Video: Jeff Mangum, Engine live at Coachella 2012

By all accounts last weekend's Coachella festival was rather good. As well as the brilliant set by Bon Iver ( see previous blog post ), the weekend also saw a great set by Neutral Milk Hotel frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder Jeff Mangum . Mangum doesn't do many gigs nowadays so his show was an extra special treat for fans lucky enough [...]

Here is Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel , performing "In An Aeroplane Over The Sea" live for Coachella, as the sun disappears under the horizon. It's a beautiful thing. Watch it below, and check out "Engine" under that. Jeff Mangum - "Engine"

It's not every day you can catch a Jeff Mangum performance, let alone at a festival as grand as Coachella. Footage of the Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind playing "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and "Engine" have found their way online, check them both out below. Sadly, no, the whole group does not appear, but these are very cool nonetheless. "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea": "Engine":

Jeff Mangum performed this past weekend at Coachella, and even though a new Neutral Milk Hotel album isn't likely to surface anytime soon, at least we have Mangum knocking out some old favorites like "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea", "Two-Headed Boy", as well as "Engine", the B-side to Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 "Holland, 1945" single. Watch Mangum's performances below. Read more »

If you saw JEFF MANGUM during his solo tour -- the one that landed him in Boston and Cambridge last fall -- you pretty much saw what he did at Coachella. In terms of surprises: he's added a brass... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .