PowerOfDreams & Footworkin’: two new nights to spice up the Main

Summer is my favorite time of year, not only for its luscious weather and drawn-out days but for the abundance of new musical nights that seem to pop up all over the city like weeds (except you don’t want to get rid of these ones!)

For any Montrealer who complains that there’s nothing fun to do on the Main anymore, here are two new nights that are bound to break your boredom, get you out of the house and dancing off the day’s sangria in no time. 

First off is PowerOfDreams, hosted by Adam Wilcox, John Batt, Marie Jane and Thom Carlo Pascolin. I went to the night’s third edition at the Blue Dog Motel this past Saturday and haven’t danced so much since the long-gone days of Coda and Panthère Noire.

Sweaty and unpretentious, the night felt more like an apartment dance party than a club event. The crowd was amusingly diverse: shirtless bros dancing in front of a video screen playing short films, hipsters jumping up and down furiously to music they’d probably shun in broad daylight.

Everyone’s guilty pleasures were played, mixed in with the best selection of disco, indie-rock and electro-pop I’ve heard in a long time. Go, bring all your friends, get crazy.

Secondly is Footworkin’, a new monthly happening on the first Thursday of every month at Blizzarts. With the end of Teen Wolf Tuesdays and Plateau Saturdays, the feel of the bar has changed drastically as of late and seems to be in need of revival.

I think the night’s hosts, Laurent Bassols and Markus Garcia, have what it takes. Natives of Perpignan, France and Los Angeles, USA respectively, the boys have teamed up to bring hip hop, house, global ghetto music and bass to Blizzarts (and to our bodies) once a month.

If you’ve never heard of these two and are skeptical of their abilities, Garcia is one half of the popular LOL Boyz, who have been featured on Discobelle and Palms Out Sounds for their disco-house-pop music. Bassols (or DJ Azamat Bogdanov) is part of La Big Familia label in France and has been DJing, promoting and throwing parties in France for years. I think it’s safe to say you’ll be in good hands.
 

PowerOfDreams
Saturdays | 10 p.m – 3 a.m.
Blue Dog Motel | 3958, St-Laurent 

Footworkin’
First Thursday of the month | 10 p.m. – 3 a.m.
Blizzarts | 3956, St-Laurent
soundcloud.com/footworkin