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Thanks to Kevin Cannon for pointing out this video from Robbert Bobbert, children's music alter ego of Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider.

Though deserving of other, more flattering titles, "Signal Morning" will go down as 2009's unlikeliest record.

Last week, The Apples In Stereo released a best of CD called #1 Hits Explosion .

This current psychedelic-rock project of former Olivia Tremor Control members - which was one of the key bands in the tightly knit and highly collaborative Elephant Six collective, also containing Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, and Apples in Stereo .

Quickie CD Reviews: ScarJo and Yorn, Apples in Stereo and Juliette Lewis September 4, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Ivan Pena Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn Break Up Inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn teams up with actress Scarlett Johansson for Break Up , a sweetly-produced and easy-to-enjoy album.

The new release list this week is fairly paltry, whereas next week following Labor Day offers a bounty of riches to kick off the fall music season, highlighted by the reissue of the entire Beatles catalogue.

Conventional wisdom says that Apples in Stereo's long-held love of pure pop, psychedelia and massive, gooey guitars helped lay the foundation for the '00s indie-pop revolution.

THE APPLES IN STEREO still have some time left to shape their legacy, but history is smiling favorably upon them already.

Charter members of the lo-fi/indie mother lode Elephant 6 Collective , The Apples in Stereo formed in Denver in 1993 and -- in between assorted side projects -- have released seven full-length discs since.

Denver power-pop band Dressy Bessy may have taken its name from the 1970s Playskool doll but this band is definitely not toying around.

The songs that get into one's head are far too often of the unoriginal and vapid variety.

Dancing About Architecture 07.07.09 Posted by Ian Wright on 07.07.2009 Michael Jackson , new albums from Lou Barlow, The Apples In Stereo, Boston Spaceships, a free MP3 from a Sigur Ros side project and more.

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 .