Of Montreal Kicks Off Tour

Kevin Barnes and Co will gather up their colorful costumes, mountains of makeup, and tracks off the recently released Skeletal Lamping and hit the road tonight for Of Montreal‘s tour in support of the new album. Dates should keep the crew busy through the fall and on into December, and the band will be picking up the likes of Gang Gang Dance, HEALTH, Icy Demons, and others along the way. See here for further inspiration to pick up a ticket.

Dates
10/07 Durham, NC – Carolina Theatre
10/08 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel*
10/09 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club*
10/10 New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom*
10/15 Paris, France – Elysée Montmartre
10/16 London, England – KOKO
10/17 Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz
10/19 Berlin, Germany – Lido
10/20 Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Medis
10/21 Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio
10/24 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant†
10/25 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/26 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre†
10/27 Chicago, IL – The Riviera†
10/28 Toronto, Ontario – Queen Elizabeth Theatre$
10/29 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis$
10/30 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre$
10/31 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory$
11/01 Richmond, VA – The National$
11/08 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle%
11/11 New Orleans, LA – The Howlin’ Wolf%
11/12 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live%
11/13 Austin, TX – Fiesta Gardens%
11/14 Dallas, TX – House of Blues%
11/15 Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall
11/16 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre%
11/17 Murray, UT – Murray Super Theatre%
11/19 Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo^
11/20 Portland, OR – Roseland^
11/21 San Francisco, CA – Regency Center Grand Ballroom^
11/22 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
12/04 Tallahassee, FL – The Moon#
12/05 Gainesville, FL – The Venue#
12/06 Ft. Lauderdale, FL – The Revolution#
12/08 Tampa, FL – The Ritz#
12/09 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues#

* = w/ Love is All
† = w/ Sinkane
$ with Gang Gang Dance
% with Icy Demons
^ with HEALTH
# with the Fiery Furnaces

Photo by Renee Solis.

Neo Violence

Gothenburg, Sweden-based duo The Tough Alliance‘s energetic electro-pop is anything but violent, and though the two childhood friends have onstage antics that include swinging baseball bats and have been cited as hooligans by the press, the video for “Neo Violence” finds them in a rather reflective state. With nary a baseball bat to be found, Henning Fürst and Eric Berglund sit quietly amid doric columns and Technicolor light beams while the synths and beats swirl around.

Opio “Some Superfly Sh!t (Remix)”

Erstwhile member of the Hiro Imperium family, Opio, has been steadily dropping tracks off his sophomore album, Vulture’s Wisdom, Volume 1, released earlier this year. Now it’s time for the remixes. Besides throwing in some clips and blips from the 1972 blaxploitation film, Superfly, Opio also enlisted help from several friends on this remix. Fellow Hiero crew member Del the Funky Homosapien showed up to guest, as did Detroit veteran Guilty Simpson, and The Architect, who produced Vulture’s Wisdom.

Opio – Some Superfly Ish (CLEAN) 1

Yelle Readies Remix Single

French chanteuse Yelle is ready for the remixes, namely for her track “Ce Jeu,” off last year’s full-length, Pop-Up. The track has been making the rounds about the club circuit, so the inevitable remix was bound to be announced soon.

The Ce Jeu EP contains the album version of the track, as well as a remix by bandmate Tepr and two mixes created by fans from the recent contest held at the group’s MySpace page. The whole package will be released digitally on October 14, with a vinyl version to follow on November 25.

Meanwhile, ready your masks for Yelle’s upcoming shows:

10/07 Dallas, TX: House Of Blues
10/09 Austin, TX: Mohawk
10/10 Miami, FL: Polish American Club
10/11 Orlando, FL: The Social
10/13 Washington, DC: 9:30 Club
10/14 New York, NY: Webster Hall
10/15 Boston, MA: The Roxy
10/21 Chicago, IL: Logan Square Auditorium
10/22 Milwaukee, WI: Turner Hall
10/24 Denver, CO: Ogden Theatre
10/25 Salt Lake City, UT: Urban Lounge
10/27 Seattle, WA: Neumos Crystal Ballroom
10/29 Portland, OR: Berbati’s
10/31 San Francisco, CA: Mezzanine
11/01 Los Angeles, CA: Henry Fonda Theatre
11/02 San Diego, CA: Beauty Bar
11/03 San Diego, CA: UCSD

Video: “Ce Jeu”

Photo by Bastien Lattanzio.

Heidi to Host BBC Radio Show

The much-lauded electro DJ and erstwhile member of the Get Physical family (she’s also a charming XLR8R TVguest), Heidi, is set to make a foray into the world of radio. Beginning October 23, she’ll host a new BBC Radio 1 show, In New DJs We Trust, every fourth Thursday of the month.

If her DJ sets are any indication, fans can tune in from 2 – 4 p.m. and hear an array of house, techno, and the gazillion sub-genres in between. The show will also feature a “Classic Cut” track, hand-picked from Heidi’s personal favorites, as well as an item called “Below the Belt.”

Richie Hawtin will guest on the first show, scheduled for October 23 at the aforementioned time. Tune in via your browser, or listen to the show after the fact here.

Au Revoir Simone “Lark (Ruff and Jam Remix)”

Synth-pop lovelies Au Revoir Simone will soon release Reverse Migration, a collection of their favorite remixes and covers fashioned from their critically-esteemed 2007 debut LP, The Bird of Music, on November 11 via the band’s own imprint. The album boasts reinterpretations from a slew of indie all-stars, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, The Teenagers, Darkel of AIR, Montag, Best Fwends, and Pacific! being a few of them. Here, Belgium-based production duo Ruff and Jam’s remix of the floating, uplifting “Lark” keeps with the soft feel of the original, adding breadth to generate a sensual, electro nu-wave track with touching build-up, climactic release, and a beautiful sense of space.

Lark (Ruff and Jam Remix)

Lizzy Parks Raise the Roof

Songstress Lizzy Parks has already cut her teeth with the likes of Chris Bowden, the Heritage Orchestra, and numerous live gigs. Raise the Roof, her second full-length, goes deep into jazz, with major production props from Nostalgia 77 (nee Ben Lamden) and lush strings from Riaan Vosloo of N77’s live octet. Parks is clearly front and center, never becoming overshadowed by the brilliant, organic arrangements. There’s no shortage of variety here, as “Time” is an intimate number with beautiful touches of haunting melancholy, while “Spring Time” swings with a snappy, energetic fusion of horns, organs, and bass to match Parks’ bouncy vocal stride. Confident from start to finish, Raise is a marvelous and exquisite delight.

Department of Eagles In Ear Park

Dan Rossen is one half of Grizzly Bear’s songwriting team; he’s the classical-minded experimentalist to Ed Droste’s pop savant. In Department of Eagles, his project with Fred Nicolaus, Rossen eviscerates the Great American Songbook, rearranging sepia-toned tropes—barroom pianos, marching-band snares, Victrola waltzes—into supremely complex art songs. Lead-off single, “Nobody Does It Like,” sounds like a computer-generated Phil Spector production, with velvety oohs and ahhs woven around a high-stepping bass bounce. Aptly titled album closer, “Balmy Night,” meanwhile, is a banjo-and-guitar raga in the shape of a stately antebellum ballad. Needless to say, In Ear Park is the kind of release that becomes increasingly special with repeat listens.

Kenny Galactic “Catz on Earth”

In “Catz on Earth,” off Destination: the Moon!, Kenny Galactic gives the impression of a child trapped in a room busying himself with toys and gadgets from past generations. Overwhelmed by an abundance of stimulation, he aimlessly jumps from one dated contraption to another to see what each is capable of. Galactic (a member of the always-referred-to-in-the-third person, so-strange-it’s-ordinary Portland-based collective, Rob Walmart) produces a sample-heavy young and playful track that’s chalk-full of wobbly bass, off-timed, crunchy analog beats, wavering synths, and murmuring loops that converge to have true purpose amidst the chaos.

Catz on Earth

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