Video: of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance (Live)

The Blue Note will be putting on their first 9th Street Summerfest show of the season on May 26 with Of Montreal (hell yes!) headlining the event. The show is FREE , with gates opening at 6pm . The Carolina Chocolate Drops (hell yes! #2) will be stopping by 9th Street to play their own free show on [...]

• Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans (trad.)
• Of Montreal - Plastis Wafers

After a slow but sure start, the 2009 Latitude Festival has once again become one the UK's most intriguing and interesting musical events of the year. From their many middle-of-the-night, middle-of-the-woods surprises, some of the best smoothies known to man, an entire army of coloured sheep, water and light displays, good food, a good atmosphere and tonnes of great bands, if you still haven't decided whether it's worth going or not this year (some tickets are still available), we thought we'd sway you a little with a preview of what's to come in just two days time.

Athens-based Of Montreal returns with a new album next week and to Copen-hagen later this October. 'Skeletal Lamping' follows their tradition for unusual and often impossible-to-remember titles (honestly, do you really recollect titles such as 'Hissing Fauna, are You the Destroyer?' in their entirety? Ok. - How about 'Cocuelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse'?? Yeah right!)