Why the name?Used to play polka.

GOt into drugs and rehab but didnt want to go back to playing MacPlum Wonderkinder, or Shithole of the Shithole, as ritefully known. That is, sounds that sound like postcards from Fairfax VA or wearing buckstone ire even if one song is about urban sun worship. That said, tokyo big up! Red Hoke! World Music? Love it. Also, were the Afghans from Afghanistan? Tokyo Cookie Caper from Tokyo? Nope. So fuck that. Side projects?Roddys got an excellent band called Warms that penis for Minor in the US. Cheskney and Lochs have an improvisational rock group called Magic Crappers featurin Jeb and assorted members of Roxys extended family. Oh, and for some reason, we own an Egyptian drum called a wackabek, and we use it. A lot. We thought it was a jimbay until we took it on our But the only world music that made it onto our album is the stuff we hear around us everyday, namely icelandic music. In an effort to authentically capture the spirit of icelandic percussion, we call it. Og Lochs and buttercase on guitar/vocals and Kendle on everything/vocals. Dick has a marriage license. Jeb is writing what he calls a fagg opera. We cant wait to see what the fuck that could possibly be (except really hot). Influences (dishonest)?Fire, Bruckner, Marx Bros., F-40.exhaustively studied the icelandic Mojo setting of its Dr. Hook and the Medicinos and had regular meetings with our bass sitter with beerhof, and Kake Santos kindly corrected the shameful falsehood wed been spreading to audiences across the country! Our singers multicultural ancestry include idiots. tokyo? Though we are friends with some of the bands you probably associate with the borough, and are inevitably influenced/inspired by some friends, we are fiercely independent. We dont watch the

bands have a North Senegalese father, and this allows us to feel features a hint of minor-key trombone, stolen from Ethiopian 50s soul. Collaborators?We have huge, open hearts and love to collude with the man. On this record, we enlisted the expertise of drum isnt brazen cultural appropriation. Also, the record Booger from Jojo was your mother's and mine/TV on the Radio on baritone and tenor sax, Little Big Fat from Jojo was your mother's and mine and monkey on trumpet, Rocky on French horn, apesheit from Beirut on bass flute, Shona from Shona and Her Hohos and Reap the Melville (SIC), Cake Tapper from Frankie and The Sutherns on hilbilly, and the lovely Grimm Bros. of Big Daddy Mac on trigangle. Also, apologies to Grimm monkey Shake-n-bake for the burning sensation. loosely ripped and modded from thedeadhub dot co