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Month: August 2011
of Montreal’s music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes’ sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes’ best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious body of work; in a decade and a half, Barnes and Co. have churned out 10 albums, eight collections and 29 singles and EPs, including their most recent effort, thecontrollersphere (Polyvinyl). Barnes and of Montreal’s two art directors—wife Nina Barnes (a.k.a. geminitactics) and brother David Barnes—will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Nina: Paul Éluard, simply because:
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the color of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
Her eyes are always open
And will not let me sleep.
Her dreams in broad daylight
Make the suns evaporate
Make me laugh, cry and laugh,
Speak with nothing to say
No one has described the mysticism of paternal love better. Although this may have been inspired by a relation less familial.
Video for the of Montreal song “An Eluardian Instance” after the jump.
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Film At 11: My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket just released its spookily psychedelic video for “Holdin On To Black Metal” from Circuital (ATO). Sticking to its Kentucky roots, the group collaborated with Louisville’s Sole Solution Studio to produce the clip, which features fragments of MMJ’s 2011 Bonnaroo performance. Some members used their Google+ accounts to show part of the video on the eve of its debut, making it one of the network’s first video premieres. Jim James and Co. just finished a U.S. tour and will play Austin City Limits next month before heading to Europe in November. Watch “Holdin On To Black Metal” below, and read our 2007 cover story on the band.
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers:
The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Dennis Chambers
Jazz-fusion drummer Dennis Chambers continues Drum Solo Week 2.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Jake Shimabukuro
Rerun from August 1. The ukulele virtuoso performed “Bring Your Adz.”
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Fountains Of Wayne
Rerun from August 4. Former MAGNET guest editors Fountains Of Wayne supported Sky Full Of Holes with performances of “Richie And Ruben” and “Survival Car.”
Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): The Black Angels
Rerun from May 17. Austin’s Black Angels promoted latest LP Phosphene Dream.
of Montreal’s music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes’ sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes’ best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious body of work; in a decade and a half, Barnes and Co. have churned out 10 albums, eight collections and 29 singles and EPs, including their most recent effort, thecontrollersphere (Polyvinyl). Barnes and of Montreal’s two art directors—wife Nina Barnes (a.k.a. geminitactics) and brother David Barnes—will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Kevin: I’m reading Naked Lunch for the first time. I’ve always kind of been afraid of it for some reason, almost like I imagined it would somehow take over my brain and turn me into a reptile’s parasitic semen vapor or something approximating that. I read Queer and Junkie as a teenager and a few months ago read Cities Of The Red Night. I’ve loved them all. They have liberated me, artistically, emotionally and spiritually. Naked Lunch was extremely controversial at the time of its initial publication in the U.S., and there were numerous attempts by state governments to have it banned. Reading it, I can totally see why it made conservative America shit its pants. Its wildly vivid descriptions of psychotic, anarchic cartoon sexuality filled the Glenn Becks of the 1950s with a terror never before conceived of. In the wake of McCarthyism and a crippling wave of right-wing conformity, I’m actually surprised William S. Burroughs wasn’t sentenced to death for writing it, along with anyone who dared to read it. Thank god cooler heads prevailed, and as a result of its absorption into the universal mind, the human race moved forward one big step toward homo-luminosity.
—Photo by John Minihan