Graham Van Pelt

Pop Montreal happens September 25-29 and the 2019 lineup includes Mavis Staples, Nick Cave, Weyes Blood, Aldous Harding, Tinariwen, Colin Stetson, and more.

The inaugural New Colossus Festival, the CMJ-esque music festival and industry conference, happens this weekend (March 7-10) at East Village/LES venues Pianos, Arlene's Grocery, The Delancey, Berlin, Coney Island Baby, and Bowery Electric.

Plus: EMA opening Low's tour, Dave Hill, Leikeli47, Matt Martians one-off DJ set, and more tour-related news.

The music portion of SXSW 2019 runs March 11-19 in Austin, TX and other just-announced artists include The Dirty Nil, Versus, Waco Brothers, Combo Chimbita, Public Practice, Sloppy Jane, and more.

U.S. Girls and Tune-Yards remix each other, plus listen to new songs by St. Vincent, Thom Yorke, Julia Jacklin, High On Fire Tracyanne & Danny, Pill and more.

Listen to new songs by Mark Knopfler, John Carpenter, alt-J (with GoldLink & Terrace Martin), Drug Church, J.I.D, Connan Mockasin, The Dodos, and more.

Our August 2018 playlist includes new tracks by boygenius, Big Red Machine, Tirzah, Empress Of, Moses Sumney, Yves Tumor, mewithoutYou, Cloud Nothings, The Beths, Public Practice, Lindstrom, Robyn, Aphex Twin, and more.

Graham's first album under his own name will be out October 19 via Arbutus. He'll be on tour this fall including West Coast tour dates with Suuns.

Plus: The Arctic Monkeys, The Scientists, Dent May/Shannon Lay, Thursday, Killy, Sarah Shook, Eleanor Friedberger, Ulrika Spacek, The Goon Sax, and more newly-announced tours.

M for Montreal is an interesting festival, at times more like a conference or summer camp or one of those all-inclusive resorts -- but with better music...