Last June, the legendary New Zealand musician Chris Knox suffered a "series" of strokes. A few months later, we posted Jeff Mangum's cover of the Tall Dwarfs gem "Sign The Dotted Line," a take that…   Read Story »

When I was a teenager I was deeply into hardcore and then SST-related bands, noise, and anything I could find that was slightly off-kilter in those old Ajax catalogs (Sun City Girls, Thinking…   Read Story »

Will Cullen Hart is making everybody really happy this week. The E6 principal has been doing interviews with EW.com and Pitchfork in support of Circulatory System's long-awaited second proper album,…   Read Story »

If you love R.E.M. and weren't at Carnegie Hall last night, you should probably do a better job at loving R.E.M. The evening was billed as a tribute to the Athenian eye-smilers, which meant…   Read Story »

NPR is streaming the 10/21 Bottom Lounge stop on the recent E6 Holiday Surprise Tour. Tunes from Olivia Tremor Control, Apples In Stereo, Music Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel and other Athens all-stars…   Read Story »

There's been plenty of dark video documentation of Jeff Mangum's recent Holiday Surprise Tour surprise appearances, but now that these performances are no longer a surprise, it appears people are…   Read Story »

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We've checked in with Music Tapes a few times this year, and before that got all sincere over In The Aeroplane's 10th birthday, but things have been fairly quiet on the Jeff Mangum front in '08.…   Read Story »

Neutral Milk Hotel's opus turns ten this Sunday. Feel old? If you love it, it's one of those albums that imprints itself on your psyche. One of us remembers exactly where he was when he brought it…   Read Story »