The Cubby Creatures

The Cubby Creatures are the musical arm of The Cubby, a San Francisco-based art collective devoted to doing the work of the Cubby, their higher power, which they say inspires them to create art, live art, and admire art for the sake of spiritual and thereby social revolution. One of their mottos is "Revolution through inspired living." The Cubby Creatures' music is accurately described by epitonic.com...

"The Creatures use a basic guitar, bass, and drums setup, plus clarinet, keyboards, violin, and assorted samples to create complicated, densely layered, cheerfully surreal music characterized by unexpected juxtapositions and inversions -- see 'Up Song,' featuring the line, 'Somebody said the world's gonna end/So pick out your clothes and pack up your friends.' That somehow exemplifies the Cubby Creatures. You might hear some of the eccentric pop of vintage Kinks, some of the inspired art-damaged lo-fi psychedelia of the Elephant Six Collective (The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo et al), and some of the inspired madness of Captain Beefheart. But then there's always that violin, which gives all the upbeat weirdness a folky, dirgelike edge."

More information about The Cubby creatures, The Cubby Collective and The Cubby can be found at http://www.cubby.net/