Artist: ezra furman & the harpoons

Release Date: 08.07.07 If you checked the biological records of Bob Dylan, startling results would uncover the following: Jakob Dylan was a twin brother with another named Ezra who later changed his name to Furman after the wrinkly-voiced protest poet of the 60's loaded baby Ezra and baby guitar onto a Georgia Pacific freighter destined for Chicago during the intensified throes of an acid trip in New York City 1969. If your hazy eyes fail to find such, er, substantial evidence that Ezra is in fact a Dylan, then you might just imagine the [...]

• Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - I Wanna Be Ignored

"No results for your query, weird huh?" are the words you are greeted with when you do a search of Elbo.ws for an artist or band that no one has ever written about. I should make it my motto as well. Those seven words popped up when I typed in Ezra Furman & The Harpoons the other day. This Chicago/Boston based band consists of Ezra and his pals from Tufts University in Medford (or "meffor" as they say in the Boston area). The band's been signed to Minty Fresh [...]

• Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - I Wanna Be Ignored