the music tapes

Julian Koster, idiosyncratic leader of the Music Tapes and formerly a member of Neutral Milk Hotel, is launching a new podcast via Night Vale Presents, backers of…

Teh Internetz are rife with previewable music this week. For your ease of unpaid listening, we've rounded up the 10 records you've gotta hear now,…

Elephant 6-affiliated band the Music Tapes have grand plans for a tour supporting their September 4 album Mary’s Voice called "The Traveling Imaginary," which the…

If there's a way to bang together pieces of recording tape to produce music, Julian Koster will figure it out someday. Until then, he can…

Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today, with more after the jump. Click each album title to read…

What? The occasionally off-kilter underground project the Music Tapes is the brainchild of Julian Koster, most notably of seminal indie rockers Neutral Milk Hotel. Koster's…