• 60 Watt Kid
• Chief Nowhere

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Innaway has been writing and recoring its new record for the past couple of months in LA with producer Rob Campanella. The album should be completed in November.

60 Watt Kid make music for that fourth dimension, that realm of theoretical sonics and mad science. What if you could watch Little Richard c. 1957, electrifying audiences with performances the likes of which they’d never seen, practically starting riots, and yet you could see fifty years ahead to an old queen in layers of pancake make-up and bowling shoes, on television commercials, the only way he could get on TV these days, a parody of himself. What if these two Little Richards existed at once and strings connected them through the fifty years and when one pushed, the other pulled and strings existed between every rock icon and casualty in between and between the teenager spinning his 45 and the teenager (or senior) downloading his MP3. 60 Watt Kid ride these strings like the magical Ley lines of old Mason magic, P2P connections between moments (and melodies) in time. The San Francisco trio simultaneously pays homage to the culture of stripped-down rock n roll while abusing it irreverently, tweaking it with wacked out of time beats and infinite reverb. They blend psychedelic experimental pop with electronic glitches and old rock n roll chops. Is this transcendence by way of the gospel or jacking into the ether and losing yourself in cyberspace? If the path is improvised, does it matter? Will you ascend to heaven on a staircase, will you be beamed in via teleporter or have you always been there? Is it genre A colored by genre B and laced with elements of genre C? We’re back to three dimensions and that is not where this band dwells. Sci-fi fascinations, pulsing rythyms, intertwining fingerpicking, blurbing analog synths, electronic tweaking, space echoes, charisma, comedy, and alien visitations. . A spiritual evangelistic preacher that casts spells onto his audiences.

Sometime in the middle of the year 2006 in Los Angeles, California, bassist CJ Cevallos, drummer Andy Campanella and guitarist Colin Clark co-founded what is now Chief Nowhere. After one show as Necron 99 (named for a character in the animated movie Wizards) the primarily instrumental power trio changed it’s name to Garden of Earthly Delight after Hieronymus Bosch’s mind-blowing artwork. Shortly thereafter, old friend and keyboardist extraordinaire, Gabe Cohen joined the group and added a lovely bit of Hammond organ to the mix (Gabe had previously played with Andy and CJ in the band Imogene [www.myspace.com/imogene], with which they recorded an album and toured the UK). In the subsequent months, the band played locally and recorded a few demos and decided to simplify the name to Hawks & Hounds (inspired by a Dead Meadow song). And then they changed their name again to Chief Nowhere because there is this movie with that name and they didn’t wish to seem like poseurs. Taking influence mainly from the heavy psychedelic bands of the late 60’s and early 70’s, the group weaves a tapestry of heavy riffs, groovy interludes, and space freak-outs in order to bring about a pleasurable experience to the listener while allowing the musicians themselves to have a maximum amount of fun. Hoping to release an album sometime in the summer of 2008, the four friends have entered Figment Sounds studio with producer Rob Campanella (the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mia Doi Todd, Dead Meadow, the Tyde, the Quarter After, etc.) in order to create something that will take you places and hopefully stimulate your ears. In their off time, the Chief Nowhere boys enjoy goofing around, shooting the shit, listening to good music, tea parties, and fucking around.