This show is going to take place on Saturday at Divan Orange. It will be free, and also pretty early! At 6 PM, Bonjour Brumaire will make your head and soul sway with magnificent lyrics and dynamic songwriting. At 7 PM, Lank of Talk shake off their pre-launch slumber to remind us why they are one of the most well known local bands on the international touring scene. At 8 PM, dj CFCF will take control of your hips to prepare you for the MEG Club event!
POP
MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
CELEBRATES
LUCKY #7
October
1-5, 2008
COME
AND RAWK AT OUR FESTI!
2008 will be a year like no other for POP Montreal. We have been inspired like never before. A rumbling from the underground has struck our souls and we are happy to offer you the first glimpse at our initial programming. To begin we have the insurmountable songwriting legend Burt Bacharach, perhaps the single most important figure in popular music of the 20th. As far as legends go there may be no greater voice than that of the Grammy winning Irma Thomas, the undisputed Soul Queen of New Orleans who will make an exclusive appearance at the festival this year. If you're getting excited, hold your breath; we will also have shows by the amazingly prolific and poetic-punk troubadour Nick Cave, the seminal and brilliant WIRE, and the godfathers of experimental electronic psych Silver Apples. In addition, there will be the single most important benchmark for a cappella music, Brooklyn's The Persuasions. Added to this list are other stand-outs including Canadian rap legend, Michie Mee, upstarts like Black Kids, Crystal Castles, Dan Deacon and The Dodos, as well as Hot Chip, Vetiver, T. Raumschmiere, Teki Latex, Dark Meat, Ste Catherines, Liam Finn, and reclusive Neil Young collaborator Elyse Weinberg (go ahead! google her). We will also have a special commissioned composers series with, among others, original pieces by Socalled, performed at porn theatre Cinéma L'Amour. This is just the beginning, we have lots more to come including all of our fun segments + new things like: Kids POP, our very first gear exchange and record shop, and the enigmatic art of Mingering Mike. Stay tuned!
CONFIRMED ARTISTS: Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hot Chip, The Persuasions, Dan Deacon, Cori Bishop (aka Elyse Weinberg), United Steel Workers of Montreal, The Dodos, Liam Finn, Wintersleep, Dark Meat, Headlights, Playdoe, Dabaaz, Kim, Eric Bélanger, The Veils, WIRE, Crystal Castles, Black Kids, St Catherines, Vetiver, Silver Apples, Thomas Function, Julie Doiron, Chad Van Gaalen, Dominique Grange & Jacques Tardi, Great Lake Swimmers, Katie Moore, Socalled, Woodhands, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Sam Shalabi, Gatineau, Jason Collett, Chocolat, Irma Thomas, Wedding Present, Evangelicals, Beach House, Jana Hunter, Cex, Teeth Mountain, Teki Latex, D’Urbervilles, Michie Mee, and so much more!
OUR SEGMENTS!
Introducing…
KIDS POP
Pop
Montreal is pleased to extend the fun to the kids!
This year, kids and youth can explore Montreal’s innovative
cultural
scene
at Kids Pop. A variety of shows,
demonstrations and workshops will be offered that connect
artists with
young folks in order to share skills, encourage artistic expression and
enjoy
Montreal’s cultural offerings.
PUCES
POP
In its 4th year, Puces Pop is a DIY festival that celebrates
independent
creation. It features a marketplace of handmade goods, a
record sale
and
gear swap, a series of free arts & crafts workshops and a
mini-seminar on
business skills for self-employed artists. It's all kicked
off by a
fashion show with a $2000 prize!
ART
POP
The Visual Arts component of Pop Montreal, Art Pop's
purpose is to showcase fun and exciting artists that resonate with the
youthful
energy of its musical counterpart. Look out for some wild technologies,
superheroes, Japanese copycats, French activists, teenage passion,
digital
vandalism and crazy good times in general. And cute cats too.
SYMPOSIUM
- Talk Music to Me!
Pop Montreal's Symposium is a music conference like no other: all
programming
is artist-driven, interdisciplinary, and reflective of our city's
diverse and
lively culture. We will be bringing together a discerning and savvy
force of
thinkers and artists to present panel discussions, keynote interviews,
listening sessions, as well as hands-on workshops and round-tables.
FILM
POP
Film Pop gets schooled and goes back to its
roots! More musically inclined than ever before, with Paris'
Vincent
Moon's views on All Tomorrow's Parties, workshops
on writing
music for
film, rockabilly the 514 way, NFB 3-D reveries, and some headlining
surprises,
you'll definitely want to be watching more attentively during this 5th
edition
of Pop's cinematic offspring.
Glad to hear that you're making your way down the bike path to the party tomorrow evening! The bike-in begins at dusk, so don your helmets, assemble your bike brigade and head south to 5080 St-Ambroise, along the Lachine canal. And worry not about the way home. After a little dancing, the flocks of people returning home together will give you enough momentum to get up the hill. See you there!
TO GET HERE: Place St-Henri Metro station (About 15 minutes walking distance) Bus: 36 or 191 (on Notre-Dame W.) from Place St-Henri Metro Exit: St-Rémi St./Notre-Dame OR From the Lionel-Groulx Metro, take Bus 78 Exit: St-Rémi, corner St-Ambroise, turn right OR From Vendome Metro, take Bus 37 Exit: Côte St-Paul, corner St-Ambroise, turn left
We don't fancy ourselves modern Marconis, but the Pop Sirius Player has been pretty influential on our own day-to-day internetting and is proving to be quite an interesting interactive experience. So far, there have been tens of thousands of votes cast by users, some blindly, and some with clear favorites. Just check out the results page to see some of the recent patterns.
We've made some changes in order to allow all the artists and equal chance at being heard and voted for. By limiting the number of songs in rotation to 2 per aritst, we're sure to see more balanced results and a better diversity in the top 20. We've also made a Facebook application to help you spend even more time sifting through the pop.
Here are some of the more recent top 20 artists. There have been some shifts in opinion since the last tally a few weeks ago. Keep an eye on the results page to see new tracks appear, and older ones creep up closer to the top!
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Rachel Margaret, San Francisco, CA Imagine a gene lab accident. Beakers holding the DNA of Bob Mould, Elisabeth Fraser and David Lynch crash to the floor, their contents mixing and recombining... She calls it Acoustic/Synth Pop. Emo/HyperHookHop, Marge, whatever it's called, Rachel Margaret's music is supercharged and gift-twisted. |
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The Superfantastics, Halifax, NS The Superfantastics are the Alex P. Keaton of the indie-pop scene. Small in size, big in heart and adorable in a sweater-vest. |
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Hard Rock/Heavy Funk, hot wild theatrical show that will set your endorphins soaring, making you dance, sweat and feel alive. |
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Sunshine State is two friends trying to make sense of life and love in the city . It's fresh acoustic pop with bossa nova , jazz , and soul influences that will make you laugh , cry , and be glad you're alive . |
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