The news of Neutral Milk Hotel's long-hoped-for reunion landed like a bomb last week, but the band only announced five live dates. Two were in the tiny Athens 40 Watt Club, two were overseas, and…   Read Story »

When Jeff Mangum, once the reclusive leader of the great Georgia indie rock cult heroes Neutral Milk Hotel, started playing solo shows again, it was a very big deal. Well, this is bigger: He has once…   Read Story »

Last night, New York's Le Poisson Rouge hosted a live-on-the-internet telethon from Strike Debt, an Occupy Wall Street-affiliated nonprofit that's attempting to relieve regular people's insane debt…   Read Story »

In the June 2, 2012 issue of the NME, Kevin Shields said the long-awaited third album from My Bloody Valentine –- the first since 1991's classic Loveless –- is imminent. The UK mag quotes Shields…   Read Story »

James Mercer now has an entirely new Shins band backing him up, and now some of his former confederates are teaming up. Former Shins members Marty Crandall and Neal Langford now lead a new band…   Read Story »

The presence of the former Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum is one of the real curveballs in this year's Coachella lineup. All Tomorrow's Parties events aside, the once-reclusive Mangum…   Read Story »

Jeff Mangum, who has sort of been all over the place lately after years and years of silence, announced more tour dates through March of 2012 as well as details for the rescheduled UK ATP. Check out…   Read Story »

Time is a valuable thing, and the musicians who can make a quick point in a short amount of time deserve their props. We've put together a quick list of ten excellent songs from indie's past (and…   Read Story »

Not so reclusive, all of the sudden, are we? After a successful stint at ATP, Jeff Mangum is back to post another unreleased track on his webpage, as he's done with the unreleased demos for "Engine"…   Read Story »

Jeff Mangum surprised the Occupy Wall Street protestors late Tuesday night for an eight-song set of singalongs. I'm not sure if this makes up for the whole Radiohead hoax, but plenty of people were…   Read Story »