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[Contest] Win Two VIP Passes to POP Montreal

Here’s your chance to win 2 vip passes to POP Montreal. This year’s gonna be a super fantastic thrill ride featuring such luminous figures as Burt Bacharach, Irma Thomas, The Persuasions, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Dodos, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Ratatat, Akron/Family, Socalled, Sam Shalabi, Julie Doiron and a lot more including: Kids Pop, Art Pop, Film Pop, our Symposium and other POPs that you need to be in Montreal to uncover.

Atmosphere Announce “Paint The Nation Tour”

After selling out their previous tour “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint Your City Gold” Atmosphere are getting ready to head back out on another huge tour.

They’ve already announced over 20 dates (see below) and will be bringing Abstract Rude, DJ Rare Groove, and Blueprint out with them. It’s unconfirmed if they’ll be touring with that massive rain stick from the “Lemons” tour. One can only hope it gets lost somewhere along the way.

Ticket sales begin August 6th.

Lollapalooza 2008, Day 3: Saul Williams (Citi Stage)

Our favorite poet / actor / musician Saul Williams (cover story, ALARM Magazine #20) played Lollapalooza today, complete with face makeup, feathers (which he also distributed with great success to the crowd), a DJ, a keyboard player (wearing a cape), and a guitar player in a reflective silver suit (note to guitar player: next time you play an outdoor show in the middle of summer in Chicago, you might want to lose the tin-foil-hot-dog-oven look).

Lollapalooza 2008, Day 1: A Diverse Collection Of Garbage

Lollapalooza is in full force today, with lines going three blocks strong. Today is completely sold out, with 75,000 attendees expected ($80 one-day tickets are still available for Saturday and Sunday). We’ve done you a favor and sorted out all of Day One’s artists into this handy guide. Stay tuned for more updates.

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The Melvins: Godfathers Of Grunge Still Going Strong

When Nirvana Hit It Big In 1991, The Melvins’ fate, for better or for worse, was up with their suddenly world-famous neighbors. But laboring ever since as “the other band from Aberdeen” doesn’t seem to have engendered much bitterness in the band.

Mono Completes Summer Tour

Our summer tour has now come to an end. Thank you to everyone who came out to the shows.
We were really happy to share our music with all of you.
We would like to say a special thank you to Nookie (Jakarta, Indonesia),
Joris, Lauri and friends (Tartu, Estonia), 茶茶 and Rin Rin (Taipei, Taiwan),
Norisan and smash (Fuji Rock) for all of your support.
Now we are taking a break from the road and will continue writing songs for the new record.
Enjoy the rest of your summers and we hope to see you all again someday.

Love, MONO (from Myspace Blog)