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POP Montréal is celebrating 25 years of DIY and artistic vision. The festival remains an international beacon of indie music culture; spending several evenings there is invariably enlightening, enriching, exciting, and even liberating! It’s truly an event that celebrates the intercultural and welcoming nature of Montreal life. That’s why we’ve selected three daily recommendations from Pop MTL’s head programmer and founder, Dan Seligman. Here are his Friday September 25th three picks.
Infinite Coles, Rialto Hall, 7:30 PM
There’s some good ones here on Friday. I start with Infinite Coles at Rialto. We’re doing like a drag ball, and to start off the night, we’re bringing in Infinite Coles, who is a multidisciplinary queer rapper, he kind of blends hip hop and house and is very innovative. And he happens to be Ghostface Killah’s son. Nothing to do with Wu-Tang Clan, macho, you know, like, I don’t think they have the greatest relationship. But actually, he’s a really great rapper like his father, but kind of on a different, different tip. Of course. Infinite Coles considers himself as a “sonic chameleon,” he blends house, hip-hop, and soul in a way to challenge genre and gender conventions. Following the 2021 EP Destiny, Coles will release his debut album, SweetFaceKillah, on December 5.
JayaHadADream, Le Ministère, 8PM
My second pick on Friday is a discovery I made at South by Southwest this year. Jamaican-Irish rapper JayaHadADream, kind of throwback old school 90s hip hop / grime style, like very interesting lyrical flow. Very cool! And she’s played like a bunch of the bigger festivals in the UK and just last week was featured in Colors. You know, they are on YouTube and Instagram and they always pick these really interesting artists to do these songs. So she was just featured. And, yeah, I saw her at South by Southwest… The festival was a little underwhelming this year in terms of the musical programming and like they changed their format a little this year. So I was kind of disappointed overall because I usually will see quite a few interesting new things. But JayaHadADream was definitely one of the top things. So I got in touch with her. Yeah, it’s kind of an underground hip hop bill. On this same program, there will be Kamilou, a Révélation Radio Canada revelation this year.
So the third one is Montreal’s Tachie Menson. I think she’s like originally from London and now based in Montreal after living in New York. She kind of has an international style like she’s a really interesting artist and very unknown. I don’t know how old she is. It’s kind of like 70. Like, kind of soul singer songwriter. Kind of eclectic pop music. She’s kind of self-taught like DIY, R&B, and soul music. Self-taught guitarist but she also studied classical piano in university, she’s actually pursuing a masters degree in Sound Recording. Very nice, very interesting.
