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The Apples In Stereo The shiny pop centerpiece of the famed Elephant 6 collective, The Apples In Stereo was born of Robert Schneider 's infatuation with sound and his near pathological compulsion to write the perfect pop song.

The Apples in Stereo will take a look back at past accomplishments before it releases its next attempt to write the perfect pop song.

Major Organ and the Adding Machine. We're not going to shit on Elephant 6. The Athens-based music collective, which held in its orbit such mind-bogglingly pure bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, and Apples in Stereo, produced most of the pop music worth listening to throughout the 1990s.

Know what's really Creepy? Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet huffing nitrous and shrieking, "I SAID DON'T LOOK AT ME." But that is such a good movie.

Elijah Wood Elijah played the part of Frodo Baggins. Since the trilogy, Lij has appeared in a variety of very different roles in films including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Sin City , Everything Is Illuminated and Bobby .

Robert Schneider, frontman of popular indie rock band Apples in Stereo, brings his brand of catchy, upbeat tunes and bizarro bloops and bleeps to his children's debut on Little Monster Records, the label responsible for Medeski, Martin, & Wood's excellent kid's release last year.

The Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider was as surprised as anyone to learn that this season's American Idol contestants sang his song "Energy" in a Ford ad during last night's show .

Rapid-painter and art world nose-thumber Steve Keene, a Yale University-trained printmaker and painter, hits Louisville March 31 with one of his semi-automated assembly lines of painting at The Green Building Gallery on East Market Street.

Sometimes you need to put down the Fender, turn off the Arp, and make some simple music for little kids.

If you could transcend money, practicality, family commitments, golfing schedules and death to put together a dream list of bands willing to doff their caps to REM at a tribute gig, youa d have U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, a reformed Pavement and a resurrected Nirvana on the line-up. Such big names might be absent from the hallowed Carnegie Hall stage ...

R.E.M. appeared at Carnegie Hall. March 12, 2009 09:46 AM ET Michael D. Ayers, N.Y. R.E.M. made a surprise appearance last night at Carnegie Hall.

The first time I saw Times New Viking was when they opened for The Arcade Fire at Little Brother's. AF was just starting to get some attention, and the show was probably only 50% full.

I could blab about The Genius File - who will be releasing a new album in the spring - but Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider is much more trustworthy and influential than me.

Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet have been recording together for more than three decades, and it shows in their effortless professionalism and careless whimsy.

REMEMBER WHEN YOUR kindergarten music room had all your favorite instruments: the xylophone, the woodblock, the sandpaper, the oscillating string-o-phone? The oscillating what, you ask? Robbert Bobbert , ...

Last December, I reviewed the debut children's album from Robert Schneider , Robert Bobbert & the Bubble Machine .

On the 1996 benefit album Sweet Relief II: The Gravity of the Situation , the songs of Vic Chesnutt were covered by everybody from Madonna to R.E.M. to the Smashing Pumpkins to the Indigo Girls.

On January 13, Montclair, New Jersey played host to the eighth annual Independent Music Awards , where independent artists from around the world compete in more than fifty award categories.

It's still a nasty multinational company flogging unhealthy products, but I couldn't help being impressed with new look Pepsi is rolling out for its colas.