Kevin Winter, Getty The Arcade Fire might not have performed at this year's Pop Montreal festival, but they sure were ubiquitous characters throughout the week. First was an art exhibit entitled The Art of "The Suburbs" which offered people a chance to see the work behind the cover art of the Grammy-winning album with a replicated interactive ...

YAMANTAKA Facebook Friday night at Pop Montreal saw quite a few big acts filling venues from the highly anticipated David Byrne and St. Vincent at Eglise St. Jonh Baptiste to rapper Lil B making a rare Canadian stop at Club Soda. But Polaris Music Prize followers would've most likely had their eye on the debut of short lister YAMANTAKA // ...

Simon Joyner, Getty Arguably the most anticipated show at Pop Montreal this year was the sold-out Grimes gig. Prefaced by many as a "shit show", many festival pass holders and ticket-less fans scrambled to get there early and grab a spot inside Montreal's Club Soda to catch the Polaris Prize contender. Opening the night were friends and ...

Frank Yang, Chromewaves Pop Montreal kicked off Wednesday night with a slew of free shows, and even though this might be the city most known for the Arcade Fire, it was the members of the Toronto collective Broken Social Scene who dominated the night. Brendan Canning manned the DJ booth at the festival's opening party whereas Justin Peroff's ...

Roger Sargent Don't expect British band The Vacciness to stop churning out albums any time soon. Having released their debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? last year, the London four-piece is already back with another album entitled Come of Age. "We work fast, but not unusually fast," guitarist Freddie Cowan tells Spinner. ...

Charli XCX Facebook Most artists sign to a record label, work on an album and release said album within a year or two -- it's the whirlwind treatment of artists that's become a protocol in the age of the Internet. But, for UK goth-pop artist Charli XCX, it's been approximately five years since she signed to a label and she's still working on ...

Of Monsters and Men Icelandic folk-pop band Of Monsters and Men were recently nominated for their first MTV Video Music Award in the Art Direction category for their video "Little Talks." It took them a while before they caught wind of this news, though. In fact, it wasn't until the Icelandic press broke it to them actually. "He did an ...