( photo credit )* Last night I saw Jeff Mangum perform live, something which I've always dreamed of but never thought in a million years would do. I was just entering my teens when Neutral Milk Hotel broke up (shortly after releasing their landmark album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea ). It was a few more years until I discovered the band, but they were incredibly formative in my musical development. It always saddened me that, due to Jeff Mangum's legendary disappearance from the music world post-breakup, I would never get the chance to see the [...]
Our generation has grown up with some certainties about the bands we'll never see. No matter what, we'll never see the Beatles live, and there's nothing we can do about Nirvana; if we didn't make it already, we've missed our chance. Until recently, that list of impossible things included Jeff Mangum , indie rock hero and lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel , who legendarily disappeared from the public eye over 10 years ago, leaving his records to circulate in the ether, quietly gathering an ever-larger following. On a Tuesday in February (or, last night), the [...]
Photo by Nick PintoJeff MangumState Theatre, MinneapolisSaturday, February 4, 2012 With Saturday's performance at the State Theater, Jeff Mangum ended the long and curious estrangement from his publ
What joy we festival lovers received today! Aye, the line-ups for two of the best festivals of the summer, Sasquatch and Primavera Sound, were released, and are they ever a gift from the festival deities on high. Both are absolutely stuffed with bands that we love and have been geeking out over for months if not years. Sasquatch, one of our favorite line-ups from last year as well, boasts artists that will sound breathtaking in the Gorge. The dreams you have about seeing Bon Iver under the stars and surrounded by landscapes as picturesque [...]
This is going to be a Super Bowl Weekend...of music. Let's just hope the Black Eyed Peas don't show up. Madonna, on the other hand...
Sun Ra Arkestra, Oneohtrix Point Never and Feathers have been added to the Jeff Mangum curated ATP festival , which takes place this March. The book selection for the Book Club has also been chosen, with the following titles on the list for discussion: * Aurélia - Gérard de Nerval (1855) * The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I - Roger Shattuck (1968) * Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness - Daniel Paul Schreber (1903) * One [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: The Kills w/ JEFF the Brotherhood, Hunters Wednesday, February 1 The Masquerade - 695 North Avenue in Atlanta 30308 Admission $20 / Purchase Tickets You'd think that Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince would have run out of ideas by now. After all their, set-up is so simple—just some guitars and a drum machine cranking out punchy, pop-infused blues jams. But over the course of their four studio albums and four EPs, the duo have managed to turn their decidedly [...]
Con la adición de Demdike Stare, Death Grips, Lee Ranaldo, Beirut, John Talabot y Refused, el cartel del Primavera Sound 2012 cada vez toma mejor forma. Entre las bandas que ya habían sido anunciadas para el festival están Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, The Drums, Guided By Voices, The xx, Neon Indian, Josh T. Pearson, Death In Vegas, Veronica Falls y Mudhoney. Acá pueden ver el lineup completo del festival .
here we meet again. so, mr mangum is doin some dates. not many dates, mind you, but enough to get some really smart people to spend their hard earned cash to travel to these dates. maybe its just me, and it just may be, but i was a huge, huge, huge fan of neutral milk hotel in my 202s, but now that im on the wrong side of 35, they/he just doesnt ring the same bell as they used to. sure, its still great stuff, but it just doesnt speak to me the way it used to. this time 10 [...]
Jeff Mangum is a recluse, and he looks and acts the part. For years, that status has added a layer of alluring mystery to his various projects, from Neutral Milk Hotel to Elephant 6 and even to the charity organization, Children Of The Blue Sky, that he supports. Yet, 16 years after his first album with Neutral Milk Hotel, it's absurd to assert that Mangum sells out shows in seconds merely because of mystique. In fact, even after over a decade out of the spotlight, it seems that the intimacy in Mangum's music is what brings out the fans—not his [...]
The bearded and flanneled came out in packs last night to the Irvine Auditorium at the University of Penn. Jeff Mangum performed plenty of the classic Neutral Milk Hotel material that most of never thought we'd experience live. The set included all of the gems off In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and some tracks from NMH's other releases. Thanks to R5 Productions for ensuring that Philly got to see a Mangum show locally rather than traveling to NY or DC. The venue may not have served booze, but it was a great [...]
The night is finally here. Jeff Mangum will play a solo show over at Irvine Auditorium in University City. R5 released a few extra tickets earlier this week that also got sold instantly. The show originally sold out in 23 seconds and all tickets are will call, which has helped reduce the number of scalped tickets you usually see for shows like this. I never thought I'd hear the tracks off In The Aeroplane Over The Sea live but it's going down tonight. Rumor has it Mangum's shows have a strict no recording policy, [...]
Tonight, Jeff Mangum plays the show that sold out in 35 seconds . That statistic is impressive for a number of reasons, including the fact that it broke Mangum's rumored previous record of selling out tickets to a New York show in one minute last year. His band Neutral Milk Hotel was undeniably a staple in the late '90s indie-rock scene, and Mangum's other famous project, Elephant 6 Records, is easily a legend and a beacon to lovers of lo-fi. But still, one has to marvel at that statistic: 35 seconds is unbelievable, regardless of Magnum's arguably [...]
Esta mañana se anunció a The Cure como acto principal para la noche del viernes en el Festival Primavera Sound 2012 en Barcelona, España. Robert Smith y compañía forman parte del lineup junto con actos de la talle de: Björk, Mayhem, Sleep, Godflesh, The XX, The Dirty Three y Wolves In The Throne Room, en uno de los festivales con mayor reconocimiento en suelo europeo. Este año, el Primavera Sound ocurrirá del 30 de mayo al 3 de junio. Todos los detalles se pueden consultar en el sitio oficial del Festival. [...]
Jeff Mangum kicks off his sold out three-night run at BAM with The Music Tapes tonight (1/19). The Brooklyn shows are part of a longer tour for the two Neutral Milk Hotel bandmates. Updated dates, Philly included, are listed below. Jeff himself is auctioning away 2 pairs of tickets for Saturday's (1/21) show! Each pair also comes with 2 original signed Jeff Mangum drawings. The tickets are being auctioned on ebay with a current bid (as of this post) of $300 and the proceeds [...]
Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind, Jeff Mangum is donating 4 tickets from his personal guest list for Saturday night's sold-out BAM show , along with 4 of his original, signed drawings. Proceeds go to support Occupied Real Estate , an art and activism project addressing the foreclosure crisis, by arts collective Not An Alternative in partnership with the Occupy Wall Street movement. You can find the eBay auction listings here and here.
Filed under: News Frazer Harrison, Getty Images Having wrapped up 2011 with a week-long string of New York City dates, the National will curate and perform at this year's All Tomorrow's Parties set for Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, England from December 7-9. The first batch of artists confirmed includes the Antlers , Sharon Van Etten , Kronos Quartet, Boris, Tim Hecker and Owen Pallett . Wye Oak , [...]
Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum launches his first national tour since 1998 today. Unfortunately, none of the shows are in St. Louis -- he'll play a pair at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago on... Continue reading "Jeff Mangum's Tour Kicks Off Today" >
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There isn't a ton going on in the city this week in the world of indie music, but the good gigs are going to more than make up for that! Don't miss Caveman , Sharon Van Etten , and Portugal. The Man ! If this is your first time checking out our picks for best NYC concerts, make sure to check back each week. We won't list everything that's going on - just a short list of great shows happening in our city that you shouldn't miss this week. And to make [...]
The rescheduled Jeff Mangum ATP festival (which takes place in March) has a bunch of new additions for you to sink your teeth into. They'll join the likes of Joanna Newsom, Boredoms, Low, Yann Tiersen, Jeff Mangum (obviously) and loads more. Mount Eerie, Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), Matana Roberts, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) performing Gavin Bryars' Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Rafael Toral and Yamantaka - Sonic Titan. Mangum will also curate the Reds venue at Butlins on the Saturday of the event, [...]
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