Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Julian Koster, the bassist for …
Last week, new reservations came open at the Neutral Milk Hotel. Slate itself wasn’t immune: In 2008 we described Mangum as “the Salinger of indie rock.” Aeroplane rocketed up many retrospective best-of-the-’90s lists, becoming particularly a mascot for Pitchfork’s pre–Condé Nast heyday: The site compared it with The Waste Land and claimed that Mangum’s art “short-circuits all conventional modes of …
