Music Tapes’ Julian Koster Organizes Elephant 6 March Across America with The Holiday Surprise Tour; America Surprised, Pleased

The Holiday Surprise Tour, a spectacular series of shows organized by The Music Tapes frontman Julian Koster, is set to take place throughout October, featuring various members of the Elephant Six Collective. The shows will act as a salute to select members of the Athens-based, loosely-defined, tight-knit collective. Artists slated to be memorialized include Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, The Music Tapes, Elf Power, The Gerbils, Scott Spillane, Nana Grizol, Nesey Gallons, and tons more. And it’s a pretty safe bet to assume that at least a handful of other Elephant Sixers will show up. Maybe even that one guy.

Koster described the whole extravaganza as “a big orchestra, variety show, silly happy thing,” according to Pitchfork. Want to go? You better want to. Here are the dates:

But wait, don’t go yet! I still need to tell you two more things! First, Koster will be releasing another album, The Singing Saw at Christmastime, October 7 via Merge, this time under his own name, not his Music Tapes moniker. Second, Orange Twin will be releasing a CD/DVD version of the decade-in-the-making short film Major Organ and the Adding Machine in the fall of 2009 (based on the crazy Koster/Mangum-related album from 2001). As an added bonus, the movie is also set to take its initial round of bows at The Holiday Surprise shows.

Wow! Music and movies! You better go to this show; the cool kids are all going to be there anyway, and you’re cool, right? Right.

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