Of Montreal maps second US trek this year

Fresh off a major European tour, indie-pop band Of Montreal is making plans for its next US jaunt, which will span more than 30 dates this fall.

The Athens, GA-based group will launch the trek Sept. 28 in Carrboro, NC, and visit cities from coast to coast through mid-November. Two-night stands are planned in Chicago and Los Angeles, and three shows are booked at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. Experimental hip-hop duo Grand Buffet and indie pop-rockers MGMT appear on most dates. Details are listed below.

Of Montreal will also break away from the continent for a single show Oct. 19 at the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik.

The band has been touring relentlessly behind its January release, "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?," all year long. The album, which is the brainchild of frontman Kevin Barnes, was written during depressing times for the singer and is said to be Of Montreal's darkest and most personal collection of songs to date.

"Hissing Fauna" follows last year's "The Sunlandic Twins" and its download-only remix companion, "The Satanic Twins." The latest record, which is streaming in its entirety at Polyvinyl Records' website, reached No. 2 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart.

Barnes recently told Australian webzine Wireless Bollinger that he's already working on Of Montreal's next album, tentatively titled "Skeletal Lamping."

"I'm stepping away from the pop song template. I am going to create a bunch of 30- to 50-second sections and string them all together," he told the publication. "I don't think there will be any pauses between pieces. I want it to feel like one long piece with hundreds of movements."

Of Montreal, which, legend has it, was named after Barnes' broken romance with a woman from the Canadian city, formed in the late '90s and became part of a second wave of bands to emerge from The Elephant 6 Record Company--a collective of musicians that spawned noted indie bands including Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel.

TOUR DATES
 tour dates and tickets
September 2007
28 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle

October 2007
2 - Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theater
3 - Urbana, IL - The Canope Club
4 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
5 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
6-7 - Chicago, IL - Metro
8 - Oberlin, OH - Hale's Gym @ Oberlin College
9 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
10 - Buffalo, NY - The Tralf
11 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero
12 - Boston, MA - The Roxy
13 - New York, NY - Roseland
14 - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
31 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club

November 2007
1 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
2 - Houston, TX - Numbers
3 - Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
4 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
5 - El Paso, TX - Club 101
6 - Tempe, AZ - The Marquee
7 - Tucson, AZ - The Rialto
8-9 - Los Angeles, CA - Avalon
10 - La Jolla, CA - Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
11 - Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse
12-14 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
16 - Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
17 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
18 - Lawrence, KS - Liberty Hall
19 - Saint Louis, MO - The Pageant

 tour dates and tickets
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