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Elephant 6

Index Elephant 6

The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 117 relations: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Air-Sea Dolphin, Alternative rock, Aneurysm, Anti-consumerism, Arcade Fire, Athens, Georgia, Atlanta (magazine), Bablicon, Beulah (band), Bill Doss, Black Swan Network, Brooklyn, Cassette tape, Cher Doll Records, Chocolate USA, Chris Parfitt, Circulatory System (band), Cloud Recordings, Continuum International Publishing Group, Cul-De-Sacs and Dead Ends, De facto, Denver, Do it yourself, Dressy Bessy, ECW Press, Elephant 6, Elf Power, Everything Is (song), Exclaim!, Extended play, Fanzine, Franz Ferdinand (band), Fun Trick Noisemaker, Great Lakes (band), Grunge, Hilarie Sidney, Holy Grail, Home recording, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Indie rock, Jeff Mangum, Jim McIntyre (musician), Julian Koster, Kevin Barnes, Kingsauce, Laura Carter (musician), Lo-fi music, Magnet (magazine), Major Organ and the Adding Machine, ... Expand index (67 more) »

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

A Hawk and a Hacksaw is an American folk duo from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently signed to L.M. Duplication.

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Air-Sea Dolphin

Air-Sea Dolphin is a musical project by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo, James Husband (James Huggins from of Montreal and Elf Power), Ryan Sterritt and The Brothers Chaps.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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Aneurysm

An aneurysm is an outward bulging, likened to a bubble or balloon, caused by a localized, abnormal, weak spot on a blood vessel wall.

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Anti-consumerism

Anti-consumerism is a sociopolitical ideology.

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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. Elephant 6 and Arcade Fire are musical collectives.

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Athens, Georgia

Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlanta (magazine)

Atlanta is a monthly general-interest magazine based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by Hour Media Group, LLC.

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Bablicon

Bablicon was an Elephant 6-related free-jazz band consisting of members of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils.

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Beulah (band)

Beulah was an American indie rock band from San Francisco, California, often associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

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Bill Doss

Bill Doss (September 12, 1968 – July 30, 2012, The Line Of Best Fit, July 31, 2012) was an American rock musician.

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Black Swan Network

Black Swan Network is a musical side project of The Olivia Tremor Control.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Cassette tape

The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Cher Doll Records

Cher Doll Records is an American independent record label founded in Seattle, Washington, by Nancy Ostrander in 1993.

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Chocolate USA

Chocolate USA was an American indie rock band from Tampa Bay, Florida, formed in 1989 as Miss America.

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Chris Parfitt

Chris Parfitt is an American guitarist who was one of the founding members of the Elephant 6 indie pop band The Apples in Stereo.

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Circulatory System (band)

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.

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Cloud Recordings

Cloud Recordings is an American record label founded in 2001 by John Fernandes and Will Cullen Hart.

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Continuum International Publishing Group

Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.

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Cul-De-Sacs and Dead Ends

Cul-De-Sacs and Dead Ends is a compilation of B-sides and singles by The Minders.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Do it yourself

"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts.

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Dressy Bessy

Dressy Bessy is an indie rock band from Denver, Colorado led by songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist, Tammy Ealom.

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ECW Press

ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Elephant 6

The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. Elephant 6 and Elephant 6 are music scenes and musical collectives.

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Elf Power

Elf Power is an American indie rock band that originated in Athens, Georgia, United States.

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Everything Is (song)

"Everything Is" was the first recording mass-released by Neutral Milk Hotel, at that point still largely an outlet for the songwriting of Jeff Mangum instead of a fully formed band.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002.

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Fun Trick Noisemaker

Fun Trick Noisemaker is the debut studio album by the Apples in Stereo.

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Great Lakes (band)

Great Lakes is an American rock and roll band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1996.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Hilarie Sidney

Hilarie Sidney is an American musician best known as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo.

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Holy Grail

The Holy Grail (Saint Graal, Graal Santel, Greal Sanctaidd, Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.

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Home recording

Home recording is the practice of recording sound in a private home instead of a professional recording studio.

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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the second and final studio album by the American band Neutral Milk Hotel, released on February 10, 1998, by Merge Records.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

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Jeff Mangum

Jeffrey Nye Mangum (born 24 October 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who gained prominence as the founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well for his co-founding of The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

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Jim McIntyre (musician)

Jim McIntyre is a musician best known as the man behind the Elephant 6 band Von Hemmling.

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Julian Koster

Julian Koster (born July 26, 1972) is an American multidisciplinary artist.

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Kevin Barnes

Kevin Lawrence Barnes (born May 30, 1974) is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the indie rock group of Montreal, part of the Elephant 6 Collective.

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Kingsauce

Kingsauce is a "novelty-pop" project headed by Richie Chodes.

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Laura Carter (musician)

Laura Carter is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Athens, Georgia.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice.

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Magnet (magazine)

Magnet is a music magazine that generally focuses on alternative, independent, or out-of-the-mainstream bands.

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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.

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Manifesto

A manifesto is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government.

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Marbles (band)

Marbles is the solo recording project of The Apples in Stereo singer and chief songwriter Robert Schneider.

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Marshmallow Coast

Marshmallow Coast (formerly M Coast) is an indie pop band associated with the Elephant Six Collective.

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Midget and Hairs

Midget and Hairs is an American experimental pop recording project of Paige Dearman, a musician associated with the Elephant Six Collective.

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Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle

Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle is the debut studio album by the American band the Olivia Tremor Control, released on August 6, 1996, by Flydaddy Records.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Music of Athens, Georgia

The music of Athens, Georgia includes a wide variety of popular music and was an important part of the early evolution of alternative rock and new wave. Elephant 6 and music of Athens, Georgia are music scenes.

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Musical collective

Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared. Elephant 6 and Musical collective are musical collectives.

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Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel were an American band formed in 1989 by musician Jeff Mangum in Ruston, Louisiana.

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New Magnetic Wonder

New Magnetic Wonder is the sixth studio album from The Apples in Stereo.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Of Montreal

Of Montreal is an American indie pop band from Athens, Georgia. Elephant 6 and Of Montreal are musical collectives.

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Opening act

An opening act, also known as a warm-up act, support act, supporting act or opener, is an entertainment act (musical, comedic, or otherwise), that performs at a concert before the featured act, or "headliner".

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Orange Twin Records

Orange Twin Records is an Athens, Georgia-based record label run by Laura Carter of the band Elf Power.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Pavement (band)

Pavement is an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California, in 1989.

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Pet Sounds Studio

The Pet Sounds Recording Studio (usually referred to as simply Pet Sounds Studio or Pet Sounds, after the Beach Boys' album of the same name) was a recording studio located in Denver, Colorado (subsequently in Lexington, Kentucky), founded by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo and Jim McIntyre of Von Hemmling.

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Pigeonholing

Pigeonholing is a process that attempts to classify disparate entities into a limited number of categories (usually, mutually exclusive ones).

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Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't

Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't is a project of The Olivia Tremor Control keyboardist Peter Erchick.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Pop Etc

Pop Etc (pronounced "pop et cetera"), formerly known as The Morning Benders, is an indie rock band.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Psychedelic pop

Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music.

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Record label

"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.

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Robert Schneider

Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Ruston, Louisiana

Ruston is a small city and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Scott Spillane

Scott Edward Spillane (born September 26, 1965) is an American musician.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Secret Square

Secret Square was an early, now-defunct side project of The Apples in Stereo drummer and vocalist Hilarie Sidney and Lisa Janssen, who played bass on the Neutral Milk Hotel album On Avery Island.

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Smile (The Beach Boys album)

Smile (sometimes stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was intended to follow their 1966 album Pet Sounds.

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Sound collage

In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as Musique concrète.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Summer of Love

The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.

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Surrealist Manifesto

The Surrealist Manifesto refers to several publications by Yvan Goll and André Breton, leaders of rival surrealist groups.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Tame Impala

Tame Impala is the psychedelic music project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Apples in Stereo

The Apples in Stereo are an American indie rock band associated with Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, of Montreal, and Circulatory System.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Essex Green

The Essex Green is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn that has released four albums to date.

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The Gerbils

The Gerbils were an American indie rock band that formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1998.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The High Water Marks

The High Water Marks is an indie rock band associated with the Elephant 6 collective.

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The Instruments

The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes.

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The Ladybug Transistor

The Ladybug Transistor is a Brooklyn-based indie pop group associated with The Elephant Six Collective.

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The Late B.P. Helium

The Late B.P. Helium is the solo recording project and, at times, stage name of Elephant Six musician Bryan Poole, who also goes by Bryan Helium.

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The Minders

The Minders are an American band closely associated with The Elephant Six Collective.

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The Music Tapes

The Music Tapes is an experimental pop music and performance art project of Elephant 6 member Julian Koster (also of Neutral Milk Hotel).

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The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control is an American psychedelic band from Athens, Georgia.

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The Outline (website)

The Outline was an online publication focused on "power, culture, and the future." It was founded independently by Joshua Topolsky in 2016 and later became a subsidiary of Bustle.

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The Sunshine Fix

The Sunshine Fix was an American indie rock group that released three albums from 1993 to 2004.

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The Zombies

The Zombies are an English rock band formed in St Albans in 1961.

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Thee American Revolution

Thee American Revolution is an indie rock band formed in 2004 by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo and Craig Morris of The Ideal Free Distribution (Morris is an indie record producer/engineer, and Schneider's brother-in-law).

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Tidal Wave (The Apples EP)

Tidal Wave 7" is the debut release by The Apples (later known as The Apples in Stereo).

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Twee pop

Twee pop is a subgenre of indie pop that originates from the 1986 NME compilation C86.

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Ulysses (American band)

Ulysses is an American indie rock band formed by Robert Schneider (lead vocalist of The Apples in Stereo) along with John Ferguson and Ben Fulton in early 2003.

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Underground music

Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture.

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Von Hemmling

Von Hemmling is the solo project of Jim McIntyre and one of many experimental music projects associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

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Westword

Westword is a free digital and print media publication based in Denver, Colorado.

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Will Cullen Hart

William Cullen Hart (born June 14, 1971) is an American pop musician.

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Workman Publishing Company

Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is an American publisher of trade books founded by Peter Workman. The company consists of imprints Workman, Workman Children's, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algonquin Young Readers, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press.

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33â…“

(Thirty-Three and a Third) is a series of books, each about a single music album.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_6

Also known as E 6, E.6, E.VI, E6 Collective, E6c, Elephant 6 Collective, Elephant 6 Recording Co., Elephant 6 Recording Company, Elephant Six, Elephant Six Collective, Elephant Six Recording Company, Fablefactory, Jill Carnes, The Elephant 6 Collective, The Elephant 6 Recording Co, The Elephant 6 Recording Co., The Elephant 6 Recording Company, The Elephant Six, The Elephant Six Collective, The Elephant Six Recording Company, Thimble Circus.

, Manifesto, Marbles (band), Marshmallow Coast, Midget and Hairs, Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, Music genre, Music of Athens, Georgia, Musical collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Magnetic Wonder, NPR, Of Montreal, Opening act, Orange Twin Records, Paste (magazine), Pavement (band), Pet Sounds Studio, Pigeonholing, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't, Pitchfork (website), Pop Etc, PopMatters, Psychedelic pop, Record label, Robert Schneider, Rolling Stone, Rotten Tomatoes, Ruston, Louisiana, San Francisco, Scott Spillane, Seattle, Secret Square, Smile (The Beach Boys album), Sound collage, Spin (magazine), Stereogum, Summer of Love, Surrealist Manifesto, Synth-pop, Tame Impala, The A.V. Club, The Apples in Stereo, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Essex Green, The Gerbils, The Guardian, The High Water Marks, The Instruments, The Ladybug Transistor, The Late B.P. Helium, The Minders, The Music Tapes, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Outline (website), The Sunshine Fix, The Zombies, Thee American Revolution, Tidal Wave (The Apples EP), Twee pop, Ulysses (American band), Underground music, Von Hemmling, Westword, Will Cullen Hart, Workman Publishing Company, 33â…“.