Sled Island Celebrates Pop Montreal’s 10th Anniversary

Sled Island is fortunate enough to be at Pop Montreal, starting this week, to help celebrate their 10th anniversary as an international music festival! Pop Montreal has continually put on an incredible festival full of coveted, influential artists combined with up and coming bands from across Canada and around the world. For these reasons, and many more we’ll always look up to them, and can’t wait to take in the celebration!

We are very proud to present Purity Ring + Guests at Divian Orange on Friday, September 23, Doors at 9:00pm at Pop Montreal. Purity Ring is the futuristic pop project of Corin Roddick and Megan James from Edmonton that made their debut at Sled Island 2011. The band erupted out of the gates in early 2011 with its first single “Ungirthed” b/w “Lofticries”, released on notable UK label Transparent, garnering praise from tastemakers such as Pitchfork (who awarded Best New Track to the A-side), the Guardian, and the FADER. Check out their brand new track “Belispeak“ being released via Fat Possum Records on a 7” split with our constant favs BRAIDS.

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Any bands interested in applying to Sled Island now is the time to do so! You can apply via Sonicbids at the link right here: Sled Island Festival 2012