The Birthday Party, The Screamers, Struction, Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, struggle, heat, discouragement, unemployment, failure, the past, the future.
Coma hails from a two-block radius in Albany, NY (a city with deadly low self-esteem, but I digress). They practice in a spooky warehouse across the river. The three boys performing under the name Coma have spent the last almost-decade playing their little hearts out in musical outfits of tiny personal successes (Zahnarzt, Lincoln Money Shot, Amazing Plaid) and retarded, cringe-inducing failures.
Coma sounds like a nihilistic ghost trapped in the body of a friendly robot. It's wicked reductive to compare 'x' to 'y', but that's what you're interested in, right? Well, the boys like to listen to Scott Walker, Bobby Conn, the Screamers, the Birthday Party, David Bowie and the fun Brian Eno records. They enjoy cozy living rooms, bottomless dark nights of monumental personal reflection, drinking with friends and listening to dub-step. Their turn-offs include old people and tacky coupons.
He came to speak at SUNY Albany and I was sitting in the front row and could ask him any question I wanted to. At first I was clueless as to what to ask.
Compiled by Sub-Bombin' artist Ghoul Poon, "Do the Fright Thing" is a Halloween themed compilation made up solely of musicians from the capitol district area of New York (Albany/ Saratoga Springs/ Glens Falls, etc) and features a wide variety of genres (punk, indie, electro, hip hop, noise and more). Enjoy guys and have a happy Halloween!!
1. Desperately Obvious - Oh! It's Halloween 2. Daytime Soiree - Zombie Apocalypse 3. Scientific Maps - Halloween 1985 4. Asa Morris - The Monster 5. Pete Pluto, Mr. Mcfeely & El Sciz - Superstition* 6. Suzy Wong and the Honkeys - Ghost 7. Ghoul Poon - Satanic Lunch 8. Matthew Loiacono - For Buffy the Vampire Slayer 9. Mr. Mcfeely - Buried Alive** 10. Firefighter Font - Ghost Food 11. Sai u Drom - The Butcher 12. Beware! the Other Head of Science - The Monster Song 13. Tobiaz - Around the Bend 14. Contact Kiss - This Halloween 15. Harry Pyle - Witch's Brew 16. Pinkriverdolphin - Ghosts from Outerspace 17. GM - Mask Slips** 18. Christopher Brown - Halloween Show 19. Worlds of Shit - Bad New for Barbara 20. Daniel Levine - The Man Who Comes to Take You Home 21. Jason Cosco - Them
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