Uke centered band

My son who is 26 sent me this email: "Here's a vid of a guy from a group called "Neutral Uke Hotel," which is really a tribute band that plays nothing but 'Neutral Milk Hotel' songs. N. Milk H. had some success in the indie music scene maybe 6 or so years ago. This is a vid of one of the N. Uke H. members accompanied by a local band, Communist Daughter (who I've played with)."

http://vimeo.com/15517890

Here's the full band site:

http://www.neutralukehotel.com/

My son is in a band called "Speeds the Name".

I forgot to mention there is melodica involved........

Actually Neutral Milk Hotel was a little bit further back. Jeff Mangum (the guy who was NMH) hung it up after the tour for "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" in 1998. He's sort of become the indie rock version of JD Salinger.

I saw him a couple of times in the 90's. The Aeroplane show at the 400 Club had almost a dozen people onstage including a sousaphone & singing saw. Absolutely astounding show.

They were just one of many really quite good bands that were part of the Elephant 6 Collective.

This has been your music geekery post for today.

They sound brilliant i loved that local natives esque

I was about to point this out, but you beat me to it! Also, Mangum did a live show in New Zealand around 7 or so years ago, and of course, it was bootlegged. It was great!