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Oh the 90s. In the past few years, the world has celebrated some of the decade’s classic trends with such a nostalgic fervor that it’s almost hard to believe that it was over 20 years ago. While pop music shook off the glossy synthetic excess of the 80s by way of Nirvana’s angst and Oasis’s cocaine fueled arena rock, a lo-fi indie scene was growing in the Denver Colorado, where childhood friends Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum formed the Elephant 6 Recording Collective.Armed with 4 track tape machines and a love of 60s psychedelic pop, […]...

Bill Doss, one of the co-founders of the Elephant 6 Recording Company and a member of Olivia Tremor Control, has died. He was 44. No cause of death has been released. Doss—along with fellow Louisianans and childhood friends Jeff Mangum, Will Hart, and Robert Schneider—created the Elephant 6 brand of rock in Athens, Georgia in the early '90s. Both together and separately, the men crafted psychedelic pop under the guise of a loose collective of bands that included Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples In Stereo, Of Montreal, Elf Power, and more. Hart and Doss’ band, Olivia Tremor Control ...

Robert Schneider, frontman for The Apples In Stereo, seems to have some time on his nerdy hands. The Elephant 6 collective co-founder, math geek, and master of the conceptual album tie-in has released a new board game, Al-Jabar Deluxe Edition: A Mathematical Game Of Strategy. Al-Jabar mixes color theory with abstract algebra in a strategic game set to destabilize the brain’s involuntary method of comprehending color. The whole thing sounds exceedingly mathedelic in the description, which adds that once players are familiar with the rules, their “intuitive notions of color lead to interesting and often counter-intuitive color combinations.” Schneider ...

Astronomers at an institute in New Mexico recently received the transmission embedded below from a future version of Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider announcing the rest of the band's tour schedule for 2010.

"I have just seen the footage from the radio observatory in Mexico," says Robert on ApplesinStero.com, "but I had nothing to do with sending the transmission. The Apples haven't even completed our time machine yet. To avoid creating some sort of time travel paradox or space-time disaster, the band plans to stay in the studio for the rest of the year, so we don't run into our future selves on their tour backward in time."

Very Geek-tastic way to announce shows, Robert! We applaud you!

The Apples In Stereo 2010 Tour Dates:

Fri 10/22 Denver, Co The Bluebird Theater

Sat 10/23 Colorado Springs, Co Armstrong Hall

Sun 10/24 Salt Lake Cty, Ut The State Room

Mon 10/25 Boise, ID Neurolux

Tue 10/26 Seattle,...

The Elo-ification of The Apples In Stereo continues apace with Travellers In Space And Time, an explosively poppy album that’s less over-the-top than 2007’s New Magnetic Wonder, though still shooting for the shiny. After opening with a crackly recording of a scientist explaining the concept of “The Code” of foolproof rhythmic expression, Travellers continues through 50 minutes of songs about the wonderful world of the future, where we’ll all dance in interstellar nightclubs with ambassadors from other worlds, while still worrying about whether our boyfriends/girlfriends/robotic-love-units are staying faithful. Apples frontman/producer Robert Schneider fills nearly ...

And now for the fashion! I have to admit, that was probably the first time I've ever seen Sanda Bullock and actually thought to myself: "Damn." But, you know, in a good way. Here are the Oscar's best dressed (Celebitchy) and worst dressed. (Celebitchy)

And in other Sandra Bullock news, here are snippets from both her acceptance speeches for winning best actress for The Blind Side and worst actress for All About Steve. (Litelysalted)

Heeb magazine has complied the 100 greatest Jew movie moments. Spoiler alert! One is from from Yentil and the other 99 are from Woody Allen movies. (Heeb)

Japanese actress Chiaki Kuriyama from Kill Bill Vol. 1 is pursuing a music career over in Japan, and you can check it out here. (Agent Bedhead)

Here's a round-up of the most anticipated upcoming albums in 2010, including The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, The Strokes and Broken Social Scene. (Audiosuede)

John Williams continues...

Indie rockers The Apples in stereo are celebrating the start of a new decade with the release of their seventh studio album, Travellers in Space and Time, their most hi-fi and hook-laden production to date. Described by frontman Robert Schneider as "retro-futuristic super-pop," the album is the official follow-up to 2007's New Magnetic Wonder, and the band's second release for Elijah Wood's Simian Records. The album will be released on April 20 via Yep Roc/Simian/Elephant 6. Travellers contains sixteen piano-driven tracks, replete with vocoder harmonies and sci-fi sound effects, like 70's Am radio filtered through a UFO; including the robotic first single "Dance Floor", the four-on-the-floor dream-scape "Hey Elevator", the Hall and Oates-tinged "Told You...