One of the brightest moments of this year's Pop got recorded! Watch it!

Special thanks to Psychology!

This small movie on the people surrounding Murray Lightburn during troubled times is really interesting and well made. The last part of the four contains video footage from the Dears show at Masonic Temple for Pop Montreal 2008! Check it out!

Deerhunter were kind of boring at first, but when you get into their groove, it becomes mesmerizing and trance inducing. It's real good music, reminescent of early Pink Floyd, most notably A Saucerful of Secrets. The songs are really driven by the awesome rhythm section. The drummer keeps it simple and effective while the bass player crafts incredibly hooky basslines. The three guitars add layers and layers of noise over Bradford Cox's aerial chanting. It was a beautiful night in a venue that should be used more often!

Persuasions live on St-Laurent

It's so hard to do it all at Pop.  You really really wanted to get out of work to see the chat with Irma, but you already got to work late on account of your Wednesday night hangover.  We've heard all the excuses, and still love you and want you to see what you may have missed during all those afternoons and evenings of once-in-a-lifetime encounters and artist-led discussions and workshops.

Thanks to the really helpful and talented people from CUTV (Concordia University TV), we have public archives of some of the highlighted events from the Pop Montreal Symposium, from 'Thinking Outside the Beatbox' to the 5à7 with Lydia Lunch.  Check them out here and spread the word.

 

Come out and meet some filmmakers & musicians with whom you can potentially collaborate.

3 years ago, Pop and the NFB got together to find a way to get young filmmakers and musicians to make art outside of the VideoFACT box.  The resulting collaborations are screened at Pop Montreal, and can subsequently be toured around festivals.  

If you're interested in participating to the third edition of Making Music, please come to the Centre St-Ambroise tomorrow night (Oct.30th), 5080 St-Ambroise in St-Henri, from 7pm-9:30pm.  You'll get a chance to talk to some filmmakers and musicians, if you're looking to meet that special someone with whom you'll share this life-altering experience, or talk to some really shmoozy people!  Music & drinks too.  If you can't make it, go here for the project outline and proposal guidelines.

Check out one of the best films from the Making Music 1, by Sinbad Richardson & Dishwasher aka Martin Ceasar.

 

Last year saw Making Music incorporate animation into its platform. David Seitz & Mixylodeon made "The Mixy Tapes", one of the best examples of the potential of the porject.

in the Facebook group for more information on applying to the program, and act quick as the deadline of early November is fast approaching.

New York: Financial District

NYC. Torn between two passions, travel and music. Is it possible to survive a musical attack as monstrous as CMJ while visiting the five boroughs, each one more gigantic than the other? The spacetime jigsaw puzzle that those few days are representing would be impossible to resolve even with the help of the most detailed planning. Let's give ourselves the chance to see all this flowing along the cocktails, the disco nights, Kill Bill's House of Blue Leaves, expensive beer, agressive doormen, tropical storms and the huge Tollbooth Pie at Butcher Block in Plattsburgh. Put Tha Carter III in the ghettoblaster, cry about Kanye's new obsession with R&B, pray for Obama's election and press Play.

Click on the title for pictures and a quick run through the more lengthy blog you can find on the french part of the website. Reading it all will definitely improve your second language skills!

Registration at the Notman House: Richmond Lam, photographer

Seems like in our 7th year, we're getting a little better at spinning together a pretty magical & memorable festival.  We're still reeling from all the late nights & new discoveries, and it's always nice to hear that other people still are too...

“If ‘the city is hockey’ during the winter months, the city is Pop in early October.” Montreal Gazette  

“Why is Pop Montreal so much fun, while our own CMJ is more like a painful, sweaty rite of passage.” The Village Voice

“Part of the fun of Pop Montreal, though, is that the city's pop is inextricable from the rest of its art and culture.” Pitchfork

“Montreal’s undisputed champion of cartoon-stoned, shitfaced and lippy, all-out-floorboard-trembling music festivals.” Montreal Mirror

“Pop's piece de resistance remains its feisty homegrown talent.”  Spin Magazine

“Pop Montreal is the best festival.” Now Magazine

“With each year, it becomes more evident why Pop Montreal is the only club-crawl music festival in North America that features its host city in its brand name, because no other music festival goes to such great lengths to incorporate local history, architecture and infiltration ideology into its programming.” Eye Weekly

And if you're particularly curious about Montreal's 'creative class' (and can withstand some more pop mtl props), please read the Montreal Gazette's weekend article on our city's cultural economy and let us know what you think...pop as the next SXSW? really?  Read it here.

Baltimore Round Robin ft. Deathset @ Pop Montreal 2008 from Anne-Marie Bergeron on Vimeo.

This column will grow as we get new material. Don't hesitate to send us any text or picture that could be of any interest to the festivalgoers. We will only post well classified albums and well written stories that are already available online. Thanks!

 

WRITE-UPS!

Globe and Mail's Carl Wilson

Pitchfork's Douglas Wolk

SPIN's Simona Rabinovitch

Village Voice's Scott Indrisek

Montreal Mirror's Johnson Cummins

Montreal Mirror's Jack Oatmon

 

BLOGS!

Midnight Poutine

Trendwhore

 

PICTURES!

Friendattack @ 33mag

Garry? @ MySpace

 

VIDEOS!

Anne-Marie Bergeron on Vimeo!