Skeletal Lamping has made the Top 100 of the Year’s Best CDs from NPR’s All Songs Considered. The show asked its listeners to nominate their favorite albums of 2008, and from all of those entries, the show gathered the Top 100.

Now is your chance to narrow down the list further to pick the best of the bunch, which will be featured in an upcoming episode of All Songs Considered. To keep it as accurate a representation as possible of listeners’ favorites, NPR is asking participants to log on (you’ll need to create a profile) and fill out the poll just once. You can do so now at npr.org. Results will be announced on December 8.

http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/polls/index.html

Paste Magazine has posted an interview with of Montreal visual artist (and Kevin-brother) David Barnes:

Catching up with…David Barnes, of Montreal’s Secret Weapon

The first “Best of 2008″ lists are starting to appear, and of Montreal has appeared on a few of them already. Blender Magazine has ranked Skeletal Lamping #7 in the top 33 albums of the year. And Paste Magazine has ranked it #12 of the top 50.

You can have a say in the Stereogum Gummy Awards. You can vote for of Montreal for Best Album, Music Video, Live Act, and more. Click here to vote!

January 20 – London ENGLAND – London Heaven %
January 20 – Berlin GERMANY – Kesselhaus 16+ CANCELLED
January 21 – Amsterdam NETHERLANDS – Paradiso AA #
January 22 – Brussels BELGIUM – Botanique AA #
January 23 – Utrecht NETHERLANDS – Tivoli AA #
January 24 – Brighton ENGLAND – Brighton Digital 18+ #
January 26 – Glasgow SCOTLAND – Oran Mor 14+ (w/ legal guardian) #
January 27 – Belfast N.IRELAND – The Stiff Kitten 18+ #
January 28 – Dublin IRELAND – Button Factory 16+ #
January 29 – Manchester ENGLAND – Club Academy 14+ (w/ legal guardian) #
January 30 – Lille FRANCE – L’Aéronef AA #
January 31 – Paris FRANCE – Le Bataclan AA #
February 1 – Strasbourg FRANCE – La Laiterie AA #
February 25 – Auckland NEW ZEALAND – Kings Arms
February 26 – Wellington NEW ZEALAND – San Francisco Bath House
February 28 – Perth AUSTRALIA – Beck’s Music Box – Perth Festival
March 3 – Sydney AUSTRALIA – Manning Bar 18+
March 4 – Brisbane AUSTRALIA – The Zoo 18+
March 5 – Melbourne AUSTRALIA – The Hi-Fi 18+
March 7 – Golden Plains AUSTRALIA – Golden Plains Festival
March 10 – Osaka JAPAN – Club Quattro
March 12 – Tokyo JAPAN – Duo Music Exchange
March 15 – Singapore SINGAPORE – Mosaic Music Festival @ Esplanade Theatres

% opening for Franz Ferdinand
# w/ Casio Kids
AA = All Ages

Thanks to jrw for the link to this Kevin interview from The Stranger.

The Stranger: Interrogation – Eric Grandy Interrogates of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes

A great live set and interview from November 13’s episode of “Music with Jay Trachtenberg” is available for streaming at kut.org.  The Beatles and John Lennon are covered.

Stereogum has revealed one of the new Jon Brion remixes, “Gallery Piece,” from the upcoming album Jon Brion Remixes (which will also include two remixes of “An Eluardian Instance,” a longer version of the “Gallery Piece” remix, and an instrumental version), due out 1/6 digitally and 1/27 on CD/LP.

Stereogum: Gallery Piece (Jon Brion remix)

Jon Brion Remix EP
01 First Time High (Reconstructionist Remix of “An Eluardian Instance”)
02 First Time High (Of Chicago Acoustic Version)
03 Gallery Piece (JB Remix)
04 Gallery Piece (Long Version)
05 Gallery Piece (Instrumental)

I forgot to link to this great B.P. interview, posted at Music is My Girlfriend. Includes backstage gossip about the Roseland Ballroom horse.

And if you ever wondered what “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)” would sound like a capella, the Washington University Stereotypes deliver:

The Lawrence Journal World reported on the misfortune
of our friend and bassist, Davey Pierce.
OF MONTREAL ROCKS LIBERTY, BREAKS MOPED

of Montreal will perform “An Eluardian Instance” on the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, December 18th, at 11:35 PM EST / PST on CBS (check local affiliates)!

Radio DePaul program Underground Wires has interviewed Dottie, and you can download and stream it at their website:

Underground Wires: Dottie Alexander Interview