Sarah Liss reports from Pop Montreal. Read her daily reports!
Islands in the stream?
Sunday 2nd, Oct. 2005
Sunday 2nd, Oct. 2005
MONTREAL - The best lesson I ever learned about multi-venue rock festivals was to forget about seeing all those bands everyone else wants to see. This may strike one as both a no-brainer and an idiot's solution. Uh, duh? Of course the super-hyped Next Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to...
They shoot horses, don't they?
Saturday 1st, Oct. 2005
Saturday 1st, Oct. 2005
MONTREAL - Shockingly, the well-oiled machine (or "oily machine, but I don't know how well it works," as the inimitable Josh Dolgin, aka, heeb-hop king Socalled, quipped during one show) that is Pop Montreal kept things moving so smoothly that I barely noticed any population-related glitches during the showcases. Still,...
Feel the Heat with Somebody...
Friday 30th, Sep. 2005
Friday 30th, Sep. 2005
MONTREAL - Since it started about four years ago, I've always felt like Pop Montreal represented everything a good music festival could -- and should -- be. Organized by slacker music obsessives who've inextricably tangled themselves in the local scene, the fest consistently features a slate packed with way more...
