LOS ANGELES - WIDOW BABIES DRINK MOON MILK

Danny, Tabor, Elise, and Neal are the Widow Babies, magnificent eccentrics whose first release was a concept record about Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt's battle with a vampiric Abe Lincoln. Track titles include "Mike Watt Created the Universe With a Bass Solo" and "In Which Watt Wins His Hands Back and Basses a River Into Existence." As concept records go, it's not quite up there with The Point! by Nilsson (which he even made into a cartoon), but it's certainly not half-assed.

Musically, they take cues from the aforementioned Minutemen, punk heroes the Urinals, plus a little dash of Abe Vigoda's tropical punk guitar sound, which makes sense because they're all LA Smell brats. They recently sent me their first full-length record,

Jetpacks

(which is out now on

Olfactory Records

), and it's been hounding my stereo since. Here's my current favorite track.

The Widow Babies - "Moon Milk"

JOEL WRIGHT