Montreal, Barcelona make their pitches
Still looking for that ideal summer vacation location? Thankfully, both Montreal and Barcelona are hear to help. Only it it won’t be the sites of a city that will be entertaining you upon your arrival, but the sounds, and new ones at that, of some fine bands.
As cheesy as the above paragraph may be, it is accurate! After all, two of musics more notable bands named after cities will be providing quite a bit of fun in the coming months.
As we mentioned last week, Kevin Barnes and Of Montreal will unveil their newest project, Skeletal Lamping, on October 7 via Polyvinyl. Since then, the Montreal Georgia natives have both dished out album artwork, a tracklist, and some more North American tour dates.
Skeletal Lamping Tracklist:
01 Nonpareil of Favor
02 Wicked Wisdom
03 For Our Elegant Caste
04 Touched Something’s Hollow
05 An Eluardian Instance
06 Gallery Piece
07 Women’s Studies Victims
08 St.Exquisite’s Confessions
09 Triphallus, to Punctuate!
10 And I’ve Seen a Bloody Shadow
11 Plastis Wafers
12 Death Is Not a Parallel Move
13 Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
14 Mingusings
15 Id Engager
Of Montreal 2008 North American Tour Dates:
10/07 - Durham, NC @ Carolina Theatre of Durham Fletcher Hall
10/08 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
10/10 - New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
10/24 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
10/25 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
10/26 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater *
10/27 - Chicago, IL @ The Riviera *
10/28 - Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/30 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
10/31 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory
11/01 - Richmond, VA @ The National
11/08 - Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
11/11 - New Orleans, LA @ Howlin Wolf
11/12 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Liv
11/13 - Austin, TX @ 507 E. 6th Street
11/14 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
11/15 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
11/16 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
11/17 - Murray, UT @ Murray State Theatre
11/19 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox So Do ^
11/20 - Portland, OR @ Roseland ^
11/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center ^
11/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ TBA ^
* = w/ Sinkane
^ = w/HEALTH
Tickets to most of the currently announced shows are available via ticketmaster.com.
I’m From Barcelona, who like Of Montreal, aren’t at all from the city they’re named after, will also be releasing a new album in the coming weeks. Entitled Who Killed Harry Houdini?, the followup to 2006’s Let Me Introduce My Friends, will see light on October 14 via Mute Records. While the album’s first single, “Paper Planes” will hit us before any new Of Montreal sounds, whether live or recorded, as of now, the Swedish only have a few European dates on their itenerary.
Who Killed Harry Houdini? Tracklist:
01 Andy
02 Paper Planes
03 Headphones
04 Music Killed Me
05 Gunhild (ft. SoKo)
06 Mingus
07 Ophelia
08 Houdini
09 Little Ghost
10 Rufus
Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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