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by Darcy MacDonald

The best rap shows and dance parties this weekend, just ahead of the September festival storm.

shinePOP, OUMF, MRCY — wow, September in Montreal sounds like 50 Shades of Batman & Robin.

As mentioned last week there are festivals for days between now and the fall harvest. Today’s column will get you through the weekend and then on Monday, check back as a round up my rather considerable list of POP picks before the annual shindig gets underway next Wednesday.

Friday: Tonight from 6:30 p.m., catch Anticipateur Pic Pacquette, Wasiu, Dead Obies, Eman & VLooper and headlining hip hop legend Grandmaster Flash at day two of OUMF.

Follow that up at the SAT’s Temps Perdu Partage, where résidents Tony Deziel and B-Sider receive special guest Toast Dawg.

Or maybe you’d rather head to Blue Dog for HXRMNY, with guests Grandbuda and Noo-Bap.

Saturday: Back to OUMF for TO jazz bastards BadBadNotGood, beats from Montreal’s CRi and a DJ set by Pierre Kwenders, and more. Check set times here.

Meanwhile, though, Weekend at the Peel Basin — uh, nice name, organizers — puts on Clay & Friends, the Posterz and High Klassified, for five bucks, from 5 p.m. ’til 11 p.m.

Also, Walla P and Dr.MaD celebrate two years of Voyage Funktastique with a patio BBQ leading into a night of dancing with surprise guests and host Marley C.

So that oughtta tide you over until Monday and my POP picks. Until then, party like a rockstar, baby. ■

 

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by Darcy MacDonald

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Darcy MacDonald has been with Cult MTL since day one, a decade ago. Which means today, he’s a middle-aged white guy (albeit one more interested in other people’s ideas than in his own). He was previously a columnist and reporter for Montreal Mirror, and has also created content (FKA “written”) for RBMA, Noisey, Montreal Gazette, The National Post and probably some other great places he’s forgotten about. Music, culture, community and miscellaneous questions in search of answers all come across his desk, sooner or later.