Stream: Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Kids! Get your AIM profiles, MySpace pages, and Facebook fields ready for a serious overhaul, because the new has nearly arrived, and it s percolating with enough Kevin Barnes potent quotables to reinvent your online persona a dozen times over.
It s also quite awesome, fun, profound, melodic, disco-danceable, and right now through .
, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? lands January 23.
Just think how rad you-- yes, you, WeezrDude285-- will seem with your profile decked out in lines like We just want to emote till we re dead and Sometimes I wonder if you re mythologizing me/ Like I do you . And toss that SAT prep book out the window, Bl0cPrtyGrl69, as Barnes manages to weave both emasculate and emaciate into the opening lines of the very first track. Sick!
Truly though, Barnes is on fire here, serving up food for thought, melodies for humming, and grooves for bumpin in equal measure. Gronlandic Edit , with trippy vocals swooping in from odd altitudes, should offer solace to anyone questioning religion of late, while Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse takes a fanciful look at the wily ways of our own wack minds. She s a Rejector , meanwhile, has Kevin talking about (and deciding against, thankfully) hitting girls, and The Past Is a Grotesque Animal is just an insane, never-ending disco mega-jam.
Shit! I m excited. New Pornos, Cat Power, Hold Steady to Play Langerado
Also My Morning Jacket, Cut Chemist, but we couldn't fit their names in the headline festival has got to be fucking with us at this point.
Is it a coincidence that while the staff at Pitchfork HQ Chicago is dreading an oncoming 25-degree temperature drop, a press release rolls in for the fest (which is bands and not-so-cool (literally) weather? Nope. It s damn fine marketing, and Langerado 2007 will run from March 9-11 at Sunrise s Markham Park.
Lineup additions since last time include My Morning Jacket, the New Pornographers, Cat Power, the Hold Steady, and Cut Chemist.
Malkmus the Jicks, Girl Talk, Band of Horses, Four Tet and Steve Reid, Blackalicious, Toots and the Maytals, Explosions in the Sky, Sharon Jones the Dap-Kings, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Apollo Sunshine, and a boatload of jam bands/acts (Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, moe., B e la Fleck the Flecktones, O.
A.R., the Disco Biscuits.
..) will also be present.
View the full roster . Tickets are on sale this Friday, December 1. Canadian proto-punks will play their first show together in over 27 years on December 28.
The show will take place at the Casbah in the band s hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.
In commemoration of the event, -- the label responsible for reissuing Simply Saucer s only album, -- has uploaded two videos to YouTube. The first is a for Cyborgs Revisited track Bullet Proof Nothing , taken from band footage shot by Paul Breau (guitarist s bro) and compiled by Halifax director Colin MacKenzie.
The second is a 2003 on the band from the CBC Newsworld show Play . , meet . My Brightest Diamond, DeVotchKa.
Now get familiar, because for the next two weeks, you re stuck together with the high-power adhesive known as the North American tour. Tonight, DeVotchKa start things off sans MBD at Omaha, NE s Sokol Underground. The Brooklyn chanteuse known as Shara Worden and her two-man touring band will come into the picture tomorrow After the split, Devotchka will play their way across the West Coast with and two Denver, Colorodo hometown stints with support from on New Year s Eve and New Year s Eve Eve.
My Brightest Diamond, on the other hand, will rest up until early February, at which point she ll take her live show to Europe. December 5, MBD will release an iTunes-only EP featuring four versions of the Bring Me the Workhorse Four months ahead of his debut, (due March 20), and our little go-getter s already preparing to work a tri-continental tour circuit. scheduled shows from December 2006 through April 2007.
He ll tote his violin across the U.S. (including two New Year-celebrating gigs with and ), Europe, and, for the first time the first of next month with a stint at Middlebury College s Sepomania Festival.
The sophomore album from taut Sunderland trio doesn t drop until February 20 in the U.S. and January 22 in the UK, , but thanks to the magic of interweb, you can already hear 60% of it from the comfort of your own tiny apartment!
That s right, six of Tones of Town s ten tracks have gone web-ways-- and quite legally, I might add-- in various forms at various cyber-locales. It s like a treasure hunt! For people who hate sunlight!
Can you find them all? Here, let us help you cheat:
1. To start, click below for mp3 downloads of Tones first two tracks, courtesy of the fabulous label delivering the affair, .
You get opener Give It Lose It Take It and follow-up Sit Tight , and like their titles, these jams are sonically quick, clipped, and sharp. Unlike the titles, they re harmonious, and we even get a little strings action. Nicely done.
2. Next, bound on over to to stream three-- yes, three-- additional Tones tunes: A House Is Not a Home , Working to Work , and Place Yourself . Treat your ears to more string action, some delightful vocal harmonies and interplay, and touches of psychedelia.
Now we re cooking.
3. Finally, it wouldn t be a journey down the information superhighway in 2006 without a pit stop at YouTube.
Fuel up with a viewing of the for the sixth Tones offering, single In Context . The clip s been around for a while, but it s still ace.
4.
Bonus! Totally O.D.
on Field Music by revisiting non-album favorites You re Not Supposed To and Off and On , in and formats, respectively.
5. Get the hell away from the computer and see the band live, for crissakes:
12-20 Newcastle, England - Academy *
01-26 London, England - Tapestry Club at St.
Aloysius Church
whaddaya know? A story free of arrests, heroin, and Kate Moss: On December 5, the Pete Doherty-fronted EP, a five-song disc recorded at London s Turnmills Studios this summer. It will first land in the UK on December 4 via .
Julien Temple (the Sex Pistols Great Rock n Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury) has already created a video for the disc s title track, epileptic in all of us. If you re into stabbings, paintings, skulls, and headaches, this one s for you.
If recent comments from s rhythm section-- bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris-- are to be believed, the legendary quartet might be hanging it up for good.
In an published in the November 20 edition of Buenos Aires newspaper -- and the following day in rough translation on New Order fansite -- Hook told reporters that a November 18 festival gig in Buenos Aires might be our last show ever.
Hook also shrugged off the band s impending 30-year anniversary, saying We ve been together for 29 years, [and] I don t believe another year would be of importance, truthfully. When asked how the band was getting along, he joked, We still hate each other.
It s a question of love-hate.
Continued Hook, Sometimes when you re lucky enough to have it all, you don t appreciate it as you should. So you need a reminder of how things were when you didn t have it all.
In this moment we do have it all, so perhaps it s time that we lose it, perhaps to begin anew. That s how I feel.
Hook, however, seems generally playful throughout the interview, so it s unclear how much weight these remarks carry.
Morris had plenty to say as well: This is a strange time to be New Order...
It was good a couple of years ago when everyone was saying we were Godlike Geniuses [in reference to the NME distinction of that name] and the fans recognized the band. In a certain sense there are now many New Orders around and we re the old guys in the neighborhood..
.
The drummer skirted the question about the band s future, however. I could say there won t be New Order for a couple of years, but.
..we re bad at planning things, so let s see what happens.
The giving people at have launched their holiday charity auctions by putting what they call a Merge Mega-Bundle up for bidding on . The bundle is one CD copy of every 2006 release signed by the respective artist, which means the winner of the auction will receive signed copies of releases by Spoon, Destroyer, Camera Obscura, Robert Pollard, M. Ward, Portastatic, and Lambchop, among others.
There are plenty more auctions planned to take place soon, and all of their proceeds will go to two charities: and Durham, NC substance abuse recovery program .
All of the releases in the bundle are listed after the jump. s haunted take on Joy Division perennial favorite Love Will Tear Us Apart -- from the duo s 2006 covers LP Melody Mountain ( )-- strips away the synth and jangle to reveal the stark vulnerability inhabiting Ian Curtis tortured lyrics.
We were taken by it enough to include the thoughtful rendition on Pitchfork s , and now Rune G graphic design guru and solo artist has put together a graceful performance video.
Given the cover s delicate pacing, this audio-visual document is a bit heavy on the cuts (though quite conservative by music video standards), but striking and beautiful nonetheless, with the fades-to-black giving the impression of hushed breaths on a cold night, leaving a taste in the mouth as desperation takes hold, and-- well, you know the rest. Sit back, turn off your cell phones, and enjoy.
surrounding their upcoming LP, the band s first full length since its 1997 release, Jersey s Best Dancers. on the agenda. It s scheduled for December 27 at New Jersey s Starland Ballroom alongside Thursday and From Autumn to Ashes, but fans can expect additional tour dates in 2007.
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