New band of the day – No 683: Freelance Whales

This itinerant band of former buskers create a sort of junk-shop, thrift-store vibe with a rustic, homespun charmHometown: Queens, New York.The lineup: Judah Dadone (drums, bass, guitar), Kevin Read (harmonium, banjo, cello), Doris Cellar (glockenspiel, microkorg), Jake Hyman (jp-8000, waterphone), Chuck Criss (bing carbon telephones).The background: Busking is the new black, or something. Like Marques Toliver, Freelance Whales formed (really recently, incidentally, in late 2008) after a period ...

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