Jeff Mangum Sings With the Instruments

The band as well as the music-playing things.

Jeff Mangum had a busy night out on the town in New York City on Friday. First, he and a few buddies, including Robert Schneider of the Apples in Stereo and Andrew Rieger and Laura Carter of Elf Power, took in the Os Mutantes show at Webster Hall. Then the crew made their way to the tiny Lower East Side club Cake Shop for performances by the New Sound of Numbers and the Instruments, both featuring Heather McIntosh of Circulatory System and Japancakes.

During the Instruments' set, Mangum joined the band for one song. According to my friend Mike Noble, who supplied the information about both the Os Mutantes and Cake Shop shows, "Mangum sat in with the Instruments on a song (er, stood in, sang in his loud I-don't-need-no-microphone way, wordlessly chanting." (He also joined the Instruments during their in-store performance at Sound Fix in Williamsburg the next day)

Mike was also nice enough to share some photos of the event with us.

Pictured below: Jeff Mangum, Josh Skinner, Heather McIntosh