Elephant 6 Collective Reveals Holiday Surprise Tour
Athens, Ga.-based artist collective Elephant 6 plans to revisit its 2008 Holiday Surprise Tour idea, next year celebrating the apparently-festive spring season with songs from Elf Power, the Music Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel and more.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Apples in Stereo: Travellers in Space and Time
Sextet blasts off but remains in orbit Those who’ve come to love The Apples in Stereo for the band’s colorful, high-energy tunes won’t be disappointed by its seventh studio album. Travellers in Space and Time leans heavily on futuristic kitsch, sporting campy touches like robotic pulses, vocoder sound-scrambling and intermittent directions from a Charlie’s Angels-esque commander.... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Apples in Stereo Prep New Album
Psych-pop Elephant 6 act The Apples in Stereo will release their new album, Travellers in Space and Time, on April 20 via Yep Roc/Simian (AKA: Elijah Wood’s label)/Elephant 6. Coming three years after New Magnetic Wonder, Travellers is being billed as “their most hi-fi and hook-laden production to date,” according to Yep Roc.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsJeff Mangum appears onstage with E6 friends, press flips
When it comes to Jeff Mangum, nothing gets by the eagle eyes of the indie-music media. As reported by Pitchfork, Stereogum, Idolator, your mother's dog (and assuredly many others), the Neutral Milk Hotel leader, who has been (with a couple exceptions) reclusive since the release of opus In The Aeroplane Over the Sea 10 years ago, appeared onstage with some old Elephant 6 pals this weekend in New York. ... read more
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