Reinvented indie band to play at bar Dec 3, 2008
Verbanets said the name is a tongue-in-cheek nod to indie names like Elephant Six and Broken Social Scene. "We thought we would do almost a fake indie band name," Verbanets said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
12/4: Dressy Bessy Dec 2, 2008
Claim to fame: Dressy Bessy guitarist John Hill also plays in the Apples in Stereo, with whom they clearly constitute the poppier end of the Elephant Six Collective spectrum. But the sound is more defined by Tammy Ealom's classic girl-group vocals. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Koster and friends send up some smoke signals Sep 17, 2008
Koster, a former member of Neutral Milk Hotel and an Elephant Six staple, recently returned to the area after living in New England for several years. He's been camping out in Athens ever since the recent Athens PopFest. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Salinger of Indie Rock Feb 27, 2008
In the early '90s, Mangum and a few friends formed a now-legendary collective called Elephant Six, which grew to encompass dozens of strangely named bands creating eclectic music mostly for their own enjoyment. Yet Mangum himself seldom stayed in one place for long; he constantly hopped from city to city, acoustic guitar in hand. (Slate)
Today's best bets Dec 18, 2007
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Bands' new releases capture modern anxieties Mar 1, 2007
Part of the Elephant Six collective of artists who have been updating 1960s-style "baroque pop" for the era of the sampler, Barnes embraced dance music and computers simultaneously, but he kept Of Montreal's aura post-punk -- makeshift and tending toward extremes. It's this mix of little quirks and big beats that makes "Hissing Fauna" so much fun. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Magnetic apple wonders Feb 15, 2007
Combine that with the album's wonky name and the fact that The Apples' lead singer and creative force, Robert Schneider, is one of the founding members of the Vermont-based Elephant Six music collective, and New Magnetic Wonder might just seem like the lost record of a group of Jimmy Carter-era hippie astronauts. That impression is not at all inaccurate. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
BERKOWITZ: 'Indie' to the max Feb 15, 2007
Traditionally, the "indie" moniker meant a band was signed to a record company that was not a major label, i.e., Elephant Six or Kill Rock Stars. These labels usually saw some limited success, despite usually producing only one or two bands of merit (Neutral Milk Hotel) and many, many bands of more questionable talent (Xiu Xiu). (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
CD REVIEW: Of Montreal release gets personal, stays peppy on 'Hissing Fauna' Feb 6, 2007
Sprouting from Elephant Six Collective, a commune of bands where members are swapped around like baseball cards, Of Montreal helped define the Collective's second wave of '90s indie outfits with 1997's "Cherry Peel," along with bands like Beulah and Elf Power. Six albums later, Of Montreal has ditched the twee pop-storytelling nature of their earlier works for full fledged psychedelic synth-pop, and all while rapidly expanding their fan base. (U-Wire.com)
Indie Study: Avant funk from Of Montreal Feb 3, 2007
The group (who are not, it must be noted, from Montreal) emerged from the late-90s Athens, Georgia musical co-op The Elephant Six Collective. The collective liberally intermingled, forming such other bands as Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel and The Apples in Stereo. (MSNBC -- Music)
