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IT should be a roaring night at the West End Cultural Centre Sept. 30.

That’s when Montreal art-rock group Besnard Lakes will make its return to the city for the second time since the release of its critically acclaimed 2010 album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday for $21.25 at Ticketmaster and the WECC.

Fellow Montrealers Malajube will open the show.

Vincenzo D'Alto / Postmedia News Archives Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes
Vincenzo D'Alto / Postmedia News Archives Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes

The WECC is also the venue where genre-hopping musician/producer Socalled will make his next stand.

The Montreal artist will bring his mixture of hip-hop, Klezmer, rock, soul and funk to Winnipeg on Oct. 12 in support of his new album, Sleepover. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday for $20 at Ticketmaster, the WECC, Music Trader and the Folk Festival Music Store.

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