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This is your lucky day. Maybe. Speaking to Billboard, William Cullen Hart (Circulatory System, Olivia Tremor Control) brought up the possibility of Jeff Mangum, the ever reclusive, deified artist, participating in the upcoming Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise tour (TMT News). "Jeff told me he wants to make it to the Chicago show and maybe the Kentucky show, so we'll see," says Cullen Hart. "I know he hasn't...
Fans of Athens, Ga., indie-psych collective Elephant 6 should delight in this month's Holiday Surprise variety tour, with 14 U.S. dates featuring a gathering of like-minded musicians playing new material and older goodies from the collective's mid-'90s heyday.
If you're looking for the Elephant 6 Orchestra set from last night, I don't think the recording will come out to be listenable. The room acoustics conspired against us, it happens. Also the Stereolab show from the 40 Watt needs to be approved before I can post, so that is a medium-term project.
Short notice for anyone who wasn't aware, but the Elephant 6 Surprise Holiday Tour kicks off tonight at Cine in Athens. The evening will also include the premiere screening of the Major Organ and the Adding Machine movie, probably this year's key challenger to the Flaming Lips at the Bizarro Oscars. The rundown, from the Athens Cine website: The long awaited premiere of the MAJOR ORGAN & THE ADDING...
Julian Koster at Athens Popfest, August 2008 There has been a lot of buzz about the upcoming tour with The Music Tapes and other Elephant 6 folks (not coming to Georgia, I'll add), but today I caught wind of something a little sooner and closer to home. On Monday evening at Athens Cine , Julian Koster of The Music Tapes will appear along with Mount Eerie , Thimble Circus , and Nesey Gallons for an...
Legendary songwriter Vic Chesnutt teams with Elephant 6 psychsters Elf Power Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power A tuneful collision of Athens institutions finds fruition this fall when Orange Twin releases Vic Chesnutt's collaboration with Elephant 6 psychsters Elf Power, Dark Developments on October 28. As intriguing as this combination may seem for hardcore fans of either act, the final sonic results reveal...
The Holiday Surprise Tour, a spectacular series of shows organized by The Music Tapes frontman Julian Koster, is set to take place throughout October, featuring various members of the Elephant Six Collective. The shows will act as a salute to select members of the Athens-based, loosely-defined, tight-knit collective. Artists slated to be memorialized include Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System,...
*cross-posted from Cable & Tweed One of the more unique events of this year’s Athens Popfest has been the reunion of former Ruston, Louisiana, high school band Fat Planet. Why the special occasion? It’s not every teen band whose members go on to establish Elephant 6. Robert Schneider, Will Cullen Hart, Pete Ehrchick, Bill Doss Fat Planet members [...]
One of the more unique events of this year's Athens Popfest has been the reunion of former Ruston, Louisiana, high school band Fat Planet. Why the special occasion? It's not every teen band whose members go on to establish Elephant 6. Robert Schneider, Will Cullen Hart, Pete Ehrchick, Bill Doss Fat Planet members Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo, Marbles, Ulysses, Thee American Revolution) and Bill...
Julian Koster, member of the Elephant 6 Collective, former member of the legendary Neutral Milk Hotel and current leader of The Music Tapes, will be playing in Central Park tonight to his two stuffed animals. An acorn will be your ticket in, and there are plenty of other instructions that should keep you busy up until show time, which is 10:46 p.m. (not a moment sooner). This is a rain date for a...
Well, the Elephant 6 vibe is alive and well on The Colbert Report. On Monday, co-founder Robert Schneider and his Apples became the first band to appear twice, and played an inspired version of "Can You Feel It?" to promote...a...
Who: Elf Power Location: Athen, GA RIYL: Olivia Tremor Control, Arcade Fire, Beulah Thoughts: Any time you find yourself writing about an Elephant 6 band you fall into the trap of comparing one band to the other and obviously Elf Power hasn't been spared that in their career. Just look at the RIYL above. Shit all of these bands are linked and interwoven like fuck, but Elf Power has had the
You Ain't No Picasso talks to Kevin Barnes about the new Of Montreal album, and how his songwriting become lyrically and stylistically more personal: There was a weird, almost fascist state of mind in the Elephant 6 collective, at least...
From Athens, Georgia, and not from Canada, Of Montreal has its roots deeply grounded in the Elephant6 scene (Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples In Stereo). The band’s style has been influenced by not only more conventional indie and psychedelic rock, but also by cabaret on their earlier releases and by afrobeat, krautrock, [...]
