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: What would I do without ’50s-’60s TV series The Twilight Zone? I don’t know. I’m watching William Shatner letting a fortune-teller napkin holder run his life and Agnes Moorehead not say one word while tiny robots attack her in her dark depressing house. And aliens kidnapping earthlings “To Serve Man,” only to realize they are to be recipes for a cookbook on another planet! I love falling asleep to The Twilight Zone.
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