Photo by You Ain't No Picasso Ever heard of The Apples In Stereo ? The Elephant 6? Robert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine ? Okay, that last one was a children's album that's only tangentially related to this here post, but it just serves to show that Robert Schneider is a seriously busy and talented dude. From kickstarting the whole Elephant 6 collective to pumping out albums full of psychedelic pop-rock-and producing that classic Netural Milk Hotel album we all know and [...]
Sparkling, feather-clad all-out geniuses of Montreal have returned to our ears and hearts with their eleventh full-length album, Paralytic Stalks . After the band's two previous offerings, which marked something of a departure from the accessible pop sound of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? , this new record brings together the old and the new, and fuses together of Montreal's earlier sounds with their forays into more experimental realms. Opener Gelid Ascent is dark and thrashing, laden with effects and heavier than the band's usual sound. Unlike earlier of Montreal albums which have often [...]
Words, videos and photos by Brendan Sullivan This past year, I witnessed somewhere between 80 and 90 concerts, depending on your definition of what qualifies as a "concert" and also on my list-making abilities and forgetfulness. I can't think of any that I genuinely hated. I can think of some that were lackluster, some that I had high hopes for that let me down, some that were fun at the time but leave me with nothing stellar to write about now, and some that were really good but didn't quite make the grade. [...]
Now on Tour By Julie Stoller The Olivia Tremor Control & The Music Tapes Mon, Sept 19, 2011 - Brighton Music Hall The trippy and experimental psych-folk Olivia Tremor Control are playing their first shows since 2005, where they will be previewing some new music from a forthcoming album due out early next year. It will be their first since 1999's Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume [...]
The Olivia Tremor Control, with The Music Tapes / New Hazlett Theater / Thursday 09.15.2011 / 8:00 / $12-$15 Words by Brendan This is by far the coolest giveaway we have done here at Draw Us Lines. First off, we are incredibly psyched that The Olivia Tremor Control are back on the scene, making their first new music since 1999, playing their first live shows in nearly as long, and choosing to swing through Pittsburgh on this tour. I fell into the inviting musical lap of [...]
The Olivia Tremor Control, a psych-rock band from the 1990s, released a new track today titled "The Game You Play Is in Your Head, Parts 1, 2, & 3".
HOLY SHIT. thedreamcomparison : NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL TO RELEASE A VINYL-ONLY BOX SET On November 22, he will self-release a vinyl-only box set compiling the band's entire output, including fifteen previously unreleased tracks. The set includes 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea , the Everything Is EP, an EP comprised of unreleased material, Ferris Wheel on Fire , a picture disk 7" for "Holland, 1945", a 7" featuring two unreleased songs, [...]
It's been nearly twelve years since the Athens, GA experimental, psych-pop band, Olivia Tremor Control released a full-length album. 19992s musical collage, Black Foilage: Animation Music Volume One incorporated nearly every instrument possible, or so it seems and loads of overdubbing and cutting & pasting. The band announced a U.S. tour early this month and here is a portion of an interview with Cullen Hart, Eric Harris and Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control. This interview was printed in James Madison University's student newspaper, The Breeze in late 1999. [...]
Considering all the buzz they've received over the past few months and the gigs they've played supporting the likes of The Decemberists, Iron & Wine and Death Cab For Cutie, it's hard to believe that The Head And The Heart have yet to go out on a headlining tour of their own. The Seattle-based act, who released their self-titled debut earlier this year, will finally embark on their first-ever headlining run this fall, with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down offering support. The [...]
Frank Yang This show was a week ago; I think this may actually be my longest delay between witness and writeup ever and, in fact, Jeff Tweedy's solo tour is just about over. So if you were waiting on some kind of report from opening night at Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Theatre to decide if it was worth picking up one of the few remaining tickets for a later date... I'm sorry. Sorry that you would allow anything I say or do to influence your decision-making - you know I'm drunk most of the time, [...]
[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 Elephant 6 collective: So many associated bands and intertwined musicians, that it's probably easiest just to let the press release speak for itself. Featuring : Will Hart (Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System) / Bill Doss (OTC , Apples In Stereo) / Pete Erchick (OTC) / John Fernandes (OTC) / Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, Music Tapes) / Scott Spillane (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Gerbils) / Robbie Cucchiaro (various E6 bands / Eric Harris (OTC , Elf Power) / Andrew Rieger (Elf Power) [...]
Kicking off the first weekend in March: ► Releasing an album, "Gemini," followed by an EP, "Golden Haze," Virginia's Wild Nothing won a lot of indie hearts last year. Songwriter Jack Tatum and band bring their dream-pop to this month's installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum, where they are support by L.A.'s Abe Vigoda. ► Autolux headlines the Echoplex, with noisy newbies the Soft Moon — that's their video for "Circles," above — opening. ► The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour hits the [...]
Mavis Staples Performs at the Satellite on Thursday Monday 2/28/11 [Pick of the Night] Red Cortez / Richard Swift / Everest / The Dead Trees @ The Satellite (Free) – I'd definitely pay to see Richard Swift and Everest, so free is impossible to beat. [Recommended] Jenny O / Jonathan Wilson / J. Tillman @ Bootleg (Free) – Talented lineup. [...]
Guess it's a week to talk about comebacks from the world of hip-hop, as Lauryn Hill has announced a ten-date Northeast tour that will kick off at the Higher Ground in Burlington, VT on December 18. The semi-reclusive Hill, who is rumored to be working on the long-awaited follow up to her seminal debut The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill , emerged this past summer to play a handful of shows as part of the Rock The Bells tour to favorable reviews. Hill will focus [...]
Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Is Coming to the Satellite in February Long Beach Performing Arts Center 3/8/11: Jackson Browne solo acoustic tour (now) The Music Box 2/16/11: Beach House (Thursday at 10 AM) The Satellite [f/k/a Club Spaceland] (tix at Ticketfly) 1/13/11: Fu Manchu / Dusted Angel 1/20/11: Young Prisms / Melted Toys (now) 3/4/11: [...]
Well this seems like a good place to round out Elephant 6 week — a band that exists mostly in the dream realm. Combining wax cylinders and wire recorders with talk of aliens and astral visions, we get a fantastical collision of a re-imagined earthbound past and interdimensional possibilities. Somewhere between a twisted lullaby and the will to change the grammar of consciousness. (Mang.) Ending this little journey, I don't know whether I'm coming home or blasting off again. The Music Tapes - Nomad Tell Us
Here's a band that had so many ideas they seemed to stumble over themselves getting to them all at once. The Black Foliage album is kind of their masterpiece, but its dense restlessness makes me a little queasy. Too often it ends up screwing with its ideas before the listener has a moment to absorb them. And then there are the 10+ minute tape experiments, which are...you know. Bummer, because there are some stellar moments, like this track. I had this one in queue, and some recent sleep deprivation has given it extra resonance [...]
The Apples in Stereo are probably the most straightforward of the E6 bunch. Which is just fine when you write sterling pop songs. I suspect that if '60s jangle pop hadn't existed, guys like these would probably have invented it. Give me angelic bah-bah s and a chorus full of burly horns, and I'm a happy Songblague. The Apples in Stereo - Silver Chain
I've been listening to a bunch of Elephant 6 bands lately. For those unfamiliar, here's a little primer on what that circle of bands was all about. Something still appeals to me about a group of creative folks fumbling around with nascent ideas, consolidating influences, making some stuff, and then scattering out into many permutations to give their musical whims the proper attention. With some distance from the heyday of that scene, my fondness only grows. No need to bother with descriptions of the "Elephant 6 sound." [...]
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