Al Cisneros revived Om with Grails drummer Emil Amos and release the megalithic God Is Good this week on Drag City. Chess-playing sunrise-watching Cisneros discusses everything but how his drummer’s name is an anagram for ‘SOMA LIME.’ This interview by Dan Collins.
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Halloween Swim Team sounded fairly cacophonous through the storefront windows, but the Monolators insisted the door be shut for their aggressive psych-rock, lest blameless strollers on Sunset be caught in the fusillade and begin to yell for the cops. A onetime trio once shrunk to the husband-and-wife team of Eli and Mary Chartkoff but now swollen to a quintet, the band handed out cardboard keys to Thursday’s release of their digital EP Ruby I’m Changing My Number. The crowd, now rapt and judging from a whole new set of standards, were delighted all over again with this brief and forceful turn.
