Video: Elephant 6 Collective at Knitting Factory NYC 10-11-08

Tiny Mix Tapes reports that Neutral Milk Hotel leader Jeff Mangum performed three songs in New York with Julian Koster's "Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise" tour: He came on stage and sang on part of Olivia Tremor Control's "I Have Been...

While I was on a Brooklyn pier watching aerialists and Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of Indie Rock Celebrity Bumpwatching 2008 (sigh) on Saturday night, New York's Knitting Factory was playing host to the Holiday Surprise tour, on which various members of the Elephant 6 collective—including Julian Koster of the Music Tapes/Chocolate USA, Will Hart and Eric Harris of Olivia Tremor Control, and Scott Spillane of seemingly every Elephant 6 band's brass section (as well as the Gerbils)—performed the songs that made me wear down many a CD back in the day. And wouldn't you know it, Jeff [...]

Hey everyone, it's a Jeff Mangum sighting! These days, it's rarer to see the former Neutral Milk Hotel frontman than it is to see Bigfoot. On Saturday, Mangum showed his ...

Shouldn't come as too much of a shock, but Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel-- a guy who values his privacy and doesn't often appear onstage-- joined his old friends on the " Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour " for their stop last night at New York's Knitting Factory. The video and sound are a bit hard to make out, but it looks as though that's him on the right in the flannel shirt shouting along through Olivia Tremor Control's terrific "The Opera House" (there's no missing Mangum's former bandmate, the bearded Scott Spillane, anyway). He's [...]

We've checked in with Music Tapes a few times this year, and before that got all sincere over In The Aeroplane 's 10th birthday , but things have been fairly quiet on the Jeff Mangum front in '08. (Though the Neutral Milk Hotel founder did get married in January.) So we were surprised to get so many e-mails about him this morning! Jeff made his first onstage NYC appearance in years at last night's Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour ("a large gathering of Elephant 6 members playing the music of The Music Tapes, Circulatory System, [...]