The five to seven piece ÒquartetÓ is known for putting its three guitars to the floorboard & taking listeners straight off the cliff simply because "anything worth doing is worth overdoing!" Here the band is at its most Herzogian & bombastic, pulling no punches & taking no prisoners. Etched within the grooves, listeners will find epic, guitar-drenched songs about aliens, hallucinogenic psych

poster by Lindsey Simard ST-37 Austin Texas Psych legends in their first tour in 5 years ST 37, long-running specialists in bubbling-mercury riffage and German-flavored trance rock... - David Fricke (Rolling Stone) These Texas astronauts stuff their hash pipes to the brim and pay homage to Can, Amon Duul and Chrome...their psychedelicatessen of originals is stocked with brain-melting skree...- Fred Mills (Magnet) From the moment the credits open, the band launches [...]
Mar 6, 2008, 1:37pm
MVSW
Song The Linus Pauling Quartet ~ " Alien Abduction " download (via SXSW ) Here's another artist I learned about because they are playing SXSW. For some reason, there are parts of this song that remind me of the Butthole Surfers song "Pepper". Video Buraka Som Sistema ~ " Sound of Kuduro " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =4CkXhtw7UNk [...]

Our favorite thing that any critic has ever written about a Linus Pauling Quartet album is by Q Magazine, who commented "A large red sticker proclaiming WEIRD ALERT could not make things plainer." This was sort of the impression that had always carried with us about LP4, especially considering we knew them more through the man-about-internet writings of their man-about-town guitarist Ramon Medina than any actual first-person encounter with their music (this is not to say that Ramon is especially weird or anything, just that the threat of weirdness is a thread in most writing about them. [...]