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POP Montreal Announces First Headliners, More

David Bevan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:14:11 +0000

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.

Merge Records’ XX Anniversary Party Just Got Much, Much Better

David Bevan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:27:59 +0000

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.

Merge Records Releases XX Line-Up With Conor, Spoon, Superchunk And More

Brianne Sullivan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:14:47 +0000

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.

The festival — XXMerge as they’ve dubbed it — is set to take place on July 22 through the 26, in Carrboro, N.C. at the Cat’s Cradle and one night at UNC. Along with the previously mentioned headliners, M. Ward, Spoon, Conor Oberst, The Rosebuds, Destroyer, Guv’ner, Polvo, Pipe and The Broken West, are all scheduled to perform at the event. More bands will be added to the line up at a later date, and we’re hoping we’ll get to see the Arcade Fire or Camera Obscura add their musical stylings to the already stacked line up.