How Mile-Ex launched and lost Montreal's warehouse pop boom

Back in 2012, two very different things were top of mind for young Montrealers.

Student groups across the province had voted to strike, setting into motion a “Maple Spring” of mass demonstrations with oceans of defiant students flooding downtown streets.

At the same time, a McGill dropout named Claire Boucher—better known as Grimes—competed for their attention. Her third studio album, Visions, had dropped just two weeks before to rave reviews from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the like.

While the politics of the province were being reshaped by the carrés rouges, a creative golden age was dawning in Montreal. Grimes had been catapulted into stardom, and the Mile-Ex sound was about to storm the world.

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