Neutral Milk Hotel News

Jason Giles, leader of the Portland chapter of LGBT Mormon group Affirmation, says Portland's gay Mormon community is more robust, cohesive, and visible than in similar cities like San Francisco.

Someone's in love with Lady Gaga. We awoke this morning to new YouTube-age from Ms.

Happy birthday to Ferguson Jenkins, who turns 67 today. If you don't know who Fergie Jenkins is, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog.

Hot on the heels of posting new, decade-old live video of Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind Jeff Mangum, Merge has released Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox .

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He's been called at turns a ``musical outlier'' and ``the Willy Wonka of the Midwest music scene'' by critics, but one thing the soft-spoken, subtly eccentric musician Julian Koster is not is concerned about is fitting into a traditional mold.

And we're off.. now playing metaradio seems to be down, the webpage times out for me both on my pc and from my phone.

The Elephant 6 collective has produced plenty of legendary weirdness including its flagship bands, Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal.

I first heard Circulatory System seven years ago while I was in college. I borrowed a bunch of alt-country albums from a professor of mine that changed my life.

Unearthed Neutral Milk Hotel Live Footage * Watch well-recorded videos of NMH doing "Two-Headed Boy" and "April 8th" at the old Knitting Factory on March 7, 1998 via Merge , the label that just released On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over The Sea on 180 gram vinyl.

Mentioning that a specific band bears a sonic resemblance to Neutral Milk Hotel might not be a blessing in certain snobbier music circles, and it might draw particular ire in the town that spawned the demented underground beauty of Jeff Mangum and his equally talented mates.

Welcome to a week of fancy reissues and box sets. Everyone's been abuzz about Nirvana 's Bleach reissue.

London-based Noah and the Whale has been dishing out their wistfully gentle indie/anti/nu/pop-folk for a mere three years.

So, your last show is this Saturday, October 24 at the Bluebird. I understand that circumstance dictates it, but it makes me sad.

The band mainly consists of percussionist Jeremy Barnes and violinist Heather Trost .

The man behind the drum kit on Neutral Milk Hotel's famed In The Aeroplane Over The Sea , Jeremy Barnes is now half of the core duo behind New Mexico's idiosyncratic A Hawk And A Hacksaw.

Yet somehow, despite all those exotic influences - and bits of Howard Hughes imagery and orchestral splashes of Neutral Milk Hotel and Beirut , to boot - Fanfarlo's debut, "Reservoir" , manages to sound remarkably run-of-the-mill. "Reservoir" has its moments.

Our Noise , the history of Merge Records as told by those who were there October 8, 2009 at 4:24 pm by Cooper Levey-Baker If one quote from the new oral history Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small sums up why Merge Records - and indies like it - are thriving while the major labels are collapsing, ...

Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power are among the performers at this year's Orange Twin Fall Festival.

Hearing Neutral Milk Hotel via audiophile-quality vinyl for the first time will be a triumphant yet defeating moment.