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Monday, April 4, 2011

The Residents are 'heeeere'

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Yes, it's true. The Residents have a Facebook page, and it's active. The photo that you see just to the right of these words showed up there this afternoon with the caption, "we're heeeere."

For nearly 40 years, the Residents have flourished in the freaky fringes of absurdist pop, churning out disturbing theatrics and musical experiments that wreak havoc on the senses. Virtually nothing is known about their identity other than rumors. All of their activities are facilitated by an elusive organization known as the Cryptic Corporation, and the Residents don't do interviews… Continue Reading.

If you missed them the last time they came through town to play Variety Playhouse you can download the show via The Residents' website for cheap ($7.99). It's an uncut, unaltered soundboard recording. The quality is good and much of what they played that night was genuinely creepy as hell.

This time around the group has a new album in-tow, titled Lonely Teenager, and if you check out the download above, you'll get a good idea for the kind of stuff the mysterious ones have in store.

$27.50. 8 p.m. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. 404-524-7354.

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