Palomosa revient pour une deuxième édition ce weekend au parc Jean-Drapeau. Malgré sa jeunesse, le festival s’impose déjà comme le rendez-vous des mélomanes avides de l’underground et des musiques alternatives. L’édition 2025 met en avant un mélange éclectique d’artistes d’horizons variés, qui ont tous en commun d’être à l’avant-garde dans leur style.
De pionnières dans leur domaine à des étoiles montantes de la scène émergente, voici certains des spectacles à ne pas manquer à Palomosa ce weekend.
M.I.A.
5 septembre- Scène Fizz, 22h
Difficile d’imaginer la pop contemporaine sans l’empreinte de M.I.A. Depuis Arular et Kala, ses deux albums vivement encensés sortis au milieu des années 2000, ses morceaux comme Paper Planes et Bad Girls ont ouvert la voie à une esthétique où électro, hip-hop et world music se rencontrent. Son approche visuelle, politique (parfois controversée) et sonore a influencé toute une génération d’artistes.
Ses spectacles se font rares, donc ne manquez pas votre chance de la voir en live, surtout dans un cadre aussi intimiste que Palomosa.
Arca
6 septembre- Scène Fizz, 22h
Arca est devenue l’une des figures les plus marquantes de la musique électronique expérimentale. Productrice vénézuélienne installée à Barcelone, elle a aidé à façonner des univers sonores pour des artistes comme Björk, FKA twigs, Rosalia et Kanye West, tout en développant une œuvre solo qui mêle voix déformées, rythmes club déconstruits et performances très poussées.
Son esthétique queer et radicale fait d’elle une révolutionnaire à sa manière; ses concerts sont autant des expériences sonores que visuelles, où la frontière entre intimité et chaos est volontairement brouillée.
Fcukers
5 septembre- Scène Fizz, 19h15
Duo issu de la scène alternative new-yorkaise, fcukers propose une électro abrasive qui convoque autant la pop, le dubstep et la musique club. Leur univers évoque l’énergie brute des raves clandestines à la sauce Gen Z, avec des sets live déjantés.
Rebecca Black
6 septembre- Scène Fizz, 20h30
Propulsée dans la culture web à 13 ans grâce à Friday, Rebecca Black a longtemps été un meme avant d’opérer un virage artistique inattendu. Son EP Rebecca Black Was Here (2021) et l’album Let Her Burn (2023) l’ont installée comme une voix singulière dans la sphère hyperpop, jouant avec l’autodérision, l’esthétique internet et les codes de la célébrité.
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6 septembre, Scène du Jardin, 20h30
DJ japonais atypique, Yousuke Yukimatsu s’est vite imposé dans le monde du DJ'ing grâce à des sets où l’imprévisibilité est reine. Là où la plupart des DJs cherchent la continuité, il préfère la rupture: superpositions improbables, variations soudaines de tempo, collisions entre genres.
Devenu DJ sur un coup de tête après avoir reçu un diagnostic de cancer, son approche carpe diem déconstruit l’idée du mix linéaire, où il embrasse le chaos de chaque événement. À Palomosa, il offrira sans doute l’un des moments les plus déstabilisants du week-end.
Marie Davidson
6 septembre, Scène du Jardin, 17h50
Artiste montréalaise incontournable, Marie Davidson occupe une place singulière dans le paysage électronique. Connue pour ses projets solo et avec Essaie Pas, elle navigue entre techno minimale, coldwave et spoken word. Après l’album Working Class Woman, où elle explorait la face sombre de la culture club, elle s’est réinventée avec Renegade Breakdown en 2020 en intégrant des influences funk, disco et synthpop.
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War Is Peace: Trump’s Regime-Change Reversal
As American and Israeli rockets fly into Tehran, with the stated goal of regime change, anyone who bought into the self-evidently absurd idea of “Donald the Dove” ending America’s forever wars ought to be suffering from a bloody form of buyer’s remorse.
It was always bullshit. But that’s what the Trump team was selling hard. Take human ghoul Stephen Miller’s tweet days before the election: “Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace.”
The Trump team reads George Orwell’s 1984 like an owner’s manual and so of course “war is peace.” Their undermining of NATO and the dismantling of American alliances in favor of a “might makes right” foreign policy executed by a sycophantic kakistocracy is a guarantee of more war amid autocratic power grabs worldwide, with a side order of corrupt crony capitalism to profit from the chaos.
If you voted for Trump and believed him, this is on you. And that includes self-styled Palestinian peace activists who thought that Biden and Harris were the worst of all possible worlds and stayed home. We will no doubt see protests for the innocent lives lost in these strikes — but I’d have a lot more time for those folks if they were also seen protesting the estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Iranian lives snuffed out by murderous mullahs in the last few months alone.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been despotic and dangerous from its inception. The Iranian people have been oppressed and denied basic freedoms for decades. But this is an extreme example of a war of choice. The American military strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facility last year were justified because Iran cannot be trusted with a nuclear weapon. That is true. But the much trumpeted total obliteration of those facilities is apparently not true — or so goes the justification for this war. And don’t forget that it was Trump who pulled the U.S. out of an Obama-era deal to stop Iran from developing weapons — arguing absurdly that the imperfect anti-nuke deal needed to be blown up to stop Iran from developing a bomb. Iran’s subsequent progress toward a bomb then created the rationale toward these strikes. This is a self-inflicted state of emergency. Peace is war and war is peace.
Pity the willful dupes in Congress who deluded themselves into thinking that Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. They’ll probably rationalize that he would’ve been peaceful if he got the honor. Now it will be read as a cautionary tale for not sucking up. The chairman of the Board of Peace is now bored of peace. While Rand Paul remains admirably consistent, it’s Lindsey Graham who is pirouetting around the Senate floor while the Gimp Speaker Mike Johnson is unable to speak for the basic constitutional principles of separation of powers let alone authorization to go to war.
If you’re feeling shell-shocked trying to keep up with Operation Epstein Distraction, get ready for the inevitable next crisis — regime change without a plan for replacement. This is what the Trump administration did in Venezuela — kidnapping the socialist dictator Maduro but keeping his regime in place in exchange for crude oil access. The opposition is still in exile and its leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump in exchange for exactly nothing.
One of the clear lessons of history is that if you don’t win the peace, you don’t win the war. The Saudis and their Sunni allies will back the U.S. and Iran because they hate the Shia Iranians (who, incidentally, are not Arabs), but beyond removing the Iranian regime, the plans for replacement and stabilization seem TBD — and with Trump’s inability to stay focused on anything beyond his immediate self-interest, solid plans are unlikely to emerge. Maybe a leader will come from the underground opposition; maybe it will be the Shah’s son, who has been living in the U.S. waiting for a restoration like many members of the diaspora. The upside is that Iran has a distinguished history and an accomplished Persian culture: The Islamists don’t represent the entirety of the people of Iran and never have.
But the path ahead will be messy at best. It will require concerted effort and civil commitment, not just an open call for private investment from Mar-a-Lago members. If the United States is now kidnapping and killing dictators without direct provocation, it establishes a dangerous precedent which will come back to bite us after demolishing our moral authority in the world.
It is the unexpected effects, the cascades of consequence where we cannot always plan ahead, that cause most responsible statesmen to try to keep the peace. But Trump has the carelessness of a rich-boy bully who can always buy or bluster his way out of trouble. He’s a con man who has found his ultimate mark in his followers, who fool themselves into thinking that a reflexive liar is the one man with the courage to tell the truth.
Perhaps the most prominent example is the vice president himself — a bright guy who not that long ago compared Trump to Hitler and a deadly narcotic but then convinced himself that careerism demanded an abrupt conversion. After all, he endorsed Trump less than two years ago with this very serious column headlined “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars,” explaining, “He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.”