LIVE, Tracking Aubrey Menard LIVE, Tracking Aubrey Menard

LIVE MUSIC: Jeff Mangum @ The Lincoln Theater - 1/27 and 1/28

There’s at least one thing all graduates of liberal arts colleges have in common: a formative night of lying on the floor of a dorm room listening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea discussing the existence of God and the meaning of life while contraband candles or a string of Christmas tree lights glows softly in the background. This experience is most typically followed by subsequent weeks of listening to the album on repeat, searching for more information about who Neutral Milk Hotel is and from where such puzzling and emotionally-purging lyrics could have come.  Then, finally, there is devastation as the internet reveals the history of the band and that you have no hope of ever seeing them live in concert or an upcoming album to look forward to.  (If this does not accurately describe your undergraduate experience, you should ask for your $160,000 back.) 

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