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06/13/10--10:50: New Elf Power: Stranger in the Window (chan 1369831)

Elf Power have made public the song “Stranger in the Window,” from their upcoming 10th full-length album, called, simply, Elf Power (Sept. 14, Orange Twin Records):


06/14/10--12:43: Supercluster Summer Tour (chan 1369831)

Supercluster, the Athens supergroup fronted by Pylon’s Vanessa Hay (and including members of Circulatory System, of Montreal, Sound Houses, and Casper & the Cookies), is playing outside of Georgia for the first time as they tour alongside none other than the B-52’s.  Here are the upcoming Supercluster dates (a few more dates will be added [...]


06/16/10--05:04: Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox for Only $3.99 at Amazon (chan 1369831)

Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox, the superior 2-disc tribute album to the Tall Dwarf’s Knox (and featuring E6 luminaries Jeff Mangum and Bill Doss, anong many other artists), is for today only available for purchase for $3.99 on Amazon.com as their “deal of the day.” If you haven’t picked this up yet, now’s a [...]


06/18/10--08:23: Major Organ DVD/Expanded CD Gets a Release Date (chan 1369831)

Over the last couple of years, perhaps the only E6 parlor game more popular than “when will that second Circulatory System album come out?” (followed rapidly by “when will that Circulatory System bonus LP come out?”) is “when will the Major Organ and the Adding Machine DVD/Expanded CD come out?”  But, honestly, the great thing [...]


07/02/10--10:02: Sneak Preview: Folklore’s Home Church Road (chan 1369831)

After World War Three, and a great geological upheaval on the Earth, mankind becomes extinct, and the animals take over once more: the birds, the deer, the cows, the ants, and a creature named Loki, who rises among them, and proceeds to manipulate them with his “magic.” It’s not the stuff of a lost 1970’s [...]


07/02/10--11:36: A Last Message from Optical Atlas (chan 1369831)

In 1999 I really wanted to have my own Elephant 6 band. Listening to The Olivia Tremor Control’s Dusk at Cubist Castle, The Apples in Stereo’s Her Wallpaper Reverie, and of course Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I thought–this is what I would love to do. I want to make albums [...]