The members of Wilmington, Del.’s Spinto Band have been playing together since the mid-1990s, when they were still in high school. A decade and a half later finds Nick Krill (vocals/guitar), Thomas Hughes (bass/vocals), Jeffrey Hobson (drums), Sam Hughes (keyboards), Joey Hobson (guitar) perfecting pop sounds on the recent full-length, Shy Pursuit, in their newly built recording studio, scoring films, starting a record label and searching for the perfect cup of coffee. They will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with Krill.
Sam Hughes: I was recently on vacation in St. Louis, and this was the place that many of my friends told me that I had to check out while there. It is certainly unlike any museum I’ve ever been to, and I would equate it more to a demented playhouse run by a subversive Chuck E. Cheese or Ronald McDonald. It’s a brilliant spectacle, filled with repurposed architectural and industrial objects that both kids and adults are encouraged to climb atop of, inside of, get lost in, etc. There are 10-story slides, human hamster wheels, pipe organs, old airplanes, an aquarium and a small shoelace factory lurking within. On the day I was there, I saw a parent with an impromptu leash for his young son, so he wouldn’t get too far away and get lost in one of the dark caverns. Tragically, the visionary behind the museum, Bob Cassilly, died in 2011 while working on a different public space called Cementland in North St. Louis.
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