With hundreds of artists still yet to be announced, the Pop Montreal International Music Festival released a small slice of its upcoming line-up today. We’re already jazzed. Feast on early highlights: Os Mutantes, Fever Ray, Faust, DJ/Rupture, Destroyer, Teenage Jesus & the jerks, Thee Oh Sees, and Dinosaur Jr. sharing the stage with Butthole surfers. Stay tuned for even more reasons to make that trip to Montreal at the end of September this year.

The good people at Merge Records have been gearing up recently for their big 20th anniversary celebration, an event that, like Sub Pop’s last summer, will celebrate the label’s entire discography. To kick the festivities off, The Triangle Youth Ballet will be performing Merge In Motion, a choreographed contemporary dance performance set to the music of the Arcade Fire, Spoon, Destroyer, Caribou, Polvo, The Magnetic Fields and a host of other roster standouts. The show’s going down at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC on July 18th with a special performance by the Rosebuds. Valuable ticket information can be found riiiiight here.

The line up for the five-day-long Merge Records 20th Anniversary Celebration has been announced, and the event to bound to be nothing but stellar with headliners like label-founders Superchunk topping the bill.
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