2nd Fanfare for Elephant 6

The beautifully creative people of the Townhall have released their 2nd cover compilation last month, entitled Second Fanfare for Elephant 6. It features quite a few of Montreal covers, including "You've Got A Gift" by everyone's favorite, Akyllic Love, a spot-on cover of "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" by Freemdom (whoever that is), a string-laden "Psychotic Feeling" by Lenn9on9 (possibly my favorite of the lot - it really adds something to the original version), "Requiem For OMM2" by Zakk Zielke, and finally a lo-fi rendering of "Lysergic Bliss" by AceAzzameen and Office Party.
Many thanks to Abel for keeping the elephant 6 spirit alive online, and to everyone who participated.

You can download the 40 tracks free there, or stream it there.

The Tribute

We are proud to present Aluminum Plums, a 10th anniversary tribute to of Montreal. First, huge thanks to everyone who contributed a song. This is all about the love for Kevin's songs, and while it's nearly impossible to top of Montreal's definitive versions, we applaud all the people who tried to inject some of their own passion into these songs. You may have heard a few of these covers before, but we're proud to include them and all of the contributors' efforts in this package of love - we're just wrapping it up and putting a bow (or, er, some foil) on it for them.

Aluminum Plums

1. Jeff Maksym "Dustin Hoffman Offers Lame Explanation For Missing Bathtub"
2. A Candlelight Vigil "She's A Rejector"
3. Aisle Six "Vegan In Furs"
4. Elekibass "Springtime is The Season"
5. Becky Lovell and Dena Zilber "Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks"
6. Ben Hogan "Look At The Bell"
7. DMQ "Family Nouveau"
8. Sorry Stories "Autobiographical Grandpa"
9. Lesbian Afternoon "Disconnect the Dots"
10. Alex Madore "Jennifer Louise"
11. Emily Pike "City Bird"
12. Gay Harlequin "Kissing In The Grass"
13. Terrified Terrifics "Du Og Meg"
14. Dustin Hoffman Has Formed An of Montreal Cover Band "Kevin, I Wish You Were Born In Brazil"
15. Indie Blockedappella "Will You Come And Fetch Me?"
16. J&H "Requiem For O.M.M.2"
17. Vince Nicotra "Montreal"
18. Dena Zilber "Good Morning Me"
19. Manticore Am I "Charlie And Freddie"
20. Ketchup Fart "Landscape Mixdown"
21. Electronicollege "Cato As Pun"
22. Brandon Creath "Oslo In The Summertime"
23. Low Digital "Suffer For Fashion"
24. Prash "Chrissy Kiss The Corpse"
25. Casper And The Cookies "Penelope"

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Thank You and Happy 10th Anniversary, of Montreal!

(in E6 time. Thanks everybody for your patience.)
We have FLAC and MP3 versions available. If you have a high-speed connection and plan on possibly burning this onto a CD, we strongly urge you to download the FLAC version, just convert it to Wav(PC) or Aiff(Mac) and burn, then convert into mp3s if you want. If you have Mac, you can convert with MacFlac, and on PC with Trader's Little Helper (just drag folder or flacs into the window and select "decode"). Since it's a whole album, we're sharing it that way. If you're struggling with a dial-up connection, let us know and maybe we'll offer individual mp3s in the future. Thanks again to all the contributors , and to of Montreal for being such a worthy inspiration.

Feel free to head over to Polyvinyl after downloading and go ahead and pick up that new of Montreal tour 7" or Big Oil reissue (or whatever else you don't have yet - they probably have it), and don't forget about the acoustic EP available from Sony Connect.

BTW, the band who did "Cato As A Pun" recently changed their name from Transcendence To Sigma to Electronicollege... and sorry we didn't catch the original message, "Suffer For Fashion" is by Low Digital, not Chadney, so tag both those tracks accordingly if you already downloaded.

Tenth Anniversary Tribute

Hi! First, please welcome our new Patrol Leader, Stompclapclap. *clapping and stomping* Patrol Leaders SCC and QG would like to draw your attention to this:

The of Montreal Tenth Anniversary Tribute

July marks the tenth anniversary of the release of "Cherry Peel", let's celebrate with a covers tribute album!

THE RULES

1. Record an of Montreal song. Any song recorded and released by of Montreal will be OK. If it's a cover you recorded previously that's OK. Any level of faithfulness to the song is OK, and changing it up and making it your own is especially OK. Any experience level of playing, singing, or recording is OK - the best compilation will have a wide variety, so even if you have no software and don't know where to begin, we encourage you to still participate. If you need any advice or audio technical help, please don't hesitate to ask us, we would love to help! If you are technically disinclined, you can even just record your song onto a cassette and send it to us. We'll do anything we can to help you share the of Montreal love. If you wish to "call" a song, send us an email (thebootypatrol@gmail.com) to reserve it.

2. Save your song as either an mp3 (preferably high bitrate) or FLAC. Email us the file or link. If it's small enough, just email it to us directly at thebootypatrol@gmail.com. If it's too big to email, upload it to a public host like sendspace and email us the link (or message us, instead of posting publicly). Again, if you need any help with this, please don't hesitate to ask, we would love to help you and would hate for something so easy to be a hindrance to sharing your song.

3. Get your song in by July 27, 2007. The compilation will be available for free download shortly after, with cover art, and will also be mailed to the band as gifts.

So, to call a song or send a song to us, or if you have any questions at all, just email us at thebootypatrol@gmail.com

Songs claimed/sent (updated July 23rd, 1:35pm):
- Dustin Hoffman Offers Lame Possible Explanation for Missing Bathtub (SENT)
- In the Army Kid
- Cato as a Pun
- Requiem For OMM2
- Lysergic Bliss
- Jennifer Louise (SENT)
- We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling
- Good Morning, Mr. Edminton (SENT)
- A Collection of Poems About Water
- Gronlandic Edit
- Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks (SENT)
- Autobiographical Grandpa
- Tim I Wish You Were Born A Girl (Brazilian version!)
- She's A Rejector (SENT)
- Spoonful of Sugar
- Oslo in the Summertime (SENT)
- Disconnect the Dots (SENT)
- Kissing in the Grass
- Du Og Meg
- Penelope
- I Was Watching Your Eyes
- Let's Do Everything For The First Time Forever (SENT)
- Don't ask me to explain
- Vegan in Furs
- I was a landscape in your dream
- Old Familiar Way
- Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider
- Will You Come and Fetch Me (SENT)
- Montreal (SENT)