LEO: Radical Dads, your mama is…
Christopher Diken: So incredibly intelligent, caring, and supportive, it’s no wonder you’ve all become so wildly successful and good-looking.
LEO: Are you a pop band? Rock? Experimental?
CD: We are a rock band.
LEO: The cover of your album is very striking. What is going on there? Was that the band’s idea or the artist’s?
CD: Thanks! We like to think of it as a creature emerging from the Gowanus Canal, although there’s a good chance it could be something else entirely. It was the artist’s idea. His name is Michael Deforge.
LEO: What’s it like, having men in the band? That must be weird!
CD: It’s sort of like having more than one fly in your soup.
LEO: Favorite ’90s bands?
CD: Pixies, Superchunk, Sleater-Kinney, The Clean, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, The Lilys, Don Caballero, The 3Ds.
LEO: What is your favorite non-musical work about music?
CD: “The Loser” by Thomas Bernhard.
LEO: Instead of rehashing how you got together – How will you break up, eventually?
CD: We’ll break up when humans deplete all the world’s natural resources, thus making electricity impossible and electric guitars obsolete.
LEO: Know any good jokes?
CD: How many lead guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb? None — they just steal someone else’s light.
Radical Dads with Nerves Junior
Wednesday, June 29
Zanzabar
8 p.m., $5
c. 2011 LEO Weekly
