|
A GUIDE TO POP MONTREAL 2008 (FROM SAID THE GRAMOPHONE)
by Sean
Please note: MP3s are only kept online for a short time, and if this entry is from more than a couple of weeks ago, the music probably won't be available to download any more.
 Next week is Pop Montreal, the city's largest & magnificently madcap music/film/art/&c festival. We will be there, bumbling like bees from venue to venue, blossom to blossom, and if you're lucky you will be too. There are some 350 bands playing Pop, and about 150 concerts, so everyone's cup runneth over. Of these hundreds, there is a ton of stuff I do not know - even after helping on the Pop listening committee. But of what I do know, well - here are my tips. Everything listed here is highly recommended! Anything listed in bold is basically CAN'T MISS. I've also included sections at the beginning of every day's breakdown: Staying put: For people who want to stay in one spot all night rather than bumblin' from spot to spot.
9:30 pm - Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few [Cagibi]
12:45 pm - Indie Strategies panel (with Julie Doiron, Brendan Reed) [Main Hall]
7:30 pm - Matrix LitPop Award Presentation [Ukrainian Federation]
1:45 pm - Music Journalism panel (moderated by me!) [Green Room]
2:00 pm - Black Feelings (+ bbq!) [Friendship Cove] --- What did I miss? Add your own Pop tips & plugs in the comments. UPDATE 30/9: See A worthy Pop guide from the Phonopolis record store. UPDATE 1/10: Various additions and amendments. Posted by Sean at September 25, 2008 11:18 AMComments
My friends The Gertrudes are playing on Saturday night. They are a lovely 9-piece from Kingston. They've got a theremin player, even! Posted by Lindsay at September 25, 2008 12:32 PMThe Lovely Sparrows will be playing Friday, Oct 3 @ Cagibi with Valery Gore and Hi Lonely Oak. 20:00 Valery Gore Hey Shawn, fyi Weather Station had to cancel. In the roll dice category, I would add Reggae legend 's Sister Nancy Posted by Guillaume at September 26, 2008 1:21 AMReally wish I could attend, BUT all that aside, don't miss the opportunity to witness a Baltimore Round Robin (even if it's geographically displaced)! These are spectacles, sure, but they're infused with the Baltimore aesthetic and idea that the "audience" is just as much a part of the spectacle as is the performance. So be prepared. Posted by April at September 26, 2008 10:43 AMthanks for that perspective, april! sounds amazing. re guillaume's comment - word is that Weather Report are back on! hurray! Posted by sean at September 27, 2008 11:53 AMboats is @ 8:00 on saturday, not 10:00 Posted by Mat at September 27, 2008 6:29 PMI think I deserve attention too. October 2, 21h30, Sala Rosa. Impossible collage songs ! Posted by Vincent Bergeron at September 28, 2008 11:22 AMHey, this is Simon from the Weather Station. WE DIDN'T CANCEL! I don't know how this vicious rumour got started. Posted by simon borer at October 1, 2008 5:42 AMon 10/02, jonathon "beaver" shepard is playing a show @ Casa Del Popolo
Post a comment |
 about said the gramophone
this is a daily sampler of really good songs. all tracks are posted out of love. please go out and buy the records!
to play a song in-browser (flash required), click the  . to download a song, right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
all songs are removed within a week or two of posting. said the gramophone launched in march 2003, and added songs in november of that year. it was one of the world's very first mp3blogs. if you would like to say hello, find out our mailing addresses or invite us to shows, please get in touch: montreal, canada: sean toronto, canada: jordan montreal, canada: dan please don't send us emails with tons of huge attachments; if emailing a bunch of mp3s etc, use a service like MailBigFile. if you are the copyright holder of any song posted here, please contact us if you would like the song taken down early. please do not direct link to any of these tracks. please love and wonder. "and i shall watch the ferry-boats / and they'll get high on a bluer ocean / against tomorrow's sky / and i will never grow so old again." we are a member of MBV.
about the authors
Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
search
Archives
elsewhere
our favourite blogs
(◊ means they write about music) Back to the World La Blogothèque ◊ Fluxblog ◊ Weird Canada ◊ Juan and Only ◊ Passion of the Weiss ◊ Destination: Out ◊ A Grammar (Nitsuh Abebe) ◊ Ill Doctrine ◊ Petites planètes ◊ LPWTF? ◊ Endless Banquet Torture Garden ◊ Gorilla vs Bear ◊ Herohill ◊ Clouds of Evil ◊ The Dolby Apposition ◊ Awesome Tapes from Africa ◊ Molars ◊ Mile Endings Daytrotter ◊ Matana Roberts ◊ Pitchfork Reviews Reviews ◊ i like you [podcast] Musicophilia ◊ Freedom Blues ◊ Nicola Meighan ◊ radiolab [podcast] plethoric pundrigrions Wattled Smoky Honeyeater ◊ The Clear-Minded Creative Hungry Oyster Horses Think White Hotel Then Play Long (Marcello Carlin) ◊ Uno Moralez Coming Up For Air (Matt Forsythe) ftrain my love for you is a stampede of horses It's Nice That Marathonpacks ◊ Song, by Toad ◊ In Focus AMASS BLOG Inventory Waxy WTF [podcast] Masalacism ◊ The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross) ◊ Goldkicks ◊ My Daguerreotype Boyfriend The Hood Internet ◊ things we like in Montreal eat: st-viateur bagel café olimpico Euro-Deli Batory le pick up lawrence au pied de cochon mamie clafoutis tourtière australienne la paryse ripples bilboquet vices & versa + paltoquet, cocoa locale, idée fixe, patati patata, qin hua dumplings, momoi, meu-meu, romodos, patisserie guillaume, patisserie rhubarbe, kazu, maison du nord, cuisine szechuan &c shop: phonopolis drawn + quarterly + bottines &c shows: casa + sala + the hotel blue skies turn black montreal improv passovah productions le cagibi cinema du parc cinérobothèque (maga)zines The Believer The Morning News I (Heart) Music McSweeney's State The Skinny community ILX |
