MUTEK Festival (Montreal) – May 30 – June 3, 2012

With all the festivals that occur each summer, there are always the ones with the most notoriety. And unfortunately, a lot of these take place in the United States or Europe. But MUTEK is a great homegrown festival that manages to showcase a variety of artists and installations that you you haven’t necessarily heard of before; that’s beauty of it. These are some of the finest DJs and electronic artists in the world and they are all here in one of Canada’s greatest cities. Reasonably priced compared to most festivals, and a six-hour drive away from Toronto, everyone should, at some point in their life, try and attend MUTEK. The Singing Lamb’s Jack Ewing reports from Montreal and reviews the weekend’s acts.

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Bry Webb / Del Bel / Lisa Bozikovic @ 918 Bathurst Centre – June 1, 2012