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The Music Tapes are SPIN online’s Artist of the Day.  You can read the blurb right here.  They also give the new album, Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes, a 3.5 out of 5.0 in their review.  No Ripcord is even more positive, and Tiny Mix Tapes is verbose in its appreciation. (Thanks to orbitingstuff and wilson for the links.)  Personally, it’s in strong competition for my favorite album of the year so far.

UPDATE: Here’s a video You Ain’t No Picasso posted today of The Music Tapes performing “The Television Tells Us” at Popfest last weekend:


The Music Tapes – The Television Tells Us (Live at Popfest)

UPDATE UPDATE: Also there’s an interview with Julian Koster in the most recent issue of Flagpole, and you can read it here. Further intimations of a tour!

Currently working out the specifics of a national – and perhaps international – tour is on Koster’s mind, and he says he’d like to hit the road in October, circling the country on some sort of an Elephant 6 Revue jaunt (although he’d never call it that), perhaps focusing on Music Tapes stuff, perhaps more. He has ideas of a big stage performance involving “me, W. Cullen Hart, Scott Spillane, many more, a whole ton of us, playing all of our music as an orchestra, a special program, all sorts of nice things,” he says.