Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards spoke with Mary Louise Kelly at The Mothership . In it they spoke about the new album, growing out of face-paint, and they tackle the topic of white privilege. There's new music from The Damned, their first in 10 years, and I wanted to play with "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" alongside it, thanks to one of my favorite music references in The Venture Bros. If you don’t know, The Venture Bros. is an [adult swim] animated series that’s kind of a spoof of superheroes, and pulp adventure stories. It’s also packed with great music references and in one scene a couple of henchmen, which is to say low-level villains, are trying out newly acquired jetpacks, and one of them insists that the two men ought to be henceforth known as “Jet Boy and Jet Girl,” in reference to the punk rock song by Elton Motello. He makes his case by appealing to the indie cred they’d receive from adopting the reference. He points out it’s French, which is almost true- more on that in a minute, and
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