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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The details of Of Montreal's upcoming follow-up to 2008's "Skeletal Lamping" are yet to be revealed but some news about it was released by the band on their twitter, that they will be working on their new album with Jon Brion. With just the words: Just had a rad meeting...Click the link to read more
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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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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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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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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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The VIP/PRESS pass gets you close to the music, usually the pit for the first seven minutes of a band’s set. This weekend with some finagling the power of the VIP got us on stage for one of the best sets at the second annual Pitchfork Music Festival. Held on the west side of Chicago in a neighborhood you could get shot in ten years ago, the three-day Pitchfork Music Festival was almost forced t.
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Holy crap it's been a shit long time since I've posted/wanted to post anything at all. But this is just too damn awesome to pass up. I'm sure you know these crazy bastards. And their crazy awesomeness. Well, the kindly folks over at "You Ain't No Picasso":http://youaintnopicasso.com/, a pretty bad ass indie music blog, if you're into that sort of thing....They've compiled a whole buttload of O...
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Thanks to the guys at the E6 Townhall for this one. Of Montreal are just one of the great bands jumping into Yo Gabba Gabba this year. They'll be joining MGMT and the Roots on this year's guest lineup. But the difference between Of Montreal and the rest is that we have to wait to hear [...]
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If you've not guessed by now I'm a fan of covers, I always got an eye peeled as they are sometimes hard to find. If you are a fan of the group ~ Of Montreal ~ and you like covers have I got a killer site for you !check it out at http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/01/30/a-collection-of-of-montreal-covers/it's a collection of all live covers and in one spot !Dig IT !
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"Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes NAKED!":http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/2007/2/22/NSFW_Of_Montreals_Kevin_Barnes_NAKED#41308Pitchfork briefly changes name to PornforkPitchforkFebruary 22, 2007Oh my. You never know what might happen at an Of Montreal show these days. Random cover songs, costume changes, stage props, audience confrontations...full-frontal nudity?Pitchfork reader Ian Foley att...
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