On its way to you in a triumphant spiral of zeros and ones through that strange nether universe from which all things computery come is the new Music Tapes video, “For the Planet Pluto.”Featuring the tasteful backup vocals of the 4th graders of Barrow Elementary School in Athens, GA, "For the Planet Pluto" stars Kiran Fernandes and Sophie Fernandes, reunited for the first time since starring i
When the Music Tapes tour initially morphed into the Elephant Six Holiday Surprise Tour, I found the news a little bittersweet. As much as I love the E6 crew, I was really hoping for a "proper" Music Tapes tour since I'm so ridiculously obsessed with Julian Koster's latest Music Tapes album, Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes (TMT Review). I HATE that I haven't seen The Music Tapes live yet....
Photo by Danielle Yessss. It's getting to the point where I'm just praying everything that happens today has a Lexington connection. Now with the official announcement that the Music Tapes will be playing Lex, I think it's safe to call it as such. The Music Tapes will be bringing a traveling crew of quite a few [...]~~
Julian Koster : resident of the Neutral Milk Hotel, founder of Music Tapes, and friend to singing saws everywhere didn't just make that singing saw Christmas album I mentioned. His band Music Tapes also made a new record called For Clouds & Tornadoes to be released by Merge on Tuesday, and you can hear the whole thing at their website for free by clicking here . Also, if you're in New Yo...
--- - |- It's been nine years since Neutral Milk Hotel singing-saw-wielder Julian Koster released 1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad, his debut as the Music Tapes. While his work since then has included writing a story album called 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, that is not the release he has chosen for his Nomad follow-up. That would be Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes, which is du...
God bless Julian Koster. God bless him and his completely unaffected by anything, no frills, no nonsense approach to playing music. The Music Tapes have said to hell with guarantees and rock clubs, and tickets, and all that, and have announced their plan to do a tour beginning tonight in which they will be traveling from city to city "caroling" playing songs from their newly released collect...
--- - |- It's been nine years since Neutral Milk Hotel singing-saw-wielder Julian Koster released 1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad, his debut as the Music Tapes. While his work since then has included writing a story album called 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, that is not the release he has chosen for his Nomad follow-up. That would be Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes, which is du...
Photo by Danielle Yessss. It's getting to the point where I'm just praying everything that happens today has a Lexington connection. Now with the official announcement that the Music Tapes will be playing Lex, I think it's safe to call it as such. The Music Tapes will be bringing a traveling crew of quite a few [...]~~
Photo by Danielle What Daft Punk at Coachella 2006 is for the dance crowd and Radiohead at Bonnaroo 2006 is for anyone with a soul, the Music Tapes at PopFest 2008 is to fans of lo-fi indie pop: a legendary show. I had numerous friends come back from this show with stories that frequently involved the [...]~~
Julian Koster : resident of the Neutral Milk Hotel, founder of Music Tapes, and friend to singing saws everywhere didn't just make that singing saw Christmas album I mentioned. His band Music Tapes also made a new record called For Clouds & Tornadoes to be released by Merge on Tuesday, and you can hear the whole thing at their website for free by clicking here . Also, if you're in New Yo...