the monolators: detroit
Eli and Mary, of The Monolators fame, were in Lansing, MI, over the holiday season and I had the honor of tagging along to their latest jam-practice session in Detroit. Those of you who are not familiar with their music, they describe themselves as:
… a husband-and-wife rock duo from Los Angeles. Originally a trio, the band slimmed their ranks in the summer of 2005 to a twosome and, with the change in personnel, also migrated away from the garage-punk goofiness of their debut album, Rejection Set Me Free, to a more serious (but certainly not somber) tone for their second full-length release, Our Tears Have Wings.
They had been invited down to Southgate to Modern Exchange, "vintage clothes, café, live music." The place is great and we spent some time with the lead singer of the band Friends of Dennis Wilson, who had been the one to send them the invite.
The Monolators are going on a tour later in January, 2007, playing shows all the way up to Seattle on the West Coast. Here are some photos I took of their practice. I think, for using a $7 insta-camera, they turned out rather well:
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