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Event Information:
Pop
Montreal is an annual music festival
occurring in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada in the early fall, usually at
the end of September or the
beginning of October. More than 400
acts are scheduled to play in more
than 50 venues across the city,
mostly located in the Mile End area.
Along with music, Pop Montreal has
music-related film (Film Pop), art
events (Art Pop) as well as a
conference and a cultural fair
called Puces Pop. The initial
festival in 2002 saw 80 musical acts
performing in 40 venues around Saint
Laurent Boulevard.
The
name of the festival was inspired by
the Halifax Pop Explosion. Since its
creation by Daniel Seligman, Noelle
Sorbara, and Peter Rowan in
2002,[4][5] Pop Montreal has
presented concerts of important
rock, indie-rock, alternative, hip
hop and folk artists from North
America and Europe as Beck, Billy
Childish, Interpol, TTC or Franz
Ferdinand along with local favorites
The Dears, Les Breastfeeders, We Are
Wolves, Arcade Fire and The
Unicorns. The Halifax Pop Explosion
is a music festival that takes place
every fall, two weeks after
Thanksgiving, in Halifax Nova
Scotia, Canada.
Founded in 1993, the Halifax Pop
Explosion has actually been three
different events that are now
remembered as one long standing
event. The original Halifax Pop
Explosion, which was operated as
private business from 1993–1995, was
created as a platform to celebrate
Halifax's new found fame as the
"Seattle of the North" and home of
Canadian grunge, as well as to
promote local bands such as Sloan,
Jale, The Super Friendz and Thrush
Hermit. "Halifax Pop Explosion" also
came to be adopted as the overall
name of the Halifax music scene as a
whole.
This years’ line up includes:
Lil B
Grizzly Bear
Chilly Gonzales
Tim Hecker
Jacob Lusk and the R Kelly All-Stars
K'naan
Patrick Wolf
Peaches DJ Extravaganza
POP vs Jock
Deerhoof
Gang Gang Dance
Gotye
Nicky Da B
Zammuto
David Byrne / Win Butler talk
Dam Funk
Venus X
Jimmy "Bo" Horne
Andre Williams
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Cate Le Bon
The Sadies
Hot Snakes
Dirty Three
Julia Holter
Antibalas
Laetitia Sadier
Bertrand Burgalat
The Soft Moon
Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
Ben Howard,
Buke and Gase
I Break Horses
Katatonia
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