If By Yes is the latest project from the multi-talented Petra Haden. The band’s debut, Salt On Sea Glass (Chimera), took almost a decade to make and features Haden collaborating with Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu and Yuko Araki (Cornelius), as well as guests such as David Byrne and Nels Cline (Wilco). Haden is the daughter of jazz legend Charlie Haden and the sibling of musicians Rachel, Tanya (the sisters are triplets) and Josh Haden. Though she has played with a who’s-who of alt-rock and jazz artists over the past 20 years, Haden is perhaps best known for her fantastic 2005 a cappella interpretation of The Who Sell Out. Haden will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Check out the mix tape she made us in 2008, and read our brand new Q&A with her.
Haden: When you sit down to eat at the Tofu House in L.A.’s Koreatown, right away they put down small plates of food. Whether you like it or not, you get a fried fish, kimchi, bean sprouts, potato salad, pickles, If you order the soon tofu, they serve the soup in a stone bowl that is sizzling hot, then you crack an egg inside. When you are about to finish the rice, which is also in a stone bowl, the next thing you know, the waiter is filling up the bowl with hot water to loosen the left over rice stuck to it. Eating at the Tofu House is a fun experience. It’s good to go with a lot of friends. Or alone.
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