Tag Archives: Of Montreal

Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]

Like Stockholm Syndrome, in Reverse!

Yesterday evening I got a Facebook message from a friend of mine—a DJ, producer and soon-to-be label-head—expressing enmity for a certain band who will go unnamed. I defended their right to exist and he conceded to most of my points, but maintained that if—like him—I lived closer to their stomping grounds I’d be “begging […]

Jon & Brion & Robert & Wyatt (and Hot Chip and of Montreal)

So tell me, is January too early in the year to start playing favorites with and making predictions about which albums are going to end up being the year’s best? I sure as hell thought so when I posted about Animal Collective’s newest opus last Wednesday, otherwise I would’ve come right out and admitted […]

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Four)

They’re the best around; the fourth and final day of El Keter’s favorites of 2008.

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are another five… Adorably precocious Swedish Indie-Pop chanteuse Lykke Li out-Feist-ed Canadian Indie-Folk femme Leslie Feist simply by being…well…more feisty. The nigh-unpronounceable newcomer’s initially self-released debut Youth Novels […]