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About Me

Hi, we're the Lag, your friendly neighborhood post-everything band with magical powers surpassing maybe even a unicorn. We met each other mostly through the Bay Area's seedy rave underground, except for the one guy we found on Craigslist who is from another continent and talks "different" and eats vegemite. We'd tell you what we sound like, but there's some examples right above this stupid bio. We'd tell you what other bands we like, but we already put that in our influences section and I don't think we sound like most of them. Some of them might not even like what we do. So it's not that important. What is important is that we keep doing what we do, otherwise we'd stop. Oh, and our live shows slay. We have a fun time, and people come up and tell us "wow, I had a fun time". How is that bad?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/05/2006
Band Members: Chris - Drums Andy - Guitar Richard - Bass
Influences: spacemen 3, my bloody valentine, can, sonic youth, joy division, gang of four, fugazi, stone roses, pil, happy mondays, mogwai, the jam, mazzy star, ride, the velvet underground, t rex, stereolab, jesus and mary chain, husker du, lamb, television, yo la tengo, buzzcocks, au pairs
Sounds Like: a shadow from a plane flying so high you can barely see it racing across cities and plains, that scares a dog, that runs into a table with a glass on it, that spills into a shape that reminds you of something else.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Oh Joy

So we had two new members of the Lag. But they didn't work.So I ran into an old friend camping a few weeks ago, who was shitfaced drunk at 9am, complaining about some random stuff and talking what mu...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:55:00 GMT

Studio! Songwriting! Oh My!

Andy here:Well, so I haven't talked much about the band lately. That's cause we were planning this awesome unveiling of 2 new members. But as much as we love our newbs, I'm not sure the Lag works be...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 13:29:00 GMT

Fuckin-A

AndyW here with *drum roll, I wanna drum roll here!!!*.... .. . . .Today’s Awesome Web Find:A short film entitled "21-87"h...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:47:00 GMT

but what I’m served isn’t at this table...

Hi, it’s Andy with a little jaunt into Polish culture.First off let’s get all caught up here so we’re talking about the same person. His born name was Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewi...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:41:00 GMT

Could It Be?

There is the upcoming possiblity of your beloved The Lag becoming a four piece band. We’ve been seeing some people, and while not yet serious it feels right. Sometimes. Just th...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:52:00 GMT

Approximate Brushes With Near Stardom

Chris again. You can tell its me by all the unecessary commas, parenthetical remarks and ellipses. Oddly enough that's how I talk...Fun Fact: All my bands end up producing at least o...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Chris here...

Hi,Did you know there were two people in the Lag? And that both of us maintain the site? That's right, when you send the lag a message asking Andy to marry you, you're asking me as well.&n...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:19:00 GMT

New Versions of Fractured and Cielo Drive

Whoot, boom chakka.The new Fractured is recorded hotter, a slightly more intense/faster version, and admittedly tighter as we've been caning this tune almost every rehearsal for months now (the origin...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:36:00 GMT

New Material Posted

Two new tunes, frozen in their creative infancy for your listening pleasure/curiosity have been posted. Be gentle, as both of these are early studio roughs, what we refer to as reference recordings (...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:14:00 GMT

What the Lag does when youre not looking....

We've decided to go over the brick wall of material that has been forming around us. Some 13 songs that we could play at any moment, and then a whole bunch of half baked artifacts (some from thi...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:20:00 GMT