Of montreal

Of Montreal has made Omaha a regular tour stop for well over a decade. If you’ve kept track of the band you know their early-days home-made theatrics have evolved into grandiose, eye-popping extravaganzas that can compete with Flaming Lips for over-the-top stage dominance. We’re talking lights, costumes, props and numerous stage extras (actors?) living out […]

by of montreal

Kevin Barnes has reinvented of Montreal’s sound many times over now, and for his next album, he’s channeled the “mid to late ’70s music scene in New York,” or so he told us in our interview with him from earlier this year. Aureate Gloom will be of Montreal’s thirteenth album, and it was written after […]

Just before the release of his band's ninth album, Skeletal Lamping, we talk to Kevin Barnes about the process of writing and performing by himself, the ways he was affected by the backlash to his song's appearance in an Outback Steakhouse commercial, and how there's a middle-aged black transgender man inside us all.

We got an up-close look at the little home.