Cold War Kids September 7, 2006

Cold War Kids make songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls. Using songs of Dylan, Billie Holiday and the Velvet Underground as a road map, they strive to manipulate, structure and style their music with honesty. Elvis Perkins issues out songs that are at once personal and universal, combining poetry and melody in a sound unmistakably his own. Dr. Dog is a member of the band Raccoon.