100 Monkeys Interview with 29-95 Music

Small Talk : 100 Monkeys

Small Talk

100 Monkeys

From: Los Angeles

New Album: Liquid Zoo

In Houston: 8 p.m. Wednesday at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel. Tickets are $15-$20;              713-225-5483 or  www.warehouselive.com.

Named after a theory about monkey behavior — no, not the one that involves the complete works of Shakespeare — Los Angeles band 100 Monkeys creates a sometimes serene, sometimes turgid sort of indie rock. Some tunes such as Future Radio ride a pleasant digital groove with some funk thrown in to dirty things up, while others such as Kolpix are straight up sleazy garage soul. The five-piece group of multi-instrumentalists ended up with a built-in audience of enthusiasts since member Jackson Rathbone appears in the Twilight film series.

Describe your new record in fewer than 10 words

Jackson Rathbone: A collection of wild animals flowing freely in auditory display.

Uncle Larry: Awesome

Jerad Anderson: Founded from fluid festive fantastic fantasies formidably filled with fun.

Ben Johnson: Our strongest album yet, by leaps and bounds.

Ben Graupner: Mario Brothers meets The Nightmare Before Christmas, blues booze and sheer bliss.

If I wasn’t making music I’d . . .

Rathbone: ... be waiting.

Uncle Larry: I wouldn’t be alive.

Anderson: Explode. And implode.

Johnson: . . . be teaching it, I hope.

Graupner: Pretend to murder people with a machete.

Best album in the world right this minute

Rathbone: Gogol Bordello, Live from Axis Mundi

Uncle Larry: The one that hasn’t been made

Anderson: Dark Side of the Moon (Sleep to it most nights)

Johnson: Shame Shame by Dr. Dog

Graupner: The Devil and the Mockingbird or Hooks

Song you like to play when nobody’s around

Uncle Larry: My Love Has Butterfly Wings by John Klemmer

Anderson: Jingle Bells

Rathbone: Hank Williams III, Dick in Dixie

Johnson: Tourist by Spencer Bell

Graupner: Hokey Pokey

Favorite bird of prey

Rathbone: The barnyard owl Who? The barnyard owl. Who? The barnyard ...

Uncle Larry: The hawk

Anderson: Blam, the hawk

Johnson: Great Horned Owl

Graupner: Klingon (I had to look up the spelling for that.)

Cake or pie

Rathbone: Pie charts are pretty sweet ...

Uncle Larry: BOTH!

Anderson: Can I have my cake and eat the pie, too?

Johnson: Pie!

Graupner: I’ll have a drink instead.

My favorite state is . . .

Rathbone: Blissful ignorance

Uncle Larry: United State of Mind

Anderson: Liquid

Johnson: Right now, Louisiana, ’cause that’s where I am.

Source => 29-95 / Via => Jackson Rathbone Online---Gossip_Dance