Exclaim! is a monthly national music paper - and a former employer of mine.
They kicked off April with their Spring Fling concert with four awesome Canadian bands: You Say Party! We Say Die! (Vancouver), Malajube (Montreal), Chromeo (Montreal/New York), and (DJ) Champion (again from Montreal - what can I say? Montreal's where's it at!).

But first here's You Say Party! We Say Die! earlier that day at MTV.

Then they raced over to the Spring Fling show and kicked things off there. Here's Derek & Stephen rocking out.


Malajube is a francophone four-piece. Yes, they sing in French but music is universal. N'est pas?



Chromeo are Dave 1 and P-Thugg. The only thing I had heard from them was a fun remix of Feist's Sea Lion Woman - worth a listen on their myspace.


DJ Champion made the show! Max, the mix-master/conductor started things off.

Then one by one, four guitarists made their entrance: Barry, Fets, J-L and Seb.

Then the ladies came out: Manon the bassist in the back and Betty in front.


What a night! Baisers!