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September 08, 2005
Mangum barely escapes interview!
A few days ago, Comes With a Smile had updated their website with news about their 20th issue. For those who don't know, CWAS puts out a magazine composed pretty much entirely of interviews with musicians, which magazine is then packaged with a CD compilation of rare or unreleased tracks from the featured musicians. Right. So anyway, the list of people who were up for #20 was looking pretty impressive (Bonnie Prince Billy, Constantines, New Pornographers, etc.), and then a name popped out that was sort of incredible: Jeff Mangum.
So not only was the press-shy Georgian going to do an interview, but he was also going to possibly allow Comes With A Smile to release a rare or (good god) new track on its compilation CD? Figuring that whatever music Mangum would pick to represent him would be a rare Neutral Milk Hotel track or maybe one of the live takes from the "Jittery Joe's" album, I emailed Matt Dornan at CWAS to get the lowdown, and here's what he kindly wrote back-
since the post about content, jeff mangum has decided against doing any press so won't appear in issue 20. we never got as far as discussing tracks, so there was no guarantee we'd have had one... sorry the news isn't better.
In the meantime, CWAS has updated their news page to say something similar. Would have been amazing to read that interview though, to see what Mangum's been up to, to see what he thinks of the near-universal (and rightly so) adoration that "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" has garnered in the years since its release.
Posted by Kevin at September 8, 2005 01:19 AM
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god. i wish i didn't know about this. it would've been so much better to live in blissful ignorance of this. now i have to start cutting myself again--just to feel something, you know?
Posted by: matt at September 8, 2005 09:24 AM
I know what you mean, Matt. All too well.
Posted by: Kevin at September 8, 2005 10:47 AM
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