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Kandy Whales

About Me

Some guys met in college, moved to Philadelphia a while later and played together for a while, they released some songs on record, toured the states, some other guys got involved meanwhile, horns and new guitarists and a bassist and stuff. At one point four of them swam in a river that was perfectly opaque green, like jade.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/03/2005
Band Website: www.kandywhales.com
Band Members: We don't post those kinds of pictures, sorry. Not that I'm, like, 'against' it, but...I don't know. I guess I've never really asked, maybe people would be into it.
Influences: Prick, the Police, Fela Kuti, Dieselboy, DJ DStar, Aretha Franklin, Sly & the Family Stone, New Kingdom, Bob Marley, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, the Psyclone Rangers, Frankie Valli, voodoo drums, Machines of Loving Grace, Grace Jones
Sounds Like: A young Nick Cave and Gordon Gano and a strapping young turntablist get high and turn one of their living rooms into an AmGoth parody of a televangelist revival meeting. See also Michael Jackson, Manu Chau.
Record Label: Open to possibilities

My Blog

Pastiche

Well holy shit, here again...feel like I've lived a couple lifetimes since we finished recording last summer. My lazy a$$ finally got the new full-length mastered. Matt Maloney of Big Muddy fame drew ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:25:00 GMT

Shooting into the blinding light

From Wade Davis' book The Serpent & the Rainbow: "On July 16, 1843, and then again on the same day in 1881, the Virgin Mary appeared on the top of a palm tree near the village of Ville Bonheur in t...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:00:00 GMT

Drume Negrita

Just wanted to get a certain quote to you before I return this book to the library. It's a quote within a quote, actually, from the introduction to Sacred Possessions by Margarite Fernando Olmos and ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:32:00 GMT