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.
