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Arguably the hardest working Elephant 6 band out there (if not ever), Of Montreal apparently just can't get enough of the nomadic life. They've announced the whopping three-month "Nonsloth Music for Orto and Others Tour", kicking off in Hawaii next week, and covering forty-ish cities and towns from sea to shining sea (with a brief sojourn to Canada). The trek lasts so long, it will feature no less than four different opening lineups, ranging from the irreverent hip-hop of Grand Buffet and DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, to fellow Elephant Sixers the Late B.P. Helium and James Husband, to Midwest indie poppers the M's and Saturday Looks Good to Me.

No sloths allowed:

01-14 Honolulu, HI - Anna Bananas
01-15 Honolulu, HI - Thirtynine Hotel
01-20 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon *
01-21 Houston, TX - Numbers *
01-24 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *
01-26 San Diego, CA - Epicentre *
01-27 Los Angeles, CA - Ex Plex (below the Echo) *
01-28 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
01-31 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey *
02-01 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
02-03 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
02-04 Los Angeles, CA - TBA
02-05 Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse *
02-07 Dallas, TX - Granada *
02-08 Oklahoma City, OK - TBA
02-09 Austin, TX - Emo's *
02-11 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse *
02-15 Gainesville, FL - TBA #
02-16 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder #
02-17 Orlando, FL - The Social #
02-18 Miami, FL - PAC #
02-19 Jacksonville, FL - Jackrabbit's #
02-22 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle Music Hall
02-23 Nashville, TN - The End
02-24 St. Louis, MO - The Gargoyle
02-25 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note (True False Film Festival)
02-26 Newport, KY - Southgate House
02-28 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle %
03-01 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite %
03-02 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom %
03-03 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom %
03-04 Portland, ME - Space Gallery %
03-05 Cambridge, MA - Middle East %
03-06 Hanover, NH - Fuel Rocket Club %
03-07 Montreal, Quebec - Le Tulipe
03-08 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
03-09 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig
03-10 Chicago, IL - The Metro
03-11 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club ^
03-12 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground ^
03-13 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck ^

* with Grand Buffet, MGMT, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist
# with the Late B.P. Helium, James Husband
% with the M's
^ with Saturday Looks Good to Me

As if all that weren't enough, Of Montreal also have several recording projects on the horizon. According to OM main man Kevin Barnes, writing to Pitchfork via email, the band has been working on demos for their next LP, so far titled Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, and will be playing several new songs during the jaunt.

A limited edition EP will be for sale at the show. It will include the minty fresh tunes "Psychotic Feeling" and "More Noir Blues and Tinnitus" as well as "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" from the 2005 Of Montreal album The Sunlandic Twins and "Disconnect The Dots" from 2004's Satanic Panic in the Attic.

Fans swarming the merch table will also have the chance to pick up the band's latest 7", released by Suicide Squeeze Records, which features the new track "Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da" with "Mute Noir Blues" on the b-side. Another Of Montreal 7", scheduled to be released on the New Orleans-turned-Pennsylvania-based Park the Van Records last fall, but postponed due to Hurricane Katrina-induced label turmoil, is forthcoming.

Finally, a remix album of tracks from Sunlandic and Satanic Panic is in the works, with !!!, Supersystem, Broken Spindles, Grizzly Bear, IQU, Mixel Pixel, Trash UK, DJ Dave Pianka (aka Making Time/Fixed dude Dave P), and I Am the World Trade Center all on board for knob-twiddlin'. Party!

* Pitchfork Review: Of Montreal: The Sunlandic Twins