For a young band in need of promotion, a surprise Shaquille O’Neal appearance is generally a good thing. In September 2014, the alternative rock band Neutral Snap played its first gig at Fred’s, a ...

The distinctive collection of music nerd tributes has published 86 volumes since 2003, among them tomes dedicated to Radiohead, The Smiths, Beastie Boys and the Pixies in addition to such rock ...

He has a chimerical concept of authenticity, wears lots of indifferent plaid and often regards popular and electronic idioms with suspicion: For this certain breed of indie music fan, the 1998 album ...

Neutral Milk Hotel’s reputation is heavy on legend and mystery, centered almost entirely around the man who wrote and sang their songs, Jeff Mangum. That’s fine, but it obscures one of the things that ...

The band, whose 1998 album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" has become a cult classic, hasn't played as a group in nearly 15 years. By Emily Maas, Billboard Neutral Milk Hotel, the beloved indie band ...

From the beginning of last night’s first Neutral Milk Hotel show in Denver in some twenty years, when Jeff Mangum stepped on stage with his guitar to play “King of Carrot Flowers Pt. I” it was ...

The saying goes that victory has a thousand fathers. In popular music, it also has at least that many children. Brian Eno probably made the observation most famously. In a 1982 interview with Musician ...