Crown Now - R.I.P. Darby Crash (side b)

Friendship Bracelet 2006.

(Darby Crash was the name of a rat, not the lead singer of the Germs.)

"Crown Now produce exactly what To Live And Shave in L.A.’s croon king, Tom Smith, must have sounded like as a kid in the backwoods with his Boones Farm-addled pals. With pimple-powered early Suckdog energy, this duo of delirious nerdniks howl along with broken records and messed up tapes, using their shitty microphones’ on/off switches to great effect. Love it! Ain’t nothing like the future, baby." - Arthur Magazine

"crown now is miles and anna. it's mostly screaming and talking in funny voices, but there's some really primitive "scratching" also. they think of themselves as a hiphop band, but really it's closer to early suckdog, but from the point of view of a nerd rather than a sexual extrovert." - Jessica Rylan