The Growlers: I’m Kind of Obsessed.

Wow, this hasn’t happened to me in a while.  By “this” I mean being unable to take a record off my record player.  The record is The Growlers’ “Are You in or Out.”  I try to listen to other things, I really do but for some reason I find myself going back to old faithful.

I saw this band for the first time at The bootleg Theatre, a wooden warehouse somewhere near Medusa Lounge, somewhere in Los Angeles.  As the band began to play I saw the entire audience twisting their bodies before them.  Lead singer, Brooks Nielson has a draw much like Jim Morrisson and Ian Curtis.  I thought the audience was going to rip their clothes of and come together in one big orgy.  In fact, I would not have been disgusted by or opposed to this.

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