The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Dazed And Confused, Friends, Entourage, Zodiac, 2 Days In Paris and the Flaming Lips’ Christmas On Mars. The band’s 10-track, self-titled album (on Apology Music/Play It Again Sam) follows Goldberg’s 2009 musical debut, Eros And Omissions, released under the moniker LANDy. As with that project, The Goldberg Sisters finds Goldberg collaborating with Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart, Admiral Radley), though this time out, the duo was assisted by a handful of other musicians, including Goldberg’s girlfriend Roxanne Daner on violin. The result is a satisfying collection of effects-heavy, urbane psychedelia held together by Goldberg’s high-pitched, Lennon-esque croon. Goldberg will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with him.
Goldberg: A friend told me this book saved his brother’s life. Not mine. I’m in ever-increasing agony from some disc issues, the pain of which seems to be a disease in and of itself (colonizing seemingly unrelated sectors of myself, feeding my conviction that something truly and fatefully nefarious is going to befall me), that the MRI I had in 1999 is a useless relic. I’m wary of ideologues of any stripe. For the left, for the right, for the wrong, for the right. It’s hard for me to swallow a blanket philosophy if I detect an author’s own conversion to his hypothesis, rather than merely a statement of his findings. Having said that, I really, really want to believe what Dr. Sarno says is true. It certainly resonates with me: that most, not all, chronic pain is a function of having not dealt with something or many things that weighs on them heavily, perhaps sub-consciously; and that the many millions who suffer and spend many millions on an industry of pain that feeds off this game of whack-a-mole can only truly liberate themselves from the pain by liberating themselves from the pain specialists they are addicted to. (I have one in every town.)
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