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About Me

Catapulted out of the dead brainwave spaces of the late 1990s, Nightmare of the Elf has put the San Fernando Valley back on the map for the first time since Captain Beefheart! Combining the best of new wave, dark wave, and dork wave, Nightmare has been baffling and intriguing the denizens of the underground rock scene for years now, but promises in its new incarnation even more startling surreal energy! Like a scrambled egg briscuit tossed on the goth grills of 21st century madness by chefs such as Boyscouts of Annihilation, Cockeyed Ghost, Psychotic Cabaret, e-X-periment, and Cult of (un)leash, this sentence makes no sense! Have no fear! The band will not either, but you will find yourself chanting along to the madness of our grooveboxes! That sentence made no sense either! Always a strong mixture of performance art and post-Boingo ecologue (I just made that word up), we want you to come to our shows in strange costumes, tearing up stuffed animals, staging pillow fights, and dancing your wyrd ass off!
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Member Since: 7/2/2004
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/nightmareoftheelf
Band Members: Nightmare of the Elf is now a Solo Project. We would welcome any musicians who would like to participate.John Landau writhes, croons, growls, contorts, sings and attempts noises out of the guitar, but now also controls keyboards, etc.Naren Renz controls all electronic circuitry in the universe and transforms it into synthesized alpo for the intelligent dog-masses, as well as being an awesome keyboardist, but he is now doing it with his own projects : please go to his page and check them out!Nightmare of the Elf would like to thank Naren for all his work over the years.Senior Sexteen, commonly known as Agent Alesis SR16, is a Virtual Percussionist from Planet Alf, spying on us for the communist government there.
Influences: Oingo Boingo,Devo,You and your passion, wildness, politics, romance, pop culture, absurdity, escaping the insanity of civilization into madness, wanting to have elephant machine gun jello packs worth of fun!
Sounds Like: We have been described as Wall of Voodoo meets Oingo Boingo meets Devo meets Sonic Youth.
It's crazy, driven, megalomaniacal dance music for outcasts, paranoids, geniuses, slackers, and reformed bimbos.
We like soup.
Record Label: Pending

My Blog

Songs for our 2009 Tour Posted!!

We have just posted some of the songs from our 3rd album that we will be performing on our January 2009 European Tour. All new songs!!!We will be hitting Portugal, Andaluz, Poland, Budapest, and Uppsa...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:56:00 GMT

Fat Ass Back By Popular Demand!

The song you've been waiting for!This has become a very important song to me, believe it or not. It is almost elegiac. Its melancholy yet hopeful tone will always have an element of the Los Angeles Co...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:35:00 GMT

Duel of the Dorks!

I am proud to announce that I have personally spoken to George Lucas last night (ok, it was in a dream) and he told me that he had no problem with our "arrangement" of Duel of the Fates.Later on that ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:23:00 GMT

Yet Another Donkey Remix!!!

http://www.myspace.com/dtkogl1tchg0re Check it out!!!
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:10:00 GMT

Fat Ass REMIX!!!

Go to http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro file&friendid=174866410to hear the Fat Ass Remix!!!
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:31:00 GMT

Fat Ass Gonna Buy You A Donkey

(vocals : J.L. ; background laughter by eveghost of Scarlet's Remains)(lyrics:)Fat Ass,Gonna Buy You A DonkeyGonna Buy You A DonkeyGonna Buy You A DonkeyFat Ass, Gonna Buy You A Donkey Gonna Buy You A...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:33:00 GMT

Nightmare of the Elf is now a Solo Project again!!!

Nightmare of the Elf would like to thank Naren Renz for all of his fine work over the years ; he has now moved on to other projects, and we wish him the best there. Nightmare is for the immediate futu...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:20:00 GMT

Nightmare of the Elf goes Power Noise?

Listen to the teaser tracks for Circus and Impure and tell us what you think!
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:34:00 GMT

Anyone want NotE ring tones?

Just got an invite to join what appears to be an artist-centric ringtones company. If we did this, would anyone want ringtones?
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:21:00 GMT

NOTE PINS AVAILABLE!

We have our first merchandise available! The folks at la decay were nice enough to ask us if they could make pins for us. They've got a really great, growing catalog of punk, goth, deathro...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:46:00 GMT