It’s never been easy for artists who sing in languages other than English to get noticed in the United States. So I asked Oli Sasseville why his Canadian band sings in French. He plays bass in ...

A few months ago, I saw the Montreal oi band Béton Armé play a DIY show with Poison Ruïn, and I was impressed. Béton Armé's sound is a hard, classicist take on old-school oi sounds that occasionally ...

Dan, the single-named singer from the Montreal oi band Béton Armé, actually dances while he's performing. On the DIY punk underground, that really sets him apart. It's one thing that he's got in ...

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