“And this is the room /one afternoon I knew I could love you” - King of Carrot Flowers Part 1 Jeff Magnum, main musician for long-dead indie rock legends NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, has fans slavering at the news of a reunion. The line up will be Magnum, Jeremy Barnes, Scott Spillane and Julian Koster. Members The post Neutral Milk Hotel announce reunion appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
This is exactly the kind of news I needed to hear today. Jeff Mangum will reunite Neutral Milk Hotel later this year for a tour! Only five dates have been announced so far, but considering the last tour was in 1998, this is a great start. It all kicks off October 22nd in the band's hometown of Athens, GA. Stay tuned for more. 10/22 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club (w/ Elf Power) 10/23 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club (w/ Half Japanese) 10/25 – Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium (w/ Half Japanese [...]
Karlı bir İstanbul sabahında, aklım bir şarkıya dayalı yılları üçer beşer atladım, sen söyle hangi yıldasın. Son dedin, bu son dedim. İki kıtayı, seni, beni, ölümü ve yaşamı ayıran görkemli bir boğaz köprüsünde, buğulu bir otobüs camına; "yalnızlık gittiğin yoldan gelir" diye yazıyorum ve gidiyorum... Elf Power - Come Lie Down With Me (And Sing My Song) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country

mp3: Dream Boat - Sea To Sky Dream Boat is a new musical collective lead by Athens, GA artists Page Campbell and Dan Donahue. For their debut album Eclipsing , the duo have brought together an impressive ensemble of musicians from the Athens scene, including members of Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Elf Power to name a few. "Sea To Sky" is the beautifully ethereal lead single. Eclipsing is out December 4 on Cloud Recordings .
As Spring switches gears into Summer, Athens heats up with the annual amalgam of mostly family friendly music, arts and film festival functionally known as AthFest . The three day festival, June 20 through 24, offers two outdoor stages stacked with local bands and a few from Atlanta. These shows are free and feature must-see stand-outs including Atlas Sound, Reptar, Elf Power, Yacht Rock Review, Soulphonics and Ruby Velle, The Glands and Five Eight. For only $20, you can buy a wristband that allows you entrance to an array of venues with additional great lineups. The [...]

5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let’s get weird. Words by Chris These are songs mentioning a sad lady. Read on to share in momentary pathos mixed with personal convictive storytelling. No, I don’t know what that means either. [...]

18 yüzyılın sonlarında, Napolyon'un askerleri, pek çok Mısırlı çocuğun piramitleri Fransızlar ya da İngilizler tarafından yapıldığını sandıklarını fark etmişti. Yirminci yüzyılın sonlarında da pek çok çocuk Hiroşima ve Nagasaki'ye atılan bombaların Ruslar tarafından atıldığını sanıyor. "Eduardo Galeano" Biliyor musunuz kan konusunu almış bir köpekbalığından daha tehlikeli şey nedir? Petrol kokusunu almış emperyalizm.. Sahiden en son ne zaman üşüyerek güneşin doğuşunu izleyip, çıplak aylaklarla toprağa bastınız? Elf Power - Come Lie Down With Me (And Sing My Song) [...]
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Spring Forward Mix Having trouble with springing forward? Hopefully the warm weather and longer nights were worth the hour price tag. There's nothing fancy about this week's Hump Day Power Play . It's simply a solid playlist. Hopefully you agree! Hear it by simply clicking here . Playlist is below. :: Hump Day Power Play (3-14-2012) :: 01 :: "Away Frm U" - Oberhofer 02 :: "Book of Revelation" - The Drums 03 :: "Les [...]

This is the last re-post for the Blogophilia series. Links for the all-in-one zip for Volumes 23-30 are still active and you can download those here . BLOGOPHILIA 22 (promotional songs from blogs and freely available materials) acquired 9/05/2010 – 10/18/2010 ripped @ 320 kbps VBR - All in one zip file here - TRACKLIST (Song [...]

Frank Yang If we're being completely honest, there's a not-insubstantial part of me that wishes that this past weekend's shows by Neutral Milk Hotel bandleader Jeff Mangum at Trinity-St. Paul's had never happened. There was just something poetic about the disappearing act he pulled following In The Aeroplane Over The Sea , as though the album-closing sounds of the guitar being set down, chair being pushed back and footsteps into the distance was of him leaving this plane and taking his rightful place in some cosmic musical pantheon, having created [...]
Jeff Mangum , Elf Power 's Laura Carter, Olivia Tremor Control's Peter Erchick, John Fernandes, and Eric Harris performed under the name The Soap Scums at Athens
Starring in surrealist films? Stumbling upon comic-book cover art? These are just some of the questions answered by Elf Power as they continue to celebrate the release of their 10th album. Not many bands can comfortably talk about the release of their 10th full-length album. Then again, most bands aren't Elf Power. Andrew Rieger's band Elf Power released their eponymous tenth record late last year. Based in Athens, Georgia, they blend the buzz of lo-fi indie sounds into compact narratives with lyrical, off-kilter references. Their slightly experimental rock, densely textured pop, and pastoral psychedelia make them one of the [...]

[Photos courtesy of EardrumNYC ] The Elephant 6 Collective is a unique force in modern American music, a merry band of collaborators whose psychedelic, Beatles-inspired songs continue to resonate with indie aficionados across the globe. If you aren't up for seeing more than 10 bands in one place at one time, you should skip the E6 Holiday Surprise extravaganzas, because over their usual three sets in a given night, they will illuminate and educate you, as well as wear down the unready. This gig at the Knitting Factory was night one of three here in [...]
The best way to get a feel for a band is to hear them live. It's a great way to start a review, too; the presentation is a vivid description of the group's power onstage, a retelling of the moment you realized that driving all the way out to see the show was worth it. [...]

Every other Tuesday, Pooch , one of the three heads behind Thisbonustrack.com will be writing for you about what warrants his “Props.” This can be anything from a musician to a program to a label/studio or ANYTHING, but at the end of the day, this column is nothing but a long-winded recommendation or rant of sorts. I guess as of this week I'm starting my own little dictionary. This has been a long time coming as for the past two or three years, I've developed my own vocabulary that one of [...]

Here's the Elf Power show from Halloween weekend. Catch most (if not all) of the band's members at the Larimer this Saturday, as they come through with the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour . Elf Power 10.30.2010 Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO Source: Microtech Gefell M3002s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave Taped by: Lance Stack Setlist: 1. Like a Cannonball [...]
Let's get this out of the way at the beginning. No, Jeff Mangum did not show up. So if that's the only reason you might care about a review of this show, you can go on your way. If, on the other hand, you like 3-hour shows full of lively music by talented musicians with [...]
I’ve included several of the best of what’s been piling up around me. A couple of these are holdovers from 2010, but please don’t hold that against me. It was a crazy busy December. Hope there’s something of interest to someone here. As always, thanks for reading. Elf Power, S/T (Orange Twin) Athens, GA’s Elf Power has unobtrusively become one of the best bands in America. Founded by Andrew Rieger and Laura Carter in the early 90s and appearing with their debut in ’95, they’...