Of Montreal News

Our resident vinyl expert Jason Ferguson's take on this week's fresh wax: Metalheads rejoice! Two great new albums get belated vinyl releases this week.

Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights After four years, Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson are back with their follow-up to 2005's Hypermagic Mountain .

Electric and acoustic and keyboard all over this 70s pop influenced gem. In case you're skeptical about this album, its worth mentioning that this album is more progressive/less retro-worship than the run-of-the-mill Elephant Six collective he was a part of! Grooms- Rejoicer [Death By Audio] Art-damaged pop rock that sort of hearkens back to ...

Mark Mallman, famed for his exciting live shows, plays a keyboard that might as well be an electric guitar.

Owing to some work conflicts back in Wyoming, I showed up eight hours late to the Monolith party last Saturday.

Chicago's ad industry saluted its best Thursday night at an awards show and concert by the band Of Montreal at the Riviera Theater in Uptown.

Above is a 2009 screen-printed poster artist Chris Williams created for a performance of the internationally renowned band Of Montreal at the Carolina Theatre.

Grace Jones' Hollywood Bowl perf, in support of last year's album 'Hurricane,' was her first L.A. appearance in more than 20 years.

Casper & the Cookies @ NYC Popfest Casper & the Cookies are now out on tour this July.

The Guide TV Join Michael Idato and Doug Anderson as they preview today's TV highlights.

Legendary disco dominatrix Grace Jones is back with Hurricane , her first album in over nineteen years- out now on Wall of Sound .

How we're selling records now: in bulk at deep discounts in order to avoid seeing them end up in the trash.

Green Key Weekend may be a tradition distinct to Dartmouth, but many of the College's peer institutions share in the tradition of a spring weekend devoted to parties, music and free-flowing refreshments, according to student coordinators at other colleges and universities.

In the six years since releasing his debut album, Perfect Uncertain, Cary Judd has achieved great success as an intuitive observational singer/songwriter because of his keen ability to fully embrace each person and place along the road and make the most of every experience.

Thanks to Andrew VanWyngarden from MGMT, I discovered Of Montreal and the linchpin Kevin Barnes.

The Of Montreal show at the Paradise Tuesday night, the second of their two sold-out shows at that venue this week, wasn't just a concert a ' it was an interpretive dance performance, an assemblage of trippy video installations, an excuse to parade a multitude of animal-head masks across the stage, and one giant homage to Flaming Lipsa 'style stage ...

Posted By: Amre Klimchak Of Montreal, the flamboyant indie pop band from Athens, Ga., never stops pushing the envelope on its ever-more outlandish costumes and onstage setup.

In light of my column last week bitching about the current state of popular music, I've found new comfort in knowing that a superb concert experience is not at all out of reach for fans today.

LILY ALLEN: More poppy and less sloppy than Amy Winehouse, England's other party-girl singer supports her new album, "It's Not Me, It's You" Monday at 7 p.m. Roseland Ballroom, 239 W. 52nd St.; 212-347-0200. OF MONTREAL: Atlanta's funky and flamboyant indie rockers play tonight at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn; 212-260-4700.

Of Montreal: weird, accessible and hyper-sexual. Of Montreal With Janelle Monae.