Man Man: Interview Van Outside The Knitting Factory, NYC  Philly
rock-like outfit/collective/band Man Man came out with their
second album, Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu), a couple months ago. I
heard the album's "Tunneling Through The Guy," a brooding,
mostly instrumental mind-fuck of a song, in a record store and
subsequently walked out the door with my own copy of the LP. The
record held up to three or four days of constant listens.
Catchy, soulful, challenging, beautiful, cacophonous, acerbic,
exciting, and at times disorienting, I began wondering what this
music would sound like live.  I saw they were playing a show at
Knitting Factory in a few days. Gold. But I was broke – too
broke to pay $10. So, I fell back on the ol' interview-the-
band/get-in-free routine and set it all up. It seemed to be
working out just fine, until their PR contact abruptly stopped
e-mailing me mid-week, stranding me without a confirmation or a
guest list spot. The day of the show, a Friday, I assumed
nothing was happening. That night I