First off, welcome to new readers from MOG ! I am excited to join a network I hope is full of dynamic music obsessives to share with. This mix is me going full steam bloghouse featuring some favourite tracks off my youtube channel . I`m going to be doing top 20 albums of the year soon. Metronomy - Not Made for Love (ALALAL rmx) of Montreal - Gallery Piece (Mintel Rose remix) Empire of the Sun - Standing on the Shore (Hey Today! Remix) [...]
findley brown last christmas julian casablancas i wish it was christmas today the ethipians ding dong bell the turtles santa and the sidewalk surfer jill barber the christmas song the merry macs christmas cha cha of montreal my favorite christmas in a hundred words or less vince guaraldi trio christmas is coming banu gibson & the new orleans jazz band i'll be home for christmas the awkward stage christmas time is here [...]
A while back in a Guardian interview, when asked who she'd like to work with, Beyonce said that she would love to get the chance to work with Of Montreal or any of the other indie bands that her sister (Solange) has turned her onto recently. Well apparently Kevin Barnes took note of Queen B's request. Last week, the Of Montreal frontman tweeted that he "Started work on a song 4 B." She hasn't contacted him yet, he just wants to be prepared, "just in case." The name of the song is "He'sMyPartyDrug" and it "sounds [...]
The first time Yo Gabba Gabba 's album finds its way through your speakers, you are more creeped out than if you had encountered a grinning clown in a dark alley. It doesn't seem right to listen to it without a tot in tow. Never having seen the Nick, Jr. show, the music on the album is fun and catchy enough, but the lyrics are a true test in how quickly the adult mind registers suggestiveness. From zero to sixty in… yeah. Take [...]
For Fool's Gold it's not about the 12 Days of Christmas, it's about the 8 Nights of Hanukah.
Before I begin awarding the sounds of 2009, i wanted to give a little props to the best eye-candy I've seen. These ten videos clearly stood out to me above the rest of this year's offerings. They are definitely all a million times better than that garbage from Beyonce and Taylor Swift . So, enjoy: 10. Of Montreal : "An Eluardian Instance" This video has just got a really nice, fun vibe to it. The special effects are utilized just right and [...]
From Kevin Barnes's Twitter : "Started work on a song 4 B.not that she's contacted me.just in case.it's called"He'sMyPartyDrug". sounds like The Time meets Four Tet." With the media's play-by-play coverage of this and the invention of Twitter, these two could plausibly crank this thing out into the world before they ever have to do anything crazy like meet or talk on the phone. It's a shame. We hear Athens is lovely this time of year. We're also pretty pumped for the look on Mama Beyonce's face when Kevin and his [...]
2005 opened my eyes to a world of new music. I joined the crew at KZUU over the summer, my first summer back in Pullman working toward my Masters in Business. I'd spend my two-hour show pouring over thousands of obscure albums, looking for anything that might spark my interest. While music had always been a borderline obsession, until now it was just that - borderline. In the days that passed, it became a full-fledged consumption of everything me. There are turning points in all of our lives, and DJing at KZUU was absolutely one [...]
Filed under: News Of Montreal have responded enthusiastically to remarks pop diva Beyonce made last week about the indie band. In an interview with The Guardian , the 'If I Was a Boy' singer said she might be interested in teaming up with the psychedelic pop ensemble. "There's so many people I'd like to work with still, but I'd like to maybe go outside of the box," she told the newspaper. "My sister has put me on to bands like Of Montreal and some other [...]
L'interesse di Beyoncé per il mondo dell' indie non è propriamente una novità. Introdotta dalla sorella Solange , che ha recentemente realizzato una -splendida- cover di "Stillness Is The Move" dei Dirty Projectors (potete ascoltarla qui ) e ha trascinato Beyoncé e Jay-Z al concerto dei Grizzly Bear , l'artista più nominata ai prossimi Grammy Awards sembra stia per lanciarsi seriamente in una serie di collaborazioni con alcuni nomi della musica indipendente. In una recente intervista concessa al Guardian , infatti, Beyoncé ha confessato proprio [...]
Dirty Projectors no Odisséia. Foto do URBe. Vale pedir desculpas por estarmos ausentes nessa semana INTENSA? Valendo ou não, já adianto que os motivos não são menos do que sensacionais. Estamos preparando uma programação mais do que especial para o final de dezembro e começo de janeiro. Só coisa incrível: nossos melhores de 2009, o incrível BR00 (retrospectiva completíssima da música brasileira nos anos 2000 desenvolvida em parceira com o Move That Jukebox e a Revista O Grito!), uma retrospectiva pessoal da década por cada um dos nossos escribas (canções que embalaram [...]
Earlier this week we told you Beyonce expressed a desire to collaborate with beloved weirdo Kevin Barnes and his Of Montreal counterparts. Now Barnes responded by telling Paste "I would be fully psyched to work with her" and saying lots of super nice things about her music and voice. That's cool for Beyonce and all, but our high school band said the same thing about our aspirations to make music with Kevin Barnes and dude never even commented on our blog. Ever. (Via: Paste )
A few months ago, we saw Solange Knowles make a special guest appearance at an of Montreal show, joining the band for a cover of Diana Ross' "Love Hangover." So it's no surprise to learn she's gotten her big sister Beyonce into Kevin Barnes and co.'s addictive antics. In an interview with the Guardian , when asked who she'd like to collaborate with next, the singer had this to say: "There's so many people I'd like to work with still, but I'd like to maybe go outside of the [...]
In a recent interview with The Guardian for their Artist of the Decade feature, Beyonce revealed that she was interested in working with Of Montreal on her next project. Weirdly, it was her sister Solange and not her indie-obsessed hubbie that turned her on to Kevin Barnes and Co. Although with Jay-Z crushing on bands like MGMT these days, maybe this is for the best. We're fairly certain that if any sort of "Electric Feel" meets "Single Ladies" hybrid was ever created the universe might actually explode. And we prefer our universe explosions without psychedelics and headbands thank you... (Via: [...]
After much thought, I decided that I wasn't satisfied with my original list, nor my execution of it. I have done a lot of reviewing and listening over the last few weeks for both the Decade-End and Year-End celebration that you will see here in the coming weeks. This has helped me through the revision and tightening of this list. I will reveal PMA's picks for Best Songs of the Decade in three parts; each part will contain 25 songs that will make up a new episode of the pmaCAST. Here are songs #75 to 51: [...]
What a decade it's been. 2004 was my first year in the so-called Real World ; jobs, car payments, instability everywhere. Things weren't all happy and seemingly upbeat like the mid 90s. After eight months in Seattle, I found myself unemployed and decided it was time for more education. I moved to the greater Portland area and began prep to enter a Masters in Business Administration program, taking night classes at WSU Vancouver and making a frequent trip out to Pullman, where I'd soon attend graduate school. The overall instability and open-your-eyes wake-up calls [...]
The Twelves have released 3 fantastic mixtapes and so far I've posted two and it's been one of the most downloaded files on this site. The time has come to complete the series with the with yet another jewel, Episode II . Aside from Steph Lund's Le Miel du Mois (recently crowned mixtape goddess on The Clink ), I can't say I've heard many mixtapes that can keep my attention for more then a song but this series has absolutely no problem accomplishing that task. I quoted my friend Ben when I posted their last mixtape [...]
Somehow, this review never made it up onto thecolorawesome after the show on July 25th, 2009. It was a great show, so I'm publishing the review, even if it is a few months late. - Paige Of Montreal played the Fox Theater in Oakland last Saturday. I'd been a bit on the fence about going. I'd already seen, shot and reviewed them twice since Skeletal Lamping was released last year. I decided if I could shoot the show I'd go, otherwise I'd take a pass. Lucky for me I [...]
James Huggins has just released a catchy new track, "No No Baby" under the moniker James Husband. It starts out slow, acoustic and low-fi and quickly electrifies and builds into psychedelic yuminess. What can I say? I'm a sucker for a sampled sitar. And the album art is beautiful, too. Stream "No No Baby" by James Husband from LaLa of Montreal's own James Husband (aka James Huggins) has been assembling recordings for at least a decade, and now at last Polyvinyl Records has released his [...]
Twelve years in the making, one man band, James Husband (also known as Of Montreal drummer, James Huggins) has a new video on AOL Spinner . for his song "Windows" off his first solo album A Parallax I (Polyvinyl). The album that was made over a course of a twelve year period of touring with [...]
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