POP Montreal 2024: The First Names!
POP Montreal 2024 – September 25 to 29, 2024
Salut y’all, c’est almost le fun! POP Montreal is getting ready for edition lucky # 23. Once again POP is coming with the freshest, coolest and most fascinating musical selection in town! There will be legends including the prolific gospel folk singer Iris DeMent, the funky godfather of Cash Money Records productions Mannie Fresh, new age folk visionary Beverly Glenn-Copeland and new wave Parisian icons Edith Nylon. POP will also be presenting two foundational Montreal pop bands Stars and The Dears with a double feature performance of their albums Set Yourself on Fire and No Cities Left each celebrating 20th anniversaries. Another special event is Skratch Bastid’s BBQ coming to Montreal for the first time. Along with the legends, POP will host the incredible new sounds of up-and-coming breakouts like John Glacier, YHWH Nailgun, Luna Li, Claire Rousay, Still House Plants, Distraction4ever and Nabihah Iqbal. Plus for the grand finale, we will have a once-in-a-lifetime concert La Route Chante, celebrating the unique and singular voice of the saintly Lhasa de Sela with many special guests including Calexico, Feist and Klo Pelgag.
So let’s get high and soar like Air Jordan.
Daniel Seligman, Creative Director – POP Montréal
Discover the lineup with comments from our programming team:
Afternoon Bike Ride chill tempo bedroom pop for dreamers
Alix Fernz synthy urgent post-punk
Astrid Sonne broken beat cello, hooks and fragments
Beverly Glenn-Copeland legendary songsmith of new-age folk futurism
Bob Vylan London UK poetic grime punk
Calexico post-Tejano folk legends play an intimate show in a secret location
Cassandra Jenkins sophisticated jazz-laced pop
Claire Rousay post-genre emo pop genius
distraction4ever broken post-punk ready to break
DJ Nu-Mark founding member of Jurassic 5, Nu-Mark was a god to HMV staff in the early aughts
Edith Nylon Parisian new wave legends!
Egyptian Lover THE OLD SCHOOL funk is alive
Emilie Kahn Harp infused shimmering melancholic pop
Erika Angell open-hearted dark avant-garde vocal meditations
Fernie Torch singer with style
Freak Heat Waves dubbed out psych punk
Homeshake alternative CD-era bedroom grunge
Iris DeMent prolific American folk legend singing the gospel
Jigsaw Youth grunge metal with a backend
John Glacier rap game aphex twin
Juana Molina legendary Argentinian neofolk, experimental pop provocateur
Kroy hypnotic avantpop
La Route Chante Lhasa de Sela tribute show – POP Montreal and Opak Productions, in collaboration with Lhasa’s family, present a night with members of Lhasa’s last two bands bringing her songs to life, with performances by Feist, Calexico, Juana Molina, Silvana Estrada, Klô Pelgag, Myriam Gendron, Bibi Club, Helena Deland, La Force, The Barr Brothers, Laurence Anne, Yves Desrosiers, Samantha de la Vega, and the Stone Bonnet Choir, under the musical direction of Joe Grass.
Laura Krieg an icicle synth and cold-wave party
Los Bitchos garage inflected psych cumbia
Luna Li bedroom pop if the bedroom was on a celestial moon intersecting with Jupiter’s 3 suns in the year 2084
Mannie Fresh Cash Money godfather, producer of the funkiest southern rap
Marnie Stern Rolling Stone’s 188th greatest guitarist of all time, #1 for us
Mimi O’bonsawin Mimi creates a groove universe exploring Abenaki, Franco and Anglo folk
Mother Tongues cyber-psych Toronto rock dreamers
Nabihah Iqbal experimental musician, producer, DJ, broadcaster from London
Nailah Hunter forward forward-infused mystical ambient folk
NPNP Trio ecstatic meditative electronic inversions
SAM.IITO Samito’s ever-expanding musical universe continues with his latest; ‘Des-Dobramento (Unfolding): Shame Cycle,’ a 4-part song cycle.
Sheenah Ko Dreamy, poppy, poetic. emotional as hell
Silvana Estrada Mexican singe traversing universes of son jaracho, jazz and folk songs
Skratch Bastid the best scratch DJ from Canada doing his BBQ thing
STARS playing Set Yourself On Fire in full
Still House Plants Best new music post-folk nervy magic
Sunset Rubdown the musical equivalent of a delicious creamsicle on a sweltering afternoon in July
The Barr Brothers the two brothers doing their rock magic + maybe a guest or 2?
The Dears playing No Cities Left in full
The Fleshtones iconic garage rock gods with a score to settle
Unessential Oils the inner sonic pieces of Plants and Animals’ Warren Spicer
YHWH Nailgun mind-blowing ineffable noise g-d
Zéa Calla 50% of Montreal band La Fièvre, 100% lofi sucre pop
All reservations, concert info, tickets and passes: here
In the coming months, we will also announce the programming of our Puces POP, Film POP, Art POP, POP Symposium, and Kids POP segments… Stay tuned!
We acknowledge the financial support of FACTOR, the Government of Canada and of Canada’s private radio broadcasters. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Gouvernment du Québec, Ville de Montréal, SODEC and le Conseil des arts de Montréal.
