Music:
Member Since: 4/23/2005
Band Members: Andy Palast (vox, keys),
Joseph Wagner (guitar),
Kevin Freeman (cello),
Greg Terhune (bass),
Steven Jahson Finch (drums)
Influences:
(and newer stuff/people Darpa likes....)
BOWIE, ENO, ROXY MUSIC, PULP, FLAMING LIPS, TALKING HEADS, RADIOHEAD, BETA BAND, KATE BUSH, JULIAN COPE, XTC, Air, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Eric Alterman, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Band Of Horses, Devendra Banhart, Beck, Adrian Belew, Jello Biafra, Big Star, Bjork, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Buckleys Tim & Jeff, Captain Beefheart, Caribou/Manitoba, George Carlin, Cat Power, Nick Cave, the Clash, Jarvis Cocker, Cocteau Twins, Code Pink, Leonard Cohen, Cold War Kids, the Coup, David Cross, Richard Dawkins, Dead Prez, Deerhunter, Aubrey DeGrey, Dilated Peoples, the Dodos, Donovan, Nick Drake, Steve Earle, Echo & the Bunnymen, Sibel Edmonds, the Eels, El-P, Roky Erickson, Espers, Exuma, the Features, Michael Franti, Franz Ferdinand, Brigitte Fontaine, Peter Gabriel, Serge Gainsbourg, Lisa Germano, Gnarls Barkley, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Shirley Golub, Gomez, Amy Goodman - Democracy Now, Gorillaz, Granddaddy, Granny D, Alan Grayson, Glenn Greenwald, Robert Greenwald, Grizzly Bear, GBV, Ed Hale, Francoise Hardy, Bev Harris - Black Box Voting, Bill Hicks, Sander Hicks, Gary Higgins, Jim Hightower, Seymour Hirsch, Howlin' Wolf, Iggy Pop (& the Stooges), Delby Imagine, Immortal Technique, Incredible String Band, Iron & Wine, Islands, Victor Jara, Joy Division, Andy Kaufman, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Kinks, Naomi Klein (read "The Shock Doctrine"!), Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Kucinich, Talib Kweli, La Fleur Fatale, Mark Lanegan, Daniel Lanois, Kalle Lasn - Adbusters.org, Timothy Leary, Barbara Lee, Le Tigre, John Lennon, Love, Magazine, Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Aimee Mann, Maps, Massive Attack, Curtis Mayfield, Terrence McKenna, Cynthia McKinney, Camilo Mejia, Menomena, Mercury Rev, MGMT, M.I.A., Mark Crispin Miller, Mingus, Miracle Fortress, Joni Mitchell, Modest Mouse, Mono (JP), Monty Python, the Move, Bill Moyers, Mum, My Morning Jacket, Ralph Nader, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Harry Nilsson, Phil Ochs, Of Montreal, Os Mutantes, Patton Oswalt, Outkast, Thomas Paine, Greg Palast, Panda Bear, Michael Parenti, Paris, Violeta Parra, Pavement, Lee Perry, Pere Ubu, Peter Phillips - Project Censored, John Pilger, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Police, Poq, Portishead, Prince, Procol Harum, Public Citizen, Quitzow, Michael Ratner, Lou Reed, the Residents, RJD2, the Roots, Arundhati Roy, Todd Rundgren, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Bernie Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Mario Savio, Peter Dale Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, Pete Seeger, Cindy Sheehan, the Shins, Sigur Ros, Judee Sill, Silver Apples, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Sparklehorse, Sparks, Phil Spector, Regina Spektor, Skip Spence, Spiritualized, Split Enz, Spoon, Joseph Stiglitz, Suicide, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Talk Talk, Television, Tinariwen, Tindersticks, Peter Tosh, T-Rex, Transcendence, Barbara Trent, Tricky, TV On The Radio, Undergrounds Velvet & Digital, U2, the Verve, Gore Vidal, Voltaire, Scott Walker, the Walkmen, Kurt Weill, Paul Wellstone, the Who, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Wooden Wand, Woven Hand, Robert Wyatt, Yeasayer, Zappa, Tom Ze, Howard Zinn, the Zombies, some obscure cult band you've probably never heard of called the Beatles, and a little of the old Ludwig Van.
Sounds Like: a choir of locusts
Type of Label: Major
