Jeff Mangum
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Jeff Mangum is a musician
best known for being the lyricist, vocalist and guitarist of the band Neutral Milk Hotel
, as well as being one of the cofounders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Mangum, along with the other founding members of the Elephant 6, attended Ruston High School
in the late 1980s. The friends shared a passion for acts of the 1960s, most notably The Zombies
and Donovan
, as well as an affinity for later alternative rock
bands such as Sonic Youth
and the Minutemen
. They reflected these influences in the tapes they recorded and shared with each other, forming the seeds of what would become the Elephant 6 Collective. He is married to Astra Taylor
, best known for making the documentary film
Žižek!
about the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek
.
was born after the disbandment of Synthetic Flying Machine
, with an original line-up of Will Cullen Hart
and Bill Doss
on guitar and bass and Jeff Mangum on drums. Around 1995 Mangum left Synthetic Flying Machine
to focus on his own songs. A year of intensive songwriting (some of it accomplished, according to Mangum, while he was living in a haunted closet) in Denver, Colorado
with Robert Schneider
at his Pet Sounds Studio
resulted in his debut album, On Avery Island
, released in 1996, consisting mostly of Schneider and Mangum playing with friends. Mangum eventually expanded the line up of Neutral Milk Hotel and in 1998 released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
.
in 1998 after a tour in support of their latest album. Mangum has kept largely out of the public eye since, only rarely playing acoustic sets and concentrating more on his recorded sound and music collages.
In March 2001, Mangum and Julian Koster
(also formerly of Neutral Milk Hotel
) contributed to an album called Major Organ and the Adding Machine
. Other involved players were Kevin Barnes
from the band of Montreal
, Eric Harris
and Will Cullen Hart
of Olivia Tremor Control, and Elf Power
's Andrew Rieger.
In the summer of 2001, Mangum released a compilation of field recordings of Bulgaria
n folk music
called Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I
followed by a live album on the Orange Twin label, Live at Jittery Joe's
. The set was recorded by filmmaker Lance Bangs
in 1997 and was put out to combat the exorbitant sums that Neutral Milk Hotel live albums were selling for on eBay
. The CD features a QuickTime
movie of the concert performance, featuring a backlit Mangum seen mostly in silhouette throughout the video. In 2005, Live at Jittery Joe's was released on LP by Isota Records.
In the summer and fall of 2002, Mangum hosted several radio shows featuring tape loops and other recordings on Jersey City, New Jersey radio station WFMU
.
On September 19, 2006 it was announced that Mangum would contribute to The Apples in Stereo's
new album New Magnetic Wonder
. Mangum is reported to be playing "drums, cow object, backing vocals, handclaps". Mangum also contributed drums to the Circulatory System
album, Signal Morning
, released in September 2009.
In October 2008, Mangum performed the song "Engine" on several stops of the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour. Prior to these performances, he had not played Neutral Milk Hotel songs in public since 2001. At the Lexington, KY stop, Mangum, Scott Spillane and Julian Koster led concertgoers outside the venue to a nearby tree. Prior to playing Engine, the group surprised the audience with Neutral Milk Hotel's "The Fool". This was, effectively, the closest thing to a Neutral Milk Hotel performance since 1998.
In December 2009, Mangum contributed the song "Sign the Dotted Line" to a Chris Knox
tribute album titled Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox.
On May 6, 2010, Mangum played a 25-minute acoustic set at a Chris Knox benefit show at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. He played: "Oh Comely,"
"A Baby for Pree/Where You'll Find Me Now," "Two Headed Boy pt. 2," "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and as an encore, "Engine." It was also announced it was not the start of a comeback, but a one time performance to benefit his friend Chris Knox.
On December 4, 2010, Mangum played a 10 song set at a loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn including 6 songs from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Engine.
On August 12 and 13, 2011, Mangum played full sets at Trinity-St.Paul's United Church in Toronto, Ontario. Both shows were opened by members of the Elephant 6 Collective. Mangum played very similar sets at the two shows, performing several songs from Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and "On Avery Island". During the show on August 12, Mangum also played a cover of Daniel Johnston's "True love will find you in the end". Mangum performed "Engine" as an encore at both shows.
On 30 September 2011, Mangum will be playing a full set at All Tomorrow's Parties
in Asbury Park, NJ. This will be followed by a solo set by Mangum on October 3, 2011 at the Paramount Theatre. Jeff will be curating the ATP
event at Butlins Holiday Park, Minehead
between the 2nd and 4 December 2011, other bands from the Elephant 6 collective have already been announced to support including Apples In Stereo and The Olivia Tremor Control
On February 16, 2011, Mangum announced a solo tour in Summer/Fall of 2011.
On April 20, 2011, Robert Schneider
debuted a score composed by Mangum for the Teletron, an instrument Schneider had invented. It is unknown whether the composition will have an official release.
On August 26, 2011, Mangum launched the website walkingwallofwords.com, where he is self-releasing a box set of Neutral Milk Hotel albums and unreleased tracks, as well as one-of-a-kind drawings and a radio show he curated.
On October 4, 2011, Mangum made an appearance at Zuccotti Park
in New York City and played several songs to the protesters participating in Occupy Wall Street
.
On October 27, 2011, Mangum (who is vegan) performed a benefit show for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
best known for being the lyricist, vocalist and guitarist of the band Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
, as well as being one of the cofounders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Mangum, along with the other founding members of the Elephant 6, attended Ruston High School
Ruston High School
Ruston High School is a 4 year public high school located in the Lincoln Parish School District of Ruston, Louisiana, United States. The school has an enrollment of approximately 1200 students with 85 faculty members; the mascot is the bearcat. The school colors are red and white. Black students...
in the late 1980s. The friends shared a passion for acts of the 1960s, most notably The Zombies
The Zombies
The Zombies are an English rock band, formed in 1961 in St Albans and led by Rod Argent, on piano and keyboards, and vocalist Colin Blunstone. The group scored a UK and US hit in 1964 with "She's Not There"...
and Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
, as well as an affinity for later alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
bands such as Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
and the Minutemen
Minutemen (band)
Minutemen were an American hardcore punk band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985...
. They reflected these influences in the tapes they recorded and shared with each other, forming the seeds of what would become the Elephant 6 Collective. He is married to Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for her 2005 film, Zizek!, about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and for her 2008 film, Examined Life....
, best known for making the documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Žižek!
Žižek!
Zizek!, sometimes written as Žižek!, is a 2005 American/Canadian documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. Its subject is philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, a prolific author and former candidate for the Presidency of Slovenia in the Council of Presidents of Yugoslavia.Zizek! premiered at...
about the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
.
With Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk HotelNeutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
was born after the disbandment of Synthetic Flying Machine
Synthetic Flying Machine
Synthetic Flying Machine was an early project of the The Olivia Tremor Control's Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss, and Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum. The band later went on to become known as the Olivia Tremor Control, before Mangum eventually left to focus upon Neutral Milk Hotel...
, with an original line-up of Will Cullen Hart
Will Cullen Hart
William "Will" Cullen Hart is one of the co-founders of the Elephant Six Collective, as well as the rock band The Olivia Tremor Control...
and Bill Doss
Bill Doss
Bill Doss is among the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, based in Athens, Georgia, and one of the key creative forces behind The Olivia Tremor Control, one of the leaders of the collective, and later, following the band's break-up, The Sunshine Fix...
on guitar and bass and Jeff Mangum on drums. Around 1995 Mangum left Synthetic Flying Machine
Synthetic Flying Machine
Synthetic Flying Machine was an early project of the The Olivia Tremor Control's Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss, and Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum. The band later went on to become known as the Olivia Tremor Control, before Mangum eventually left to focus upon Neutral Milk Hotel...
to focus on his own songs. A year of intensive songwriting (some of it accomplished, according to Mangum, while he was living in a haunted closet) in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
with Robert Schneider
Robert Schneider
Robert Peter Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum...
at his Pet Sounds Studio
Pet Sounds Studio
The Pet Sounds Recording Studio, , was a recording studio located in Lexington, Kentucky , founded by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo and Jim McIntyre of Von Hemmling...
resulted in his debut album, On Avery Island
On Avery Island
-Track listing:All songs written by Jeff Mangum except where noted. Horn arrangements by Robert Schneider.#"Song Against Sex" – 3:40#"You've Passed" – 2:54#"Someone Is Waiting" – 2:31#"A Baby for Pree" – 1:21#"Marching Theme" – 2:58...
, released in 1996, consisting mostly of Schneider and Mangum playing with friends. Mangum eventually expanded the line up of Neutral Milk Hotel and in 1998 released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the second studio album by American indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, released in the United States on February 10, 1998 on Merge Records...
.
After Neutral Milk Hotel
The relative success of the album in addition to the pressures of sudden fame took its toll on Mangum, who disbanded Neutral Milk HotelNeutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
in 1998 after a tour in support of their latest album. Mangum has kept largely out of the public eye since, only rarely playing acoustic sets and concentrating more on his recorded sound and music collages.
In March 2001, Mangum and Julian Koster
Julian Koster
Julian Koster is an American underground musician and storyteller. A member of the Elephant 6 Collective, he is the leader of The Music Tapes, and a former member of Neutral Milk Hotel and Chocolate USA. He is also an influential and long time performer on the singing or Musical Saw...
(also formerly of Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
) contributed to an album called Major Organ and the Adding Machine
Major Organ and the Adding Machine
Major Organ and the Adding Machine is an Elephant 6 supergroup led by the elusive and possibly fictional Major Organ. The liner notes of Major Organ and the Adding Machine, the band's debut album, leave it a mystery as to who is officially featured, and when performing live on the Holiday Surprise...
. Other involved players were Kevin Barnes
Kevin Barnes
Kevin L. Barnes is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the indie rock group Of Montreal, part of the Elephant 6 Collective. Barnes started the band on his own and, although providing several stories as to the origin of the name, is said to have named it after a failed romance...
from the band of Montreal
Of Montreal
Of Montreal is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance with a woman "of Montreal." The band is one of the bands of the Elephant 6 collective...
, Eric Harris
Eric Harris (musician)
Eric Harris is an American musician who played the drums for The Olivia Tremor Control from 1995 to 2000. Harris currently drums for Elf Power.-References:*...
and Will Cullen Hart
Will Cullen Hart
William "Will" Cullen Hart is one of the co-founders of the Elephant Six Collective, as well as the rock band The Olivia Tremor Control...
of Olivia Tremor Control, and Elf Power
Elf Power
Elf Power is an indie rock band that originated in Athens, Georgia. Currently, the line-up consists of guitarist/vocalist Andrew Rieger, keyboardist Laura Carter, guitarist Jimmy Hughes, bassist Derek Almstead, and drummer Eric Harris...
's Andrew Rieger.
In the summer of 2001, Mangum released a compilation of field recordings of Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
called Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I
Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I
Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I is a collection of Bulgarian folk music released by Jeff Mangum, previously of Neutral Milk Hotel. The album contains one track, a little over a half hour of different segments from a single festival.-External links:...
followed by a live album on the Orange Twin label, Live at Jittery Joe's
Live at Jittery Joe's
Live at Jittery Joe's was an album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to battle the high prices of bootlegs on eBay. Filmmaker Lance Bangs recorded it at the Athens, GA venue Jittery Joe's on March 7, 1997 during a live solo performance featuring only Jeff...
. The set was recorded by filmmaker Lance Bangs
Lance Bangs
Lance Bangs is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and...
in 1997 and was put out to combat the exorbitant sums that Neutral Milk Hotel live albums were selling for on eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
. The CD features a QuickTime
QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
movie of the concert performance, featuring a backlit Mangum seen mostly in silhouette throughout the video. In 2005, Live at Jittery Joe's was released on LP by Isota Records.
In the summer and fall of 2002, Mangum hosted several radio shows featuring tape loops and other recordings on Jersey City, New Jersey radio station WFMU
WFMU
WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format...
.
On September 19, 2006 it was announced that Mangum would contribute to The Apples in Stereo's
The Apples in Stereo
The Apples in Stereo, styled The Apples in stereo, is an American indie rock band associated with The Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control. The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Schneider, who writes the...
new album New Magnetic Wonder
New Magnetic Wonder
New Magnetic Wonder is the sixth studio album from The Apples in Stereo. The album was produced by Robert Schneider with additional production and mixing by Bryce Goggin and was recorded in three separate states...
. Mangum is reported to be playing "drums, cow object, backing vocals, handclaps". Mangum also contributed drums to the Circulatory System
Circulatory System
Circulatory System is a psychedelic rock musical ensemble formed by musician/painter Will Cullen Hart, and featuring Derek Almstead, Suzanne Allison, Peter Erchick, John Fernandes, Charlie Johnston, and Heather McIntosh....
album, Signal Morning
Signal Morning
Signal Morning is the second studio album by the psychedelic rock band Circulatory System. It was released September 8, 2009 on the Cloud Recordings label.-Side A:#"Woodpecker Greeting Worker Ant" - 3:22#"Rocks and Stones" - 2:42...
, released in September 2009.
In October 2008, Mangum performed the song "Engine" on several stops of the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour. Prior to these performances, he had not played Neutral Milk Hotel songs in public since 2001. At the Lexington, KY stop, Mangum, Scott Spillane and Julian Koster led concertgoers outside the venue to a nearby tree. Prior to playing Engine, the group surprised the audience with Neutral Milk Hotel's "The Fool". This was, effectively, the closest thing to a Neutral Milk Hotel performance since 1998.
In December 2009, Mangum contributed the song "Sign the Dotted Line" to a Chris Knox
Chris Knox
Chris Knox is a New Zealand rock and roll musician, cartoonist, and DVD reviewer who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s, he formed the group Tall Dwarfs with guitarist Alec Bathgate, much loved for their honest,...
tribute album titled Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox.
On May 6, 2010, Mangum played a 25-minute acoustic set at a Chris Knox benefit show at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. He played: "Oh Comely,"
"A Baby for Pree/Where You'll Find Me Now," "Two Headed Boy pt. 2," "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and as an encore, "Engine." It was also announced it was not the start of a comeback, but a one time performance to benefit his friend Chris Knox.
On December 4, 2010, Mangum played a 10 song set at a loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn including 6 songs from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Engine.
On August 12 and 13, 2011, Mangum played full sets at Trinity-St.Paul's United Church in Toronto, Ontario. Both shows were opened by members of the Elephant 6 Collective. Mangum played very similar sets at the two shows, performing several songs from Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and "On Avery Island". During the show on August 12, Mangum also played a cover of Daniel Johnston's "True love will find you in the end". Mangum performed "Engine" as an encore at both shows.
On 30 September 2011, Mangum will be playing a full set at All Tomorrow's Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....
in Asbury Park, NJ. This will be followed by a solo set by Mangum on October 3, 2011 at the Paramount Theatre. Jeff will be curating the ATP
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....
event at Butlins Holiday Park, Minehead
Minehead
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, north-west of the county town of Taunton, from the border with the county of Devon and in proximity of the Exmoor National Park...
between the 2nd and 4 December 2011, other bands from the Elephant 6 collective have already been announced to support including Apples In Stereo and The Olivia Tremor Control
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band prominent in the mid to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects...
On February 16, 2011, Mangum announced a solo tour in Summer/Fall of 2011.
On April 20, 2011, Robert Schneider
Robert Schneider
Robert Peter Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum...
debuted a score composed by Mangum for the Teletron, an instrument Schneider had invented. It is unknown whether the composition will have an official release.
On August 26, 2011, Mangum launched the website walkingwallofwords.com, where he is self-releasing a box set of Neutral Milk Hotel albums and unreleased tracks, as well as one-of-a-kind drawings and a radio show he curated.
On October 4, 2011, Mangum made an appearance at Zuccotti Park
Zuccotti Park
Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, is a publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is a controlled by Brookfield Properties. The park was created in 1968 by Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, after the property owners negotiated its creation with city...
in New York City and played several songs to the protesters participating in Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which began September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district...
.
On October 27, 2011, Mangum (who is vegan) performed a benefit show for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York.
With The Olivia Tremor Control
- California DemiseCalifornia DemiseCalifornia Demise is an EP released by The Olivia Tremor Control. Recorded at 210 Sunset Ave on various four tracks by Bill Doss, Jeff Mangum, Will Cullen Hart and a few others. This was the second Elephant Six 7" EP...
(Elephant 6 Records; 7"; 1994) - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
With Major Organ and the Adding Machine
- Major Organ and the Adding MachineMajor Organ and the Adding Machine (album)Major Organ and the Adding Machine is an album released by Major Organ and the Adding Machine in 2001. In 2010, an expanded edition of the album, including a DVD of the Major Organ and the Adding Machine film was released...
(Orange TwinOrange Twin RecordsOrange Twin Records is an Athens, Georgia-based record label run by Laura Carter, a multi-instrumental member of Elephant 6 popsters Elf Power....
; 2001)
With Laura Carter, Eric Harris, Chris Jolly & Heather McIntosh
- Curse Of The Seven Jackals (Perhaps Transparent Records; CDRCDR- Medicine and health care :*Clinical data repository, a medical database system designed to provide a realtime summary of a patient's condition*Clinical Dementia Rating...
; 2001)
As Jeff Mangum
- Orange Twin Field Works: Volume IOrange Twin Field Works: Volume IOrange Twin Field Works: Volume I is a collection of Bulgarian folk music released by Jeff Mangum, previously of Neutral Milk Hotel. The album contains one track, a little over a half hour of different segments from a single festival.-External links:...
(Orange TwinOrange Twin RecordsOrange Twin Records is an Athens, Georgia-based record label run by Laura Carter, a multi-instrumental member of Elephant 6 popsters Elf Power....
; CD; 2001) - Live at Jittery Joe'sLive at Jittery Joe'sLive at Jittery Joe's was an album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to battle the high prices of bootlegs on eBay. Filmmaker Lance Bangs recorded it at the Athens, GA venue Jittery Joe's on March 7, 1997 during a live solo performance featuring only Jeff...
(Orange TwinOrange Twin RecordsOrange Twin Records is an Athens, Georgia-based record label run by Laura Carter, a multi-instrumental member of Elephant 6 popsters Elf Power....
; CD; 2001) - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (MergeMerge RecordsMerge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records...
; CD; 2009)
External links
- 33 1/3 series - Kim Cooper's book "Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea'"
- Kevin Griffis, "Have you seen Jeff Mangum?", Creative LoafingCreative LoafingCL Inc. is the Tampa, Florida-based publisher of three city newsweeklies and their associated websites. Each of the papers focuses on local news, politics, arts and entertainment, and restaurants...
, September 4, 2003 - Jeff Mangum discography at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Video of Halloween 1997 Performance
- Video of Live at Jittery Joes Performance
- Jeff Mangum, Astra Taylor Married, Glorious Noise, January 9, 2008