Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest music reviews takes us to Lexington, Mass., where Amanda Palmer’s play based on Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea–called With The Needle That Sings In Her Heart–was put on this past weekend. If you’re interested in seeing it yourself (and you have two and a half hours to kill), you can watch online. More »
While I was on a Brooklyn pier watching aerialists and Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of Indie Rock Celebrity Bumpwatching 2008 (sigh) on Saturday night, New York’s Knitting Factory was playing host to the Holiday Surprise tour, on which various members of the Elephant 6 collective–including Julian Koster of the Music Tapes/Chocolate USA, Will Hart and Eric Harris of Olivia Tremor Control, and Scott Spillane of seemingly every Elephant 6 band’s brass section (as well as the Gerbils)–performed the songs that made me wear down many a CD back in the day. And wouldn’t you know it, Jeff Mangum, of Neutral Milk Hotel and an increasingly large legend thanks to the now 10-years-old In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, also showed up to lend his voice to a few of the evening’s performances: The opening track to the Olivia Tremor Control’s Dusk At Cubist Castle, “The Opera House,” is above, and after the jump, a clip of the evening’s performance of “I Have Been Floated.”
I think we’ve made enough jokes about the many broken-up bands of yesteryear reuniting just in time to grab their last bit of pre-global-crash money for you to anticipate the punchline even before I get to the end of this sentence. So let’s just get to the meat of the post, shall we? News on reunion shows by Hum and Letters to Cleo, as well as some dudes hoping against hope that this year’s Coachella will bring Athens’ finest out into the desert heat, after the jump.
This item about Jeff Mangum’s nuptials also points out that Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, which is definitely in my top 20 albums of all time and maybe even in my top 15, celebrates its tenth anniversary next month. More »
This item about Jeff Mangum’s nuptials also points out that Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, which is definitely in my top 20 albums of all time and maybe even in my top 15, celebrates its tenth anniversary next month. More »
We were so inspired by Jesse Lacey of (yes) Brand New’s new cover of (yes) Neutral Milk Hotel that we decided a full-on Elephant 6 covers album by your faaaavorite chart-topping artists was badly needed. A complete wish-list track-list (and an MP3 of Lacey’s cover) after the jump.
Look, we know that April Fool’s Day falling on a Sunday is throwing off a lot of Internet pranksters’ schedules, but come on–are we really supposed to believe that the folks at Tiny Mix Tapes don’t know how to embed an MP3 player in their site? More »
Over the weekend, we found the Yo Yo A Go Go compilation in a local bargain bin; it’s a double-disc set of performances from the 1994 Yoyo A Go Go Festival in Olympia, Wash., and it has live tracks from the likes of Beck, the Halo Benders, Heavens To Betsy, and Versus. (Not bad for $3.99.) More »
Caution: nostalgia ahead!