It’s like Elf Power with Jimi Hendrix riffs, something akin to the Twink/Peregrin Took school of post-hippie, anti-prog science-fantasy Dylan blues, with lines like “When a spaceship coughs up cowboys and samurai/your coat is stolen by the cat with colored wings.” So it’s good—certainly promising.

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Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were arguably one of the most feralized bands on the No New York compilation and Lydia Lunch would only penetrate deeper and deeper from there. A one-shot reunion show in New York last year has become a mini-tour that will visit L.A., but after that, says Lunch, it’s done and buried. Brutalization follows. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Exene Cervenka helped invent what Los Angeles is now and helped save the best of what it used to be. She releases a new solo album Somewhere Gone on Bloodshot in October and is moving back to California after years in a historic farmhouse in Missouri. She speaks now while camping on the beach. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Chairlift are from a haunted hotel in Colorado but moved to Brooklyn to pursue music more intensely and to be intensely pursued by people who recognize them from an iPod commercial. They speak from Paris in between kissing graves and delivering DJ sets. Their album Does You Inspire You has been re-released on Columbia. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Paul Williams was the founding editor of Crawdaddy! zine and later close friend to Philip K. Dick, as well as eventual executor of his estate—two positions that dearly inform what L.A. RECORD hopes to do. (In fact, Chris interviewed Paul twice for Philip K. Dick-related articles.) We learn via fellow Roky Erickson listener Jonathan Lethem [...]

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