It seems as though Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal and Independence Day (the holiday, not the movie) shouldn't jive. July 4th is brimming with conservative values, and the band's transgender obsessed schizo-disco lives on the most westward tip of the left wing. But as a celebration of freedom and spectacle, an Of Montreal show makes Fair St. Louis's Montgomery Gentry and fireworks presentation look like an entertainment program for the Third Reich. Click here to continue reading Ryan Wasoba's review of
Of Montreal at the Luminary Center for the Arts. Photos by
Lee Harris.
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