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	The Elephant Six Collective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Elephant Six Collective were a group of American musicians who spawned some of the most notable independent bands of the 1990s, including the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Apples in Stereo and of Montreal.
		From there on in, most of the bands were signed to major record labels and the recording company as an entity slowly deteoriated until the collective called it quits, due to difficulties in recording and lack of organization, in 2002.
		The bands of the collective have since all moved on to various labels and projects of their own, though many are still friends and even tour together under various guises.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elephant_6 (411 words)

	y'all @ decibel: bands, reviews & music news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Formed in Athens originally, the band migrated towards the Elephant Six collective and have somewhat become immersed in their auras.
		They had Elephant Six for a long time, it was their little thing, but then they all started signing with other labels but they kept this label.
		The Athens band Elf Power might be on Elephant Six.
	www.ofmontreal.net /decibel.html (594 words)

	The Elephant Six Recording Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This website was created as a place for people to share information and celebrate the works of this musical collective.
		This website is trying to document and archive the evolution of this creature known as Elephant 6.
		Please note that all materials found on this website are copyrighted property of the artists and credits are given when possible.
	www.elephant6.com (155 words)

	Blue Plate Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And everybody has preconceived notions, I think, that anybody that’s Elephant Six has to be all Beach Boys and Beatles and Zombies and so forth.
		Dave: Being part of the Elephant Six collective, you guys have kind of focused on the negative aspects.
		And one of the more fortunate things to ever happen in music is having the Elephant Six come back and do something interesting in a time when there’s not that many new interesting things going on.
	www.joesgrille.com /joebps/custom/interviews/Beulah.html (3184 words)

	Transistor Six - Johnny Where's My Purse? - almost cool music review
		Not only does she record her own music as Transistor Six, but she does wonderful little drawings as well, which comprise the art for the release, as well as graphics on her website.
		Lyrically, the track is as bizarre as something you'd get from the Elephant Six collective, focusing on a boy with a head so big he picks up radio signals.
		Despite a couple tracks that don't work quite as well, the album is full of clever construction and music, and although it was recorded on a computer, it hums along with a nice lo-fi feel that works well given the style of music.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/1305 (471 words)

	The Essex Green: The Long Goodbye - PopMatters Music Review
		The Elephant Six Collective are like those super smart, witty, talented but eccentric friends we all have.
		Since the Essex Green, like most of their Elephant Six counterparts, deny the existence of the last 30 years of music, you could be sure they were not headed towards the '80s disco and new wave revival currently streaming out of Brooklyn.
		Essex Green should embrace the pavement beneath their feet, the taxis on the corner, the sounds that are making the kids shuffle this way and that, instead of falling back on the smells of the cow pastures back home.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/e/essexgreen-long.shtml (1092 words)

	Jordan Koidahl : December 2001 Blog archive
		One of the better Beatles influenced scenes around is the Elephant Six Collective.
		The Elephant Six are a bunch of groups based around Athens, Georgia.
		One of my favorite albums to come out this year was dropped by an Elephant Six group; the Circulatory System's self titled debut.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~koidahl/v1/dec01archive.html (1409 words)

	Splendid E-zine: Features: Of Montreal
		Which is strange, for they're possibly the Collective's most prolific act -- and when you're talking about the E6, that's quite an accomplishment indeed.
		We're putting on two little one act plays during the set, and last night three of the six members of the band had never even heard one of them, and had to actually come on stage and act it out, and one of (the plays) kind of turned into...well, it didn't work out.
		If you make a record that sounds like a psychedelic sixties pop record, if you're not part of the Elephant Six you'll be accused of trying to rip it off, and if you are they'll say you're not as good as Jeff Mangum.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/ofmontreal (2678 words)

	Olivia Tremor Control: Dusk at Cubist Castle: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Indeed, the best pop songs are often the most difficult to discuss rationally, those indispensable not for their formal inventiveness but for their ability to tap directly into the intangible realm of human memory and emotion.
		In the mid-to-late 90s, Athens, Georgia's Elephant Six collective established themselves as a group of artists with a shared interest in expressing the inexpressible through pop music.
		The Elephant Six Collective is known largely for their reverence towards classic pop music, and Dusk at Cubist Castle inevitably draws comparisons to The Beatles and Beach Boys.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/o/olivia-tremor-control/dusk-at-cubist-castle.shtml (724 words)

	REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the principal brigades from the potentially legendary Elephant Six collective, the Apples second LP is an intentional step away from all the electronic psychedelia of their debut.
		By shedding their analog synth-coats for bare-chested organs and straight up guitar work, the Apples hoped to recover their pop aspirations from orbit, and bring them to ground in kinder, gentler pastures.
		That said and that accomplished, the great promise of this collection collapses somewhat beneath it's own raison d'etre after a time.
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1998/02.16/revapple.html (299 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Beatles/Beach Boys Pop
		Take, for example, the efforts of the Elephant Six collective, a Florida-based group of musicians who have banded together in order to facilitate their art.
		The collective's main acts are the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel and the Apples in Stereo.
		If, however, you happen to be the kind of person who has a large and varied record collection, a penchant for '60s mod bands and a fondness for clever wordplay, You Am I will probably induce a steep upward mood swing.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.26.98/popmusic-9812.html (1260 words)

	The Apples in the Big Apple - The Daily Free Press - Muse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Apples, fronted by producer, guitarist and sound engineer Robert Schneider, have a long history of analog recordings and are founding members of the Elephant Six collective, a group of bands attempting to recreate the psychedelic and experimental pop sensibilities of the '60s.
		The highlight of the evening was the performance by San Francisco-based Beulah a fellow Elephant Six band.
		With their hyper pop songs and lively stage presence, Beulah was a gust of fresh air in the stuffy Bowery Ballroom.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/news/1999/09/02/Muse/The-Apples.In.The.Big.Apple-1396.shtml (706 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta \| COVER \| DANCE THIS DUSTY MESS AROUND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Old-time scenesters, downtown Athens developers and curators at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon all want to be the bones-keeper of the relics from the time when Athens was celebrated around the world as "The Land of a Thousand Dances." As with most such conflicts, everyone has a point.
		"There's a lot of stuff to be collected and catalogued," says Art Jackson, head of the Athens Downtown Development Authority, which has spearheaded one of the museum efforts.
		Maureen McGinley, who managed the B-52's when they first began and now works as a jury-selection consultant, says that after a lull in the early 1990s, the original impulse that made Athens the hotbed of American music in the '70s and '80s seems to have returned.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2002-02-13/cover.html (2553 words)

	In Music We Trust - INTERVIEW: Minders: Pop Music's Savior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Minders earned a tremendous fan base recording and releasing several 7" records on the now defunct 60's-revisited pop label The Elephant Six Collective, which received widespread critical applaud and a legion of loyal followers.
		However, the band is trying to move away from the Elephant Six tag and gain a following for themselves on their own name.
		The band started to receive national attention away from the Elephant Six relation with the release of their E.P. Down In Fall, an album that expanded beyond anything they'd ever done before.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/40h02.html (774 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Olivia Tremor Control
		A fair amount of indie-lore surrounds the Elephant Six collective, from their mythic origins in the swamps of Ruston, Louisiana to their psychedelic four-track alchemy.
		Enough so that now the collective is beginning to do some navel gazing.
		Collections of rare singles have already been released by the Minders, as well as Of Montreal.
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2000/wetInk/musicNO/oliviaTremorControl.html (247 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Label: Kindercore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As the newest members of the ever-expanding ELEPHANT SIX collective, the Great Lakes add a new, lushly orchestrated and modern element to the E6 sound.
		A compositional hi-pop excursion from ANDY GONZALES (a member of the touring MUSIC TAPES band, and Elephant 6 team player) inspired by his musical heroes: Eric Satie, Ravel, Os Mutantes, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Brian Wilson (natch), and Minos Hadzidakis, as well as those friends, family and "Fishing With John" episodes which inspire us all.
		A thirteen-song musical odyssey chronicling the plight of sea dwellers Mal and Ed and their efforts to overcome the tyranny of the evil Freemdoom and his hentchman Gorgar.
	www.midheaven.com /labels/nonexc/kindercore.html (722 words)

	Excellent Online: Of Montreal Interview
		And it’s a salvation that comes from, of all places, Athens, Georgia – the famed home of REM, and now the famed homebase for the critically lauded Elephant Six Collective, a loose grouping of friends and bands who live and breathe by pop hooks and funny noises.
		Though there are only a few bands who actually carry the Elephant Six imprint on their sleeves, some of the more interesting sounds to emerge of late are from the bands on the fringe of the E6 mini-culture.
		They aren't really that great, but we thought the song was pretty cool and we initially recorded it for the Gants tribute 7" that came out in Japan on the 100 Guitar Mania label.
	www.excellentonline.com /article.php3?story_id=509 (1815 words)

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		The leadoff track from this collection is the Presidents of the United States of America's cover of the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star".
		Most of these tracks are already in the collections of many modern rock fans; it seems inconceivable that a big fan wouldn't already have the Smiths' longest-lasting hit ("How Soon Is Now?") or the track which catapulted New Order to international dance club fame ("Blue Monday").
		This collection will include all of their hits since their last studio compilation, in 1986.
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1998/02.16/c980216.txt (5111 words)

	LOST AT SEA online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It's run many a dream into the ground, and we need look no further than the implosion of the Elephant Six collective for evidence.
		It's soothing and, for a synthesized alt-country post-rock record with all sorts of ingredients flittering about, it is a logistical nightmare that is remarkably well managed and deftly executed.
		"Cinquefoils" is the dominant track on the collection, but the agonizing ballad of "Captain" is also remarkably heartfelt and engaging, the chilling, wispy "I Know Moonlight" is powerful in its simplicity, and the spicy Latin-flavored "Confession" rich with texture.
	ursis.com /LAS/archives/reviews/records/mayday.htm (819 words)

	FREEwilliamsburg: The Animal Collective
		Animal Collective are a difficult band to categorize.
		Like the Elephant Six collective, they record in various incarnations and sometimes even release solo records under the Animal Collective umbrella.
		She put out this record that's been one of my favorites for like six years now ever since it got reissued.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /archives/2005/02/the_animal_coll.html (1886 words)

	The Happy Bullets: The Vice and Virtue Ministry - PopMatters Music Review
		The Elephant Six Collective was one remaining bastion for this lost genre of music.
		The other big act from the collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, released an album that's still popular with the indie kids of 2005.
		Texans the Happy Bullets churn out excellent pop music worthy of Elephant Six (hell, it's better than anything that group has released recently) or the British Invasion.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/h/happybullets-viceandvirtue.shtml (762 words)

	California ep
		These groups have recently resurfaced as significant influences on the indie-pop sound found on labels like Kindercore and Peekaboo, and in the Elephant Six collective with bands like of Montreal and Elf Power.
		The strangely carnivalesque rhythm of "In the Morning" steps outside of the group's normal formula proving that they still have some uniquely appealing tricks up their collective sleeve.
		The future and past of no-frills pop diligence, Dressy Bessy have again proved that they will undoubtedly be able to put a smile on your face if they haven't already got you up and dancing.
	www.dressybessy.com /california_ep.htm (688 words)

	Splendid E-zine: Features: Elf Power
		Given certain Splendid writers' obsession with the Elephant 6 collective, it can hardly be a surprise that when Elf Power played Chicago's Schuba's at the tail end of their tour with the Minders and Fable Factory, Splendid's Chicago staff was there with interviewing muscles flexing.
		Laura Carter, Andrew Rieger and Aaron Wegelin were kind enough to cram inside their newly-acquired van with us and discuss REM fans, sitars, the connection between candy and ornithology, cover albums and Orange Twin.
		JJ: You're members of the Elephant Six collective.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/elfpower (3123 words)

	CityBeat: Short Takes (2002-04-18)
		If you were a sucker for the recent Lord of the Rings revival, the softly psychedelic, Phantasy Pop sounds of Elf Power may be the mythical annex your CD collection has been lacking.
		Elf Power formed in 1994, aligning themselves with the Elephant Six collective (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control).
		For all the squirmy lyrics of throats of birds and clones that grow from bones, Creatures is eerily melodic and strangely upbeat.
	www.citybeat.com /2002-04-18/musicshorttakes.shtml (860 words)

	In Music We Trust - Minders, The: Cul-de-Sacs & Dead Ends
		If you're familiar with the Elephant Six Collective, then you're familiar with The Minders.
		If you're not, well, it's time to ask yourself, "Where have I been?" The Minders, along with The Apples in Stereo and the complete Elephant Six Collective, are bringing back the classic British sounds of the 60's.
		Well, New York-based indie spinART, who put out The Minders debut full-length (HOORAY FOR TUESDAY), have collected all the Elephant Six singles, as well as a few other various singles and compilation tracks to assemble this seventeen-track collection of Minders rarities and out-of-print material.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/27r23.html (513 words)

	PCP : Apples in stereo
		Even as he first huddled under the umbrella of the Elephant Six collective with co-conspirators Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss (both of Olivia Tremor Control), Schneider was the odd man out.
		Schneider Hilarie Sidney) toward a vision of indie pop perfection with carefully constructed shrines to Brian Wilson's “Heroes and Villains” and the raw majesty of conceptual-era Kinks and Beatles, with touches of the Velvet Underground.
		Over the course of six years and an exquisite catalog of albums, singles and EPs, the Apples have remained resolute in their pursuit of the twittering pop machine, adding sheets of gilt-edged intricacy to a beautiful foundation of classically influenced indie pop.
	www.popculturepress.com /apples.html (1340 words)

	indieworkshop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Holiday Rain offers exactly what I would expect from a band promoted as being reminiscent of the Elephant Six collective.
		However, there is one, important difference between these New Englanders and the Athens, Georgia lo-fi rockers: they haven’t a shred of what makes the Elephant Sixers interesting.
		Absent is the quirky instrumentation, truant is the sound experimentation, gone is the excitement.
	www.indieworkshop.com /music/413 (353 words)

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