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05.11.09Interview: SUCKS TO LALA LANDI thought it was about time I caught up with the voice behind Sucks To LaLa Land, the one and only Keith Crain, and put to him the questions that you folks will someday need answered, maybe not today, and possibly not tomorrow, but definitely sometime in the not too distant future. Here's how it went... Smally: When did you start writing music and why? Keith: i started writing music about 3 or 4 years ago. Smally: So why Bob Dylan? And what is your favourite Dylan song? Keith: Why Bob Dylan!? Because his songs make me feel something. His lyrics are set up in such ...
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04.17.09Review: SUCKS TO LALA LAND “Well Under Thirty”The Psychedelic Gods said "Let there be sound", and there was sound. Triptacular, primal, headmelting, sonic melodies that brought them to their knees beneath the holy strobe of kaleidoscopic colour. And The Psychedelic Gods heard it was good - so very fucking fine - but after several triptacular, primal, headmelted, sonic hours of said melodies, they could no longer hear themselves dream and commanded the sound to stop. And stop it did. But then, as they closed their drug-heavy eyelids weighed down with cosmic visions, they heard something within the thick folds of silence, just a guitar and a voice entwined in ...
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04.03.09SUCKS TO LALA LAND – Well Under ThirtyOut Today! Now this is exciting. Been a long time since we first heard and were blown away by River Speak English's "Puzzle Piece" on Daydream Generation 2. A year and a half later and we're made up to be hosting one half of the aforementioned collaboration's debut record. "Well Under Thirty" is a collection of Bob Dylan covers by Sucks To LaLa Land's Keith Crain - as well as being a beautiful introduction to this talented singer/songwriter, it's arguably as great a collection of Dylan covers as I've ever heard. Listening to the 8 tracks featured was like discovering Bob ...