"Writer, actor, and musician Jesse Valencia spent ten years uncovering the mysteries of the band and the film, during which time he has traveled from San Francisco to Denver, Portland to Tucson, and beyond, gathering pieces of the band’s history and putting them together, clue by clue, until he found it."
"Summertime always finds me reading music bios of various stripes—it's a varied field with perhaps more misses than hits—but Keep Music Evil, the new book by Jesse Valencia about the legendary Brian Jonestown Massacre, is going in my beach bag for sure. The ever-changing band and its leader, Anton Newcombe, probably best-known from Ondi Timoner's 2004 documentary Dig!, packs more dysfunction into a day, an album, or a gig than any other I've known, but that seems to be the price for the sort of transcendence they're seeking (and, often, achieving)." - Corey Seymour, Senior Editor
"Glide is thrilled to premiere the official video for Gorky’s “Action Pants” – a bang em up rocker with an irritated kick and hellbent ferocity in line with early Arctic Monkeys, The Vines and The Stooges..."
From the article:
“I’ve got hundreds of songs we can always pull from, but we’re not bound by that,” [Valencia] says. “We could do progressive hip-hop space jazz with theremins if we wanted to, or stripped-down acoustic folk. We love and can play all kinds of music, though at this moment we’re really into just rocking out and having fun.”
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Check out the video below, which also features a reading of Jesse's nonfiction short, 'How To Piss Yourself In Style'!
Gorky's "Rime of the Modern Mariner," from the album More Electric Music, is the official theme music for the podcast 2000 DC! From their website, which you can access HERE:
2000 DC is a satirical sitcom podcast. Follow Alex and Dimitri as they move into Washington DC and face issues of the modern world. New episodes release on Saturday #2kDC