Kevin got to chat with Rolling Stone about the new album, Lousy with Sylvianbriar, coming out later this year. Check it out at the link!

5/4/13 – Orlando, FL @ The Social *
5/5/13 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Varsity Theater *
5/6/13 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk *
5/8/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *^
5/9/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex *
5/10/13 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s *
5/11/13 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
5/12/13 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Project *
5/15/13 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center *
5/16/13 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre *
5/17/13 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
5/18/13 – Covington, KY @ The Madison Theater *
5/19/13 – Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom *
5/20/13 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom *
5/21/13 – Boston, MA @ Paradise *
5/22/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
5/23/13 – Richmond, VA @ Canal Club *
5/24/13 – Greensboro, NC @ Blind Tiger *
5/25/13 – Frederick, MD @ Flying Dog Brewery
5/28/13 – Honolulu, HI @ Republik #
6/1/2013 – Nagano, Japan @ Taico Club Festival

* w/ Wild Moccasins
^ w/ Turquoise Jeep
# w/ Clones of the Queen & Sing the Body

We got a chance to stop by the NPR office for a Tiny Desk Concert w/ Rebecca Cash. There’s also a couple news songs!

A video THANK YOU, from us to YOU, for supporting our Song Dynasties Kickstarter project.

-oM

Stereogum just debuted our new video for “Feminine Effects” (featuring Rebecca Cash)! Check it out above.

This version of “Feminine Effects” is featured on Daughter of Cloud, which is available here on CD, 2xLP, MP3 – http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/daughterofcloud

Today also marks the first day of our fall tour! Check out a complete list of dates below. Tickets are available on our tour page here: http://www.ofmontreal.net/tour-dates/

11/28 – Miami, FL @ The Stage
11/29 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon
11/30 – Orlando, FL @ The Plaza
12/01 – Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box
12/02 – New Orleans, LA @ Howlin’ Wolf
12/03 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
12/04 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
12/05 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
12/06 – Oklahoma City, OK @ ACM @ UCO Performance Lab
12/07 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
12/08 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
12/09 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
12/10 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
12/11 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
12/12 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
12/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
12/14 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
12/15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
03/08 – Savannah, GA @ Forsyth Park (Savannah Stopover)

Got a chance to chat with Buzzine about writing music. Video above, more interview stuff HERE.

THE STORY BEHIND SONG DYNASTIES

After the release of Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? in 2007, Kevin had the idea to record of Montreal performing back-to-back nights in Los Angeles at the Avalon.

With the help of friend Craig Zobel (Compliance, Great World of Sound), a crew was assembled and the first multi-camera professional quality shoot was attempted of the band.

The following fall, filmmaker Jason Miller began documenting the Skeletal Lamping tour. With a show featuring just as many non-musical performers as musicians on stage, this tour was far and away the biggest live production we had ever attempted to that point.

Jason rode on the bus for the first week of the tour, capturing moments on stage and off, and was in attendance for the now infamous show where Kevin took the stage on horseback. Following his week on the road, Jason assembled a crew and filmed our entire set at the Tabernacle in Atlanta.

Then we just kept filming. We had cameras rolling everywhere we went: music festivals (Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Culture Collide), on the tour bus, backstage, in the studio — nowhere was off limits.

We even just discovered a box of old camcorder tapes that date back to the very early days of the band. This is the earliest of Montreal footage known to exist.

Earlier this year, we realized that we literally had 100s of hours of footage. As 2012 comes to a close, we are finishing what has developed into a comprehensive, feature-length documentary showing of Montreal from the beginning to the present date.

This project is 16 years in the making. We are asking for your help to finally bring this film to life.

In order to finish the film, which we’ve titled Song Dynasties, we need to bring a crew on the road to shoot the final round of footage and conduct interviews, as well as pay for their flights, costly venue filming fees, digitizing dozens of old tapes, lots of hard drives to store the footage, editing the documentary and the list of expenses goes on and on.

If this Kickstarter project is successful, we’ll be able to wrap filming and editing this winter and have a final cut of the film in March of 2013!

In return for your pledge, we’re offering a number of exclusive rewards including an extremely limited LP of early recordings (the earliest oM recordings known to exist – earlier than The Early Four Track Recordings).

Check out more prizes and find out more about the project here – http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/743105919/of-montreal-song-dynasties-feature-length-document

Here’s the new video for “Sails Hermaphroditic” (directed by Kevin and Nina). Watch as The Sleep Rats battle The Preppy Scuz in a game of zombie football. Through out the game people occasionally lose themselves in a psychedelic sexual reverie. Eventually the battle is broken up by a gonzo performance by the legendary Newcastle hair-metal band Moat-er-Wilde.

“Sails Hermaphroditic” is featured on the new rarities/outtakes album Daughter of Cloud, which is available here – http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/daughterofcloud

Daughter of Cloud and the new Harouki Zombi 7″, Objet Petit A, are officially out now! Both are available through Polyvinyl HERE, or at your favorite local record shop! Daughter of Cloud is available on black 2xLP, CD, purple cassette, and digital formats while Objet Petit A comes on limited purple 2×7″ and digital.

Any Rdio users out there? Daughter of Cloud is featured on Rdio’s New Music Tuesday program. Check it out HERE.

And as always, both releases are also available on iTunes:
Daughter of Cloud – https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/daughter-of-cloud/id568824777
Objet Petit A - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/objet-petit-a-ep/id568824303

Daughter of Cloud is available for purchase through Polyvinyl Records on CD, 2xLP, cassette, and digital formats RIGHT HERE.