Indie electronic-pop band Of Montreal [ tickets ] is actually of Athens, GA. It's not clear how the name came to be, but an oft-repeated--and never verified--version is that it was inspired by a lost love of frontman Kevin Barnes, a woman who was from the Canadian city.

Formed in 1997, the quasi-vaudevillian group is known to perform dressed in costumes and painted faces. The group commonly offers dark lyrics with contrasting cheerful melodies, as well as oddball covers like Yoko Ono's "I Felt Like Smashing my Head Through a Clear Glass Window."

Of Montreal's ninth studio album, "Skeletal Lamping," dropped last month, and the band has been previewing the new material--and breaking in new drummer Ahmed Gallab--on the road. The current US tour runs through the middle of next month.

LiveDaily's Richard Tafoya caught Of Montreal at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago in 2007, here are some of the photos he took followed by a few shots by Tim Mosenfelder--taken at the Coachella Music Festival earlier that year.