The Commonwealth Conundrum show is going POP, POP, POP this week!!! Rebecca Munroe is super psyched to chat with Dean Tzenos of the amazing industrial surf-gaze band Odonis Odonis... plus the Kestrels What a POP'ed out show! It all happens this Wednesday, September 19th at 4pm!

Odonis Odonis are playing POP Montreal this Thursday, September 20th at the CFC.

Kestrels are playing POP Montreal this Friday, September 21st, at Barfly.

The Commonwealth Conundrum can be heard every Wednesday from 4-6pm.

So besides telling you to check out my buddies in Echo Beach (swirly, drugged out synth sounds w/ loops and ghostly vocals) @ Royal Phoenix on Thursday, and Young Lungs (buzzy post-punk garage pop) with Kestrels (exhilarating shoegaze guitar rock revivalists) @ Barfly on Friday, here are some of what I think are the best picks for you to catch at this year's POP Montreal festivities.

I moved out of the plateau to get out of the bullshit frosh celebrations that McGill kids hold dear to them as the "best week of their lives". I'm also in a band, so we had to find a way to live and play loud music without disturbing anybody.  Put those two stipulations into priority, and you'll probably end up in St Henri like I have.