-rock group Mes Aïeux (My Ancestors) had been founded in 1996 by 6 Quebec musicians. Sketching on traditional personas from Quebecois folklore, the French-language group performs materials addressing modern worries like globalization, over-medication, and regional politics within a less-than-threatening grassroots bundle. Mes Aïeux shortly discovered themselves as the figurehead from …

Bassist Jérôme Dupras, drummer Dominique Lebeau, multi-instrumentalist Marie-Annick Lépine, guitarist Jean-François Pauzé, and vocalist Karl Tremblay formed Les Cowboys Fringants (“the Frisky Cowboys”) within the Montreal suburb of Repentigny. Steeped in traditional Quebec folk and politically billed, they’re as much a modern rock-band, and they’ve constructed a popularity as a …