Elephant 6 Recording Co.

07/04/2026

30/03/2026

Giant Day has just announced west coast US dates opening for Black Moth Super Rainbow this summer!

we're going west with Giant Day - tickets on sale friday (tomorrow)

27/03/2026

Giant Day is heading west this summer! See them opening for Black Moth Super Rainbow.

we're going west with Giant Day - tickets on sale friday (tomorrow)

27/03/2026

From Robert Schneider:
Happy 30th birthday to an album I am so proud to have produced and played on ☀️ Recorded on a Fostex A-4 four-track reel-to-reel at Pet Sounds Studio, which at the time was shared between Kyle Richard Jones’ home studio and my living room (Kyle co-engineered), except the gamelan passages at the end that we recorded at the home of Eric Allen, Rick Benjamin (who played trombone on the record), Merisa Bissinger and Dane Terry (Rick and Merisa + Scott were the Aeroplane horn section). The long drone piece at the end I have always considered to be my greatest production moment. I also played organ, fuzz bass, gamelan percussion, wrote the trombone parts, and composed the piece that is organ and trombone ❤️ Some of my sweetest youthful memories with my lifelong friend Jeff and my old-school Denver friends that I miss a lot ❤️ Thank you to Merge Records for releasing our work ❤️

Neutral Milk Hotel's On Avery Island turns 30 today

Read our review: https://pitchfork.visitlink.me/Q62B-I

17/03/2026

**NEW EPISODE ALERT! Listen wherever you get podcasts or go to https://linktr.ee/onlythreelads. Drop your list in the comments!

BIFF! This week, we're focusing on Album 1-2 punches...that is, albums where the first two songs knock you out.

BANG! Our Third Lad is Ben Crum from long-running Elephant 6 band Great Lakes.

POW! More than 25 years and eight records on from Great Lakes' classic debut, Ben Crum returns with a fantastic new Great Lakes album, Don't Swim Too Close (Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records (HHBTM)). The immediately accessible record draws from classic rock tradition, echoing both the Americana spirit of The Band and Neil Young and the proto-indie rock of Television and the Velvet Underground. Crum's dry humor bubbles up throughout, tempering heavy, earnest moments with wit.

WHAMMO! This is very likely to be the only music podcast you listen to today that incorporates both boxing and Scuffy the Tugboat references. KO!!

Thanks for Mike Turner from HHBTM Records for the introduction and coordination.

14/03/2026

new Robert Schneider release on Cloud Recordings

"NEW MUSIC FROM MATHEMATICS: Baroque and ambient automaton. I wrote an experimental computer program with my son to generate random baroque, ambient and drone compositions inspired by Wendy Carlos and David Cope. Switched-On Computer (SOC) is an open-source Python program that uses the rules of baroque counterpoint for two voices plus a few composition rules of my own, and an onboard synthesizer coded in collaboration with Max Schneider, to randomly generate very unusual classical music. SOC is a twentieth-century-style rules-based AI, not a modern generative AI. It outputs compositions ranging from wild video game music to soothing new age explorations in ancient musical scales. This EP records some of my experiments with SOC.

The first piece on this EP, "Switched-On Computer," exemplifies the randomly-generated computer music that is commonly produced by SOC. It tickles my ear with its super-fast contrapuntal runs in the Hindustani Todi thaat (musical scale), like Switched-On Bach played on a circuit-bent Sega Genesis."

Cover art collage by Lio Coulter.

https://cloudrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/switched-on-computer

09/03/2026

Our Athens friends, The Cellar Lantern Hymns, have a new music video out today for their song “Brother Elephant”, a tribute to the late W. Cullen Hart. Thanks for remembering our friend. 🐘

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25/02/2026

The Tammy Shine kicks off a lil' west coast tour tonight in Tucson, AZ before heading to Southern California. Check it out!⭐️

23/02/2026

🚨 Limited edition reissue available for preorder now:
https://www.hhbtm.com/product/black-swan-network-early-music-vol-1

Black Swan Network - ‘The Early Music Vol. 1’ LP just launched at the hhbtm website and bandcamp. Just some of the deluxe preorder goodies. This release features the hhbtm 2000 singles club 7” on side an and side b features previously unreleased material from Will’s massive tape archives from the same sessions. This release has been years in the making. One of the most special records on the label. Perfect for headphones listening and world building.

20/02/2026

⚡️Happy album release day The Tammy Shine! ⭐️