Last week Marnie Stern announced that she'd setup a kissing both (with her as the kissed) at her two weekend shows with Gang Gang Dance in San Francisco and Los Angeles. (That's what she was in training for, see?) The cost: for a peck on the cheek, for a kiss on the lips, and if you wanted to go French. It turns out she did the booths to raise money to pay for a speeding ticket and other traffic violations. She's brave. Of course, someone took her up on her offer. Though, according to this review of her San Francisco stint, it wasn't as many as you might've guessed.

Anyone who's been to one of superproducer Jon Brion's residency performances at the Largo in L.A. (sadly, this does not include me) knows the man to be an encyclopedic, multi-instrumental compendium of pop music, able to recreate and revise nearly any moment in rock with his bare hands and a loop pedal or ten. This is the kind of man you get to do a remix CD. Enter of Montreal, who've commissioned Jon to lend his recreating, revising, superproducing digits to some Skeletal Lamping songs. As if they didn't fold over and remix themselves enough. As a first course try out the Brion take on the slinky, littany-of-sex-type-things track "Gallery Piece," which retains its funk, but gets an unexpected rinse of squeaky synths and 8-bit chirps. It's Nintendo sex.

Shugo Tokumaru completed his tour with Magnetic Fields and went home to Japan, but not before recording a Daytrotter Session, which went to tape in October. Take a listen (and don't forget "Green Rain").