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Special Issue
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Fringe ArtsOpaque Pop Melancholy
It comes to you as if in a dream, the faint glimmer of manipulated piano brushing past as you sink deeper into the blackness. You’ll Never Get to Heaven emits ambient melancholy, remnants of pop vocals embedding themselves in murky haze and crackle.
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Fringe ArtsMath Blasters
Math in itself may not be something to look forward to. Math rock, however, is a different story.
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Fringe ArtsWhat You Really, Really Want
If you were alive in the ’90s, you know who the Spice Girls are—they were inescapable.
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Two Saxxy Gentlemen
Jazz might be the last genre you’d expect to see at POP Montreal. After all, some might say it’s best reserved for middle-aged couples sipping wine in tasteful-yet-stuffy establishments, not for the unwashed youth at one of the city’s biggest indie festivals. Saxsyndrum is challenging the status quo by merging electro dance music with sweet saxophone licks to revitalize jazz in a whole new way.
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Fringe ArtsA Little Interview
Laurel Sprengelmeyer, better known by her musical alias Little Scream, arrives at the sleepy coffee shop in flurry of activity.*
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Fringe ArtsThe Faces Behind the Fashion
As Coco Chanel famously put it, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only—fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, and the way we live.” Nowhere is this concept more apparent than on the streets of our cosmopolitan city, and POP will be flaunting the best of the best in their seventh annual fashion show.
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Fringe ArtsViet Cong Out of Cowtown
There’s nothing like a 50-show tour to put a new band through its paces.
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Fringe ArtsSugar in the Rap Game
Cakes da Killa (alter ego of Rashard Bradshaw) is on the rise, and that’s not just a baking pun.
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Voyeuristic Psychic Vampirism
The works of Croatian filmmaker Dalibor Baric cannot be easily ascribed a genre. Avant-garde, futuristic and experimental come to mind, but after watching a few of his short films, one would more readily believe that they belong in a bizarre category all their own.
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