April 12, 1998 Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA. One of the most popular Neutral Milk Hotel live recordings. MP3s of this show are prevalent online and several clips are on YouTube. This DVD features the entire 90 minute video from that night. The quality is very good, in regards to both sound and picture, though there's a brief pause between tracks.

Also on the DVD is the bonus feature Where You'll Find Me Now, a short documentary highlighting some Louisiana areas of interest to hardcore NMH fans.

DVD

$7 suggested donation

item #: NMH_SF

Bonus feature: Where You'll Find Me Now (short film)

Neutral Milk Hotel in the Electric Lounge is a DVD featuring a great performance by the band at said venue in Austin, Texas on April 4, 1998. The show is roughly 44 minutes long. The quality isn't perfect, but it's ok.

As a bonus, the same DVD also includes Jeff Mangum's acoustic performance at Chris Bilheimer's birthday party in Athens, Georgia on December 5, 1998. The show is good quality (again, not perfect), about 30 minutes long, and features the rare song "Little Birds" in the set. And Scott Spillane plays trumpet on some songs.

DVD

$7 suggested donation

item #: NMH_TX 

The holy grail of Neutral Milk Hotel bootlegs? I had heard about a fabled performance by Jeff Mangum in New Zealand in 2001 where he took a brief respite from reclusion for one night to once again perform NMH songs.. his only show in the past several years. Fans can only hope Jeff decides to return to performing one day, but as it stands, the New Zealand show is regarded as the final Neutral Milk Hotel performance.
Being a somewhat obsessed NMH fan and bootleg collector, it was a dream of mine to find a recording of the show, though I didn't have much faith in that ever happening.
...So words can't express my exhilaration when I was finally able to track it down. And not only did I find a recording of it, but an amazing quality soundboard recording.. probably the best sounding NMH bootleg I've heard!
Now I'm offering it on CD here to help support the site.

Audio CD

$5 suggested donation

item #: NMH_NZ

Jeff Mangum had a weekly radio show in the wee hours for a few months in late 2002 at WFMU, a freeform independent radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web at WFMU.org. Archives of the programs are available in streaming RealAudio here. The shows are filled with recordings that are, at various times, interesting or enjoyable, if not challenging to the average listener. Jeff (or Jefferson, as he's credited on the station's site) played at least a couple original sound collages, though most of what he played was authentic world music, avant garde jazz, field recordings of nature, obscure musical oddities, and other eccentric stuff that you'll definitely need an open mind to appreciate. Each show is basically like a 3 hour sound collage, with Jeff popping in about once an hour to let people know what they're listening to.

I took the time and effort to convert these radio shows to mp3 format and burn them to cdr. The streaming RealAudio was captured to wav, divided into segments (usually where Jeff comes in), and encoded to 160kbps MP3s using EAC (LAME 3.93). I would have encoded higher, but 160k worked best resulting in three shows fitting snuggly on a disc, for a total of 3 discs for the 9 shows (27+ hours of music).. plus a couple little bonus surprises.
The whole process really put my sanity in jeopardy, but I'm pretty happy with how the CDs turned out. I spent a lot of time making sure there weren't any buffering pauses or other problems.

Data CDs (set of 3 mp3 discs)

$15 suggested donation

item #: WFMU_SET