PopCast #28: Anything Can Happen When You're Walking Down the Street (post-Pop pt.1, m4a version)

Well here we are again. It's only been a week since Pop Montreal wrapped-up in terms of the actual physical geographical event, but the seeds it planted have only just begun to sprout. If haven't already done so, make sure you investigate some of the great coverage of the festival that was done this year. Prefix Mag, Chromewaves, Zoilus and Midnight Poutine all have great coverage. Even David Byrne has a few things to say about his trip up...

PopCast #28: Anything Can Happen When You're Walking Down the Street (post-Pop pt. 1) (m4a version)

What I'll be doing starting with this episode is a series of enhances podcasts meant to captures bits and pieces of the festival as I experienced it. There was no better place to start than with Jesse Jackson and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. I ran into Jesse on the steps outside the big church on Rachel where the big Gonzales organ show was going on. I had already been down to the Jack Dylan vernissage by this point and seen great sets by Miracle Fortress and Dishwasher, and heard about the warm and heartening presence of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, whom we'd meet up with...later in the evening. (Elliott, incidently, was a good friend of Jesse's father, a painter named Harry Jackson who you can probably look up in the liner notes to Freewheelin'...).

A special thanks to Emily Gan for all the amazing pictures she took of Jesse during that ride he took with us in the trunk of a packed car on the way to see Ramblin' Jack. If you're not getting the enhanced version of the podcast here, you're missing out....And yes, most of this episode was recorded via the small trunk of a car.

There's just way too much of this kind of material here to blast through it in one urgent news-of-the-moment go, so I'll be rolling them out as regularly as I can until all of a sudden Pop Montreal 07 is upon us (accepting submissions November 1st!).

PopCast #27: Men That Aren't There (m4a version)

In this episode: flash and flame...new Miracle Fortress, Akron/Family, Miracle Weapon/Magic Fortress doing John Cale, Magic Weapon, Sunset Rubdown.

PopCast #27: Men That Aren't There (m4a version)

At Pop:

Miracle Fortess: Oct. 4th @ 7pm - L'Autre Gallerie & Oct. 6th @ 10pm - Les Saints
Akron/Family: Oct. 7th @ 11pm - Le National
Sunset Rubdown: Oct. 8th @ 11pm - Ukranian Federation

Missing voices, the man who wasn't there, music, music, music, thank god. Something had to give, something had to get done, and I'm glad it came out like this. Damned if I was going to sit around and not let new episodes roll out in heavy numbers with the festival basically underway in less than two days. So to quicken the pace of both the production and consumption of the PopCast (so that as many artists can make it onto episodes prior to the fest as possible) I DO NOT APPEAR on this episode. I also think it's one of the best PopCasts yet. There's still special stuff happening within, and the m4a format yields more extra goodies, so plug it into your iTunes/pod.

I'll probably pop back onto the next few episodes here and there, but they will continue to be these condensed bursts of music, either linked thematically or by event.

This one centers around Graham Van Pelt (Miracle Fortress) and Jordon Robson Cramer (of Magic Weapon and Sunset Rubdown) stuff, as promised last episode. Includes their collaborative cover of John Cale's Hanky Panky Nohow. Also features two of the most exciting acts appearing at Pop: Akron/Family and Sunset Rubdown.