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: Maybe Proust is a little too upper crust, or too lengthy. Iain M. Banks‘ Culture novels don’t require the same level of commitment, but I dig the premise: what kinds of situations might arise in a far future society where there is no money, there are no laws, and there is no scarcity because anything material anyone wants can be synthesized by immense sentient starships, in which most people live? There is no authority, no hierarchy or stratification; people can and do change their sex back and forth over the course of their long lives … an interesting scenario. Plus he wrote the non-science-fiction The Wasp Factory—definitely worthwhile.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0AvU-Myds0
