Entries tagged with: Pop Montreal

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Think About Life released album (MP3), played Pop Montreal (pics), playing CMJ (dates), added to BV CMJ show @ MHOW

photos by Ryan Muir DOWNLOAD: Think About Life - Johanna (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Think About Life - Havin My Baby (MP3) Some things' strengths rest in the laurels of relative secrecy, allowing them to develop without the burden of public scrutiny...

Posted on October 18, 2009 9:05 PM

Lee Fields played Pop Montreal (pics), Daptone Records doing CMJ (lineup), releasing Daptone Gold (tracklist)

photos by Ryan Muir "Daptone Gold is a collection of hits and obscurities, album favorites and unheard exclusives from the Daptone Records catalog. Since first rearing it's head in 2001, Daptone has upheld it's reputation as both a premier source...

Posted on October 18, 2009 8:36 PM

Valleys (MP3) played Pop Montreal (pics), are on tour (dates), in NYC tonight with L'Altra, Friday with Blue Jungle

DOWNLOAD: Valleys - Silent Woods (MP3) words by Bill Pearis, photos by Ryan Muir "What seemed like an improvisational, spontaneous unfolding of creative ideas, sounds and unconventional methods of playing standard musical instruments was in fact Montreal's Valleys performance on...

Posted on October 8, 2009 5:41 PM

tUnE-YaRdS played Union Hall, a museum for Pop Montreal (pics), another Take-Away show (pics & video)

photos by Ryan Muir "The band on everyone's lips [at Pop Montreal] was local solo artist tUnE-YaRdS, a.k.a. Merill Garbus, whose looped ukulele electronica captured many people's attention at the festival. (Her track "Sunlight" was also the de facto Plateau...

Posted on October 7, 2009 11:59 AM

Sister Suvi played their LAST show @ Pop Montreal - pics

photos by Ryan Muir "I headed back to St-Laurent too late to return to Cabaret Juste Pour Rire and catch Clues, so I poked my head in at a couple places along the way and made it up to Club...

Posted on October 6, 2009 4:16 PM

Jay Reatard, Useless Eaters, Box Elders, Hunx & His Punx & Nobunny (Shattered Records) @ Le Poisson Rouge - pics

photos by Jake Forney "Kicking off Pop Montreal [Wednesday] night, NoBunny took the stage by force - a gang of musically inclined vagrants clothed in barely there Y-fronts and strategically placed rabbit accessories stormed Sala and its punk pitched transient...

Posted on October 2, 2009 1:13 PM

Pop Montreal (now), Bruce Springsteen (setlist), Man Man (canceled), Phenomenal Handclap Band, Jay Reatard (tonight)

Brent at work (at Pop Montreal) (run comrade) Pop Montreal kicked off last night (9/30). It's not too late to drop everything and take a car over the border. I haven't been in a few years, but non-stop show hopping...

Posted on October 1, 2009 10:46 AM

Pop Montreal kicks off today (in Montreal)

Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, Fever Ray, Os Mutantes, Butthole Surfers, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Jay Reatard, Micachu & The Shapes, Clues, Slim Twig, Think About Life, Cadence Weapon, Sam Shalabi's Egyptian Light Orchestra, Japandroids, The Do , Lullaybe...

Posted on September 30, 2009 3:34 PM

Micachu & The Shapes - on tour now, playing BV Pop Montreal & two NYC shows (Littlefield & Wordless w/ ACME)

DOWNLOAD: The xx - Basic Space (Micachu Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Speech Debelle - Better Days (Revox) ft. Micachu and Wiley (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Micachu & The Shapes - Lips (MP3) Micachu & The Shapes @ Siren Fest 09 (more by Chris...

Posted on September 29, 2009 4:19 PM

Faust - 2009 tour dates (MHOW, Philly, Pop Montreal, more)

"Formed 1969 in Hamburg, Germany and considered the inventors of "Kraut Rock", iconoclasts extraordinaire Faust are key figures in 20th Century music. In the early 70's, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically European art-form....

Posted on September 1, 2009 11:45 AM

Pop Montreal 2009 - initial lineup (Fever Ray, Os Mutantes, Butthole Surfers, Lou Barlow + the Missingmen...)

The lineup is coming together for Pop Montreal 2009 (September 30th to October 4th). Confirmed acts include Butthole Surfers, Fever Ray, Dinosaur Jr., Lou Barlow + The Missingmen, Loudon Wainwright III, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Thee Oh Sees,...

Posted on June 16, 2009 12:38 AM

Hot Chip & Growing played Pop Montreal & Terminal 5 (pics)

DOWNLOAD: Hot Chip - Wrestlers (MP3) photos by Gabi Porter Hot Chip are on a North American tour that started at San Diego's Street Scene, hit Treasure Island in San Francisco, stopped at ACL in Austin and visited Pop Montreal...

Posted on October 5, 2008 11:24 PM

Alden Penner plays solo & with CLUES, MP3, Pop Montreal

by BrooklynVegan Mike DOWNLOAD: Clues - Perfect Fit (MP3) The Unicorns have attained a mystique since their break-up in 2005. Since that time, Nick Thorburn, has been anything but low key, launching Islands, Th' Cornn Gang Human Highway with Jim...

Posted on September 29, 2008 9:44 AM

Adventure - new album, 2008 Tour Dates (NYC now & later)

by BrooklynVegan Mike DOWNLOAD: Adventure - Battle Cat (MP3) Like FirestARTer before them, Crystal Castles and Adventure are 8-bit artists that don't rely on kitsch and nostalgia to buoy the songs. They are reframing the perception of the sounds used...

Posted on September 25, 2008 1:20 PM

a spotlight on The Luyas (from Montreal)

by Montreal's BrooklynVegan Mike DOWNLOAD: The Luyas - Play Dead (MP3) The Luyas are one of my favorite bands in Montreal. Their music, a collaboration of guitar, drums, melodica, and french horn, reminds me of that classic early 90's college...

Posted on September 23, 2008 9:35 AM

a spotlight on Growing (ATP NY pics included)

words by Montreal's BrooklynVegan Mike, photos by Zach Dilgard Growing (Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria) are an experimental/drone duo originally from Seattle that have relocated to Brooklyn. Growing's music resides on a very specific plane that embraces intense rhythmic patterns...

Posted on September 23, 2008 9:00 AM

Pop Montreal - Oct 1-5, 2008 - Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave, and a Socalled Final Fantasy live porn score included

by BrooklynVegan Mike The 7th annual Pop Montreal five-day music festival (the CMJ/SXSW of Montreal) begins October 1st and this will be their most unique year yet. Nick Cave, Hot Chip, Method Man and Redman, The Dodos, The Black Kids,...

Posted on September 14, 2008 9:19 AM

The Dodos - 2008 Tour Dates (Spiegelworld / Pop Montreal)

The Dodos @ SoundFix (more by Leia Jospe) The Dodos have revealed an upcoming show at the Spiegeltent in NYC on September 28th. Spiegelworld is a unique, seasonal venue (a spiegeltent) down by South Street Seaport that is now in...

Posted on June 9, 2008 11:43 AM

Miracle Fortress played Pop Montreal, playing CMJ

DOWNLOAD: Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In Your Dreams (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Miracle Fortress - This Thing About You (MP3) Miracle Fortress @ La Tulipe (Pop Montreal) - Oct 3, 2007 (CRED) Miracle Fortress were THIIIIIIS close to winning the...

Posted on October 9, 2007 2:27 AM

Osheaga this weekend, and Pop Montreal coming soon

The 2-day Osheaga Music Festival is happening this weekend in Montreal. Smashing Pumpkins, Bloc Party, Feist, M.I.A., Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, and Voxtrot are among the many artists playing. BrooklynVegan Mike will be on the ground to let us know how...

Posted on September 7, 2007 11:17 AM

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