In the summer of 2004, Kevin Barnes was in need of some encouragement. After eight years and six albums, their Athens, Georgia-based indie band, Of Montreal, was just beginning to put together an audience. Barnes, newly married with a baby on the way, wasn’t sure it made sense to keep …
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Will Cullen Hart always seemed like he existed outside of time. The beloved Southern musician and visual artist, who died at age 53 on Nov. 29, spent his life writing and recording some of the most stunningly profound, beautifully naïve psychedelic music ever made. He was at the heart of …
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Will Cullen Hart, a founding member of bands the Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System and a co-founder of the Elephant 6 music collective, died at 53 on Nov. 29 from natural causes. The news was confirmed by Apples in Stereo musician Robert Schneider in a lengthy Facebook post that …
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Anna “Nesey” Gallons, a musician who has been associated with the Athens, Georgia-based Elephant 6 collective since the 2000s, made an Instagram post on July 9 accusing Neutral Milk Hotel bassist Julian Koster of grooming her as a teenager and sexually assaulting her. “I began to communicate by telephone and …
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The Elephant 6 crew talk about hearing Neutral Milk Hotel’s landmark In the Aeroplane Over the Sea for the first time in this exclusive clip from the upcoming documentary about the storied indie rock label. The long-in-the-works The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary hits theaters on August 25, telling the …
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