Today, the Hopscotch Festival premiered a video of Kurt Wagner of Lambchop performing “Buttons,” a track from the band’s latest album Mr. M, at Carrboro’s Friendly Barber Shop during XX Merge. Mr. M was released earlier this year to some of the best reviews of Lambchop’s career including the NY Times who said, “of all Lambchop’s records, Mr. M sounds like its least mannered, most mysterious and probably its best.”
Watch Lambchop perform “Buttons” at Friendly Barber Shop
The Hopscotch Festival begins September 6 in Raleigh, NC. Included in the impressive festival line-up is Lambchop, who will perform at the lovely Fletcher Opera Theater on Saturday, September 8. Other Merge bands at the festival include: Pipe, Versus, Mac McCaughan, the Mountain Goats, the Love Language, Shark Quest, Wye Oak & Flock of Dimes.
Merge Records will also host a free listening party at Foundation from 4-6pm on Friday, September 7.
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