For the past 20 years, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have made passionate, raucous music in Quasi. In the beginning, their partnership was marital as well as musical, but it continued past their divorce and concurrent with their work in other bands: Coomes in Heatmiser with Elliott Smith when Quasi began, and later as a guest with Built To Spill; Weiss as a member of Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks and Wild Flag. Mole City (Kill Rock Stars) is a culmination of Quasi’s many strengths: its oversaturated and distorted sound, its singsong and shouted melodies, its controlled abandon. Coomes will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Quasi feature.
Coomes: What the hell is going to happen after the collapse of the U.S.A.? In the Northwest, we have a head start on the situation, as the practical and psychological groundwork of the future state here is being worked out already—a state based not on arbitrary political boundaries but on common cultural, ecological and economic interests. So there will already be a well-developed, progressive model in some form of existence at the moment it becomes necessary.
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