I’ll admit, I was skeptical. The last time I saw Rage Against the Machine, I was in high school. Seemed like the kinda thing best left to more innocent times, but I was wrong. RATM thrilled, and the other agit-prop curious artists they wrangled for their day-long fest at the L.A. Coliseum were solid . Erik Voake shot. SPIN.
Napkin Holder plays "Single Ladies" using a single lady.
Weirder things have happened, but corresponding with a guy who calls himself “Napkin Holder” is medium-high on my long-running personal list of journalistic strangeness (doing the “Humpty Dance” with Digital Underground and going on a “groove cruise” with the Flaming Lips currently holding spots number one and two, respectively). Odder still, this piano-playing, pop-covers YouTube phenom is decidedly unweird as an interview subject — basically, your reserved virtuosic nerd type (with all due respect). He’ll be performing at the Space 15 Twenty, er, space across from Amoeba Music in Hollywood on Saturday evening. Read all about it via our Q&A on LA Weekly‘s West Coast Sound.
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