You might wonder why I would preface a post about Pop Montreal announcements with a photo of a white dog sporting a red collar. The answer is because that dog has a 12 million dollar trust fund that’s why. Hotel heiress Leona Helmsley left the fund to her beloved dog after she passed away a few weeks ago.

Anyways, some of the headliners include Fever Ray, Jay Reatard and of course Yo La Tengo. It’s just a taste of what’s to come this October.

Also Sufjan Stevens is having a rare performance in Montreal during the festival but not associated with it. His entire tour is already sold out, but I thought I’d mention that anyways.

Yo La Tengo – Little Eyes (zshare)

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I missed this wonderful cover of Islands In The Stream by Feist and The Constantines when I posted the original and the Mya/ODB version a few weeks ago. A friend of mine caught my mistake and here it is for you. It has much different vibe; being slow and maybe less romantic. Above is a fingerpooting, (drawing) done for me based on a three word request (Business man riding werewolf) over twitter. To get your own personalised fingerpooting just send a three word tweet here.

Feist and the Constantines – Islands In The Stream (zshare)

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Last evening Phoenix played a sold out crowd at La Tulipe in Montreal. The set was extremely tight and their on stage sound matched the fullness of the album almost verbatim. Thankfully they had a few extended jams as well to make it worth seeing live. They seem to be using session drummers still but it worked fine. I took this video of the band performing the song 1901 from the new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

Phoenix – Lasso (zshare)

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This week is probably going to be sparse on posts. I’m in LA for my very first E3 and so far it’s been great. I’ll keep you the site posted on any music related activities that go on. So far Jay Z and Eminem have done a set for the DJ hero franchise and DJ Z Trip.

Remember the Girl Problems mixtape we put you on about? Check him out tomorrow night at Blue Dog 3958 St Lo. Decembertron I’ve been promised, will be a party. You might even catch either one of us stumbling around the dance floor.

HGHLY TGGBL Presents: DECEMBERTRON
hosted by THE AIDAN NULMAN (on his birthday no less!)

with

GIRL PROBLEMS (The SQUEEZE + HGHLY TGGBL)
www.myspace.com/doyouhavegirlproblems

KID LEGIT (The SQUEEZE + BRINADA)
www.myspace.com/legitproductions

LA DÉBAUCHE (KNIGHTRIDERS + ROOFTOPFISTFIGHTS)
www.rooftopfistfights.com

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doors at 10pm
$5
(free if you rsvp “attending” on this event)

The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. By that I mean, there was no demise, just a hap hazard migration of servers and inconvenient bout of sickness. Anyways, the blog is back up and running and guess who else is back? Outkast.
Big Boi said it himself.

“The South got something to say, and we gonna keep on talking,”

That’s right we can all expect three albums from Outkast in 2009. One as Oukast and two solo albums from Andre 3000 and Big Boi. Here’s and older but unappreciated track featuring collaboration between Andre 3000 and Norah Jones.

Andre 3000 (feat. Norah Jones) – Take off your cool (zshare)

So, I have two mid-terms today. Just listen to this, the latest from L.A.’s Royal Rumble. They’re hitting Coda Club this Friday, again from our friends HGHLY TGGBLE. Here’s the event on the book.

CODA CLUB
4119 St Lo
Royal Rumble +132 BPM & La Débauche (Knightriders)+ Duvall
5$
10:30pm

Royal Rumble – Teenagers in Tokyo Rmx (zshare)

This friday Coda Club is hosting an old Chi town favourite for ya’ll. Flosstradamus hasn’t been around our city since the last time they played Coda. One of the select few acts that have kept me at a bar until closing. They know how to throw a party, so don’t miss it. It’s being hosted by HGHLY TGGBL and here’s the event on the book. For those of you who – gasp – don’t plan your social life that way,

Friday Oct 18
Coda Club 4119 st lo
Flosstradamus
Duval
8$ before midnight more after
Bloc Party – Mercury [Flosstradamus Remix] (zshare)

So before the upcoming Ratatat album LP3 has even been released, we’ve been graced with a remix of Falcon Jab by LA’s Them Jeans. hit it.

Ratatat – Falcon Jab [Them Jeans Remix] (zshare)

I was lucky enough to sit down for an interview with the man himself, Jason Beck aka Chilly Gonzales aka The one eye’d Jew. The interview was for a feature which will appear in the July/August issue of Snap! Magazine. Right from the soundcheck, to the interview, to the show itself, i knew was in for something else. The show was a seamless blend of power pop grandeur, classical solo’s, comedy and rap. That’s right i said seamless. The above video is one of his piano solo’s in a video i took while i was there, sorry its so far away, i couldn’t figure out the zoom on the camera until a few minutes later.