With all the fallout for Of Montreal's song "Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games" being used in an Outback Steakhouse commercial as well as a recent T-Mobile video shoot which featured the band, fans are learning that the group is making a effort to, well, cash in.In a open letter to Stereogum.com, frontman Kevin Barnes has made an attempt to at least explain himself. Are you a sell o...
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Off the bat, I should state that Jon Brion is a brilliant producer/composer, so I'm pretty excited about JB teaming up with Of Montreal again. Earlier this year, he leant his talents to the band for An Eluardian Instance AKA the Jon Brion EP. The disc featured Brion's reinterpretations of two songs from full-length Skeletal Lamping, "An Eluardian Instance" and "Gallery Piece," both of which wer...
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The list of nominees for the 2008 PLUG awards, dedicated to recognizing media and music in the independent community, has been announced. The top nominees for this year are Of Montreal, Battles, Dan Deacon. The chick from Bat For Lashes pops up a few times on the ballot, as do Radiohead (they're indie now), Arcade Fire, The National and Spoon. The 2008 awards show will take place March 6th in N...
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Off the bat, I should state that Jon Brion is a brilliant producer/composer, so I’m pretty excited about JB teaming up with Of Montreal again. Earlier this year, he leant his talents to the band for An Eluardian Instance AKA the Jon Brion EP. The disc featured Brion’s reinterpretations of two songs from full-length Skeletal [...]
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Of Montreal have announced next year's Skeletal Lamping tour dates which begin in Europe and then move to dates in Australia. But before they could go to Europe they still have some US Tour dates left through November and December including a New Year's Eve Party in Athens, Georgia and they are going to play on Letterman on December 18. They will also be releasing a new EP called "Jon Brion R...
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The complete line-up for Austin, Texas’ forthcoming Fun Fun Fun Festival has been released.The two-day bash is set to take place at Austin’s Waterloo Park and will see performances by Of Montreal, Crystal Castles, and The Cool Kids.Les Savy Fav, Health, and No Age are also on the bill for the event.Early bird tickets for the festival are on sale now for only $67.50 (regular price $75).For more
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Of Montreal have created a new video for their track 'Suffer For Fashion'. It's the second video from their album ??Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer???(Polyvinyl)."CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO":CHFrom the band's blog: Of Montreal's new video for Suffer For Fashion (lovingly made by Sigrid Astrup)will debut on MTV2's Subterranean THIS Sunday at roughly 1AM(so technically Monday... ;)check i...
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Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, Bryan Poole, and Matt Dawson stopped in at Spinner.com and performed an acoustic set of Bowie covers with a few tunes from their latest release, ??Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?? to boot.It's reported that they didn't want to talk about their Outback steakhouse jingle, from a television ad. Rock enthusiast Ian H. explained his take on the jingle as "lame, but ...
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Recently, in Vegas the singer of the group Of Montreal preformed part of the the band's set mostly or entirely nude. There was a certain degree of backlash, online at least, and in fact I recall reading a comment that someone made on mog calling it a 'dark day' in music. It's hard to discern how much sarcasm was involved in that off the cuff comment, (as well as a lot of other stuff from you mo...
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Check them out On The Late Show with Letterman tonight, 11:35 EST/PST. They'll perform "An Eluardian Instance" off Skeletal Lamping.
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The hardest band name to insert into a sentence, Of Montreal are embarking upon a European tour starting right about January 2009. The band are currently on a monstrous U. S tour to pump up the release of their new single/DVD.
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Prince's classic album Purple Rain turns 25 years old this year. To commemorate that milestone SPIN magazine has compiled a track-for-track tribute to the record they're calling Purplish Rain.The album will be available for free download to SPIN and SPIN.com subscribers on June 23rd.Here's a look at the tracks and who's covering what:"Let's Go Crazy" RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS"Take Me With U" SHARON
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Summary: Blown away! I'm still slightly bruised from seeing Of Montreal deliver a dazzling performance, that proved more than worthy of the enormous glitter ball that dangles above the main floor at the Koko nightclub, in Camden London on this their only UK date of their tour (apart from an acoustic set at Rough Trade East earlier last week).Following a no show from supporting act The Wave Pic...
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I always seem to be one step behind these guys when they perform, although I did see Kevin Barnes DJ a SXSW party a couple of years ago, this one is going on my schedule for that weekend. Of Montreal play the Southern Comfort Stage at 8:45 p.m. Saturday night at The Monolith Music Festival.The brainchild of singer/guitarist Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal was among the second wave of bands to emerge ...
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What a disappointing week of releases. See for yourself below:Kenny Chesney - Lucky Old SunHank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel ProudMary Mary - The SoundLee Ann Womack - Call Me CrazyOf Montreal - Sketelal LampingLabelle - Back To NowBrett Dennen - Hope for the HopelessSara Groves - O Holy NightEscape the Fate - This War is OursBrian Eno and Robert Fripp - No PussyfootingJazzanova - Of All of...
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