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Bye, Billy

06/24/2008

 

Cory McAbee pulls the plug on The Billy Nayer Show.

By A.D. Amorosi

 

Director, singer guitarist and composer Cory McAbee – the main man behind the crustily theatrical T Rex-meets-Kurt Weill The Billy Nayer Show – wrote a note today; a sad one.

 

“The Billy Nayer Show is dead.”

 

Weirdly romantic. Silly. Glam-ish. With each album, the San Franciscan born ensemble unearthed new ground - the skronk of The Villain That Love Built, psychedelic Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, I Will Miss You; the stark Rabbit. But now, he ended Nayer and named his new band after his Eraserhead-esque feature film, American Astronaut. And they/it have/has a new EP to prove as much – Goodbye California.

 

 

Go to the American Astronaut site and purchase the new EP. It’s also on iTunes.

 


 


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