Okay, first thing, real news: The(e) American Revolution will be playing a show this Saturday, April 11th, at the Boiler Room in Lexington, Kentucky.  I am told that this venue is located behind the Tally-Ho, if that helps.  Go see Robert Schneider’s psych-rock band before the rest of the world discovers how amazing it is.

brian2.jpgOptical Atlas readers may know of the fiasco from a couple weeks ago when I reported that Marc Maron of Air America’s video podcast Break Room Live (aka Maron Vs. Seder) praised The Gerbils after a recent visit to SXSW.  Turns out he meant to say The Thermals (he corrected himself a couple days later). Now, at last, Optical Atlas is proud to report the emergence of an E6 connection to our favorite show. Last week saw a visit from PC Magazine’s Brian Heater, delivering a European product called “E-Cigarettes” to Marc Maron (they glow blue, and emit water vapor instead of smoke, but deliver the nicotine fix with, as Sam Seder put it, the taste of damp ashtray). This is the same Brian Heater who wrote a primer on Elephant 6 for SPIN Magazine, as well as the excellent oral history of E6 for PopMatters (which you can read here), and the final Beulah interview, posted at Optical Atlas a couple years back (here).  Sure enough, in yesterday’s BRL episode Brian Heater returned as the “pusher man,” now wearing a green Elephant 6 tee-shirt.  Now maybe he can “push” some Gerbils CDs onto Mr. Maron…  (Thanks to Carol at PC Magazine for the correction to the above post.)