Picture the scenario, you are cruising high above America, travelling the friendly skies, ensconsed in the world of packaged peanuts and subtly odd tasting soft drinks. You are enoying the inflight movie with your big yellow free headphones when you hear it. At first you think maybe it’s coming from the headphones, so you unjack […]

Last week, one of the hot indie rock blog topics was the secret Decemberists purevolume account, which contained three “leaked” new songs before they were taken off a few days ago. But possibly the most interesting element of this was that none of these songs were that rare - all three were live versions […]

Once the sole domain of gnarly hippies or schticky rockers like ZZ Top, beards have suddenly become a badge of honor in one of the most unlikely genres – indie rock.

Damn straight he did. And what with 1) him seriously considering playing Intonation 2) the Neutral Milk Hotel reissues 3) the guitars he’s selling on Orange Twin 4) the upcoming 33 & 1/3 book on In The Aeroplane Over The Sea I think we might be looking at a full fledged NMH revival.

More photos here and here.

From billboard.com:

“Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind […]