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Fresh off of the August 19 world premiere of the Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback documentary at this year's Chicago Underground Film Festival and an appearance in Pitchfork's 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s feature, the Monks are back with a tribute album and even a few live performances.

The tribute album is called Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to the Monks, and play loud! will release it on October 23. The compilation features 29 tracks on two discs by artists ranging from the Fall and the Raincoats to the Gossip and Jason Forrest. The Monks themselves even appear in collaboration with Charles Wilp. There are plenty of such collaborations, the others between Jon Spencer and Solex, Silver Apples and Alan Vega, Die Goldenen Zitronen and Chicks on Speed, and Gary Burger with both Alec Empire and Faust on two separate tracks. A seven-inch single with the contributions from Alec Empire ft. Gary Burger and the Fall is also scheduled for an October 23 release on play loud!

The Monks will appear live in London, Zurich, and Berlin in October, with the latter show serving as the record release party for Silver Monk Time. Screenings of the documentary will follow the shows in Zurich and Berlin. For more information on specific events in those cities and any that are added in the future, visit http://www.playloud.org/themonks.html.

Tracklist:

Disc 1:

01 Mense Reents: "Minimal Monk"
02 Cycle: "Blast Off"
03 27/11: "Were Ever/Oh, How to Do Now"
04 The Gossip: "Drunken Maria"
05 Gudrun Gut: "Tumbling Monks"
06 Jason Forrest: "Monk Hop"
07 Fehlfarben: "We Do Wie Du"
08 Die Goldenen Zitronen ft. Chicks on Speed: "Complication"
09 Mouse on Mars: "Monks No Time"
10 Silver Apples/Alan Vega: "Silver Monk Time"
11 The Raincoats: "Monk Chant"
12 Michaela Melián: "Blaster"
13 Nista Nije Nista: "Kuchhuche"
14 The 5.6.7.8's: "Cuckoo"

Disc 2:

01 FSK: "The Transatlantic Feedback"
02 The Fall: "Higgle-dy Piggle-dy"
03 Alec Empire ft. Gary Burger: "Monk Time"
04 Floating di Morel: "Shut Up"
05 Jon Spencer/Solex: "Complication"
06 PTV 3 (Psychic TV): "Boys Are Girls and Girls Are Boys"
07 Alexander Hacke: "I Hate You"
08 Doc Schoko: "Sei Still"
09 Barbara Manning: "I Can't Get Over You"
10 S.Y.P.H.: "Oh, How to Do Now"
11 The Havletones: "That's My Girl"
12 Singapore Sling: "I Hate You"
13 The (International) Noise Conspiracy: "Shut Up"
14 Charles Wilp/The Monks: "(It Is Charles Time) Sexy-Mini-Super-Flower-Pop-Op Alles Ist Drin"
15 Faust ft. Gary Burger: "Beware (The Transatlantic Feedback)"

Dates:

10-19 London, England - TBA
10-21 Zurich, Switzerland - Club Mascotte *
10-23 Berlin, Germany - Volksbühne Berlin (record release party)

* with the Monsters