Check it out as Davey gets his pins removed from his wrist!

If you missed our fashion week party in NYC, check out some highlights here.

And finally, check out Kevin and David hanging in the bus.

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Kevin Barnes Interviews Hall and Oates for Under the Radar

Posted by seth on Tuesday Sep 29, 2009 Under Uncategorized

Kevin_Hall_and_OatsKevin Barnes recently sat down with the legendary Hall and Oates for a 2 part interview for Under the Radar! Check out part 1 with Daryl Hall HERE and part 2 with John Oates HERE.

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of Montreal’s Fashion Week Takeover!

Posted by seth on Thursday Sep 24, 2009 Under General News, Reviews, Shows

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So this year’s fashion week has come and gone, and our Thrillist party at Santos Party House was INSANE! Thanks to all that came out and got crazy with us.  If you weren’t there, we missed you!!! But you can check it out in places like Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Fluxblog, Rockscope, Gawker, NBC New York, Refinery29, Garbage Dress, and more! Above photo by Vincent Cornelli.

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Attention NYC: Enter to Win Tickets To Our Private Party

Posted by seth on Thursday Sep 10, 2009 Under Shows

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Click HERE to enter!

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of Montreal’s own James Husband (aka James Huggins) has been assembling recordings for at least a decade, and now at last Polyvinyl Records will be releasing his first official solo album compiled from that back catalog, A Parallax I, on October 27th.  Recorded in Athens and Stockholm, the album features contributions from Dottie Alexander, producers Tomas Hakava and Johan Stenstrom, and Jenny Wilson.

Track listing:

1 Little Thrills
2 A Grave in the Gravel
3 Greyscale
4 Elephant Alibi
5 Take the Train
6 No No Baby
7 While the Boys Went Down Under
8 Window
9 Waiting on Rayne
10 Driving Around
11 The Darkestness
12 The Great Grand Ghosts of Buena Vista GA

It’s available in CD as well as black and pink 180 gram vinyl.  Pre-order now to get a bonus 6-song covers EP!

On the same date, Polyvinyl will be repressing some early of Montreal records in 180-gram vinyl: The Early Four Track Recordings, The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit’s Flower, The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy, Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse, and Aldhils Arboretum.  You can purchase all 5 reissues plus the James Husband album for a special bundled discount at Polyvinyl’s website.

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Under the Radar Interview, Suicide Girls Interview

Posted by jeff on Sunday Aug 23, 2009 Under Interviews

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Under the Radar interviews Kevin about the next album, False Priest:

Under the Radar: of Montreal – In the Studio

And Suicide Girls also recently interviewed Kevin:

Suicide Girls: of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes

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Too Bored Interview

Posted by jeff on Sunday Aug 23, 2009 Under Interviews, Watch
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Lollapalooza Coverage

Posted by jeff on Sunday Aug 23, 2009 Under Reviews, Watch

We’ve got some things to catch up with on this website, so let’s get started with all that Lollapalooza coverage. (Thanks, by the way, to The Booty Patrol for doing a remarkable job keeping up-to-date with all the latest of Montreal happenings.)

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Rolling Stone Coverage

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Detailed Coverage at The Windy Citizen

VenusZine interview with Dottie and Jamey:

There’s a Fuse interview with Kevin and BP here and here.
Oh… and a BP interview with XRT here.
And! James interviewed by RockOnAltitude (yep) here.

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of Montreal’s Fox Theater Show Reviewed on SPIN Earth

Posted by seth on Thursday Jul 30, 2009 Under Uncategorized

Head over to SPIN Earth to read a review of the show at The Fox Theater in Oakland, CA.
Click HERE to read it. Photo by Uyen Phan.

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Kevin’s new blog

Posted by BP on Thursday Jul 30, 2009 Under General News

why doesn’t he just use this blog? dunno…

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The Violence of Handcrafted Dolls

click here to journey to Kevin Barnes' The Violence of Handcrafted Dolls

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