Matt Adams of the Blank Tapes is one of those people who sounds as if he's running a mile a minute, even via email—and that's not a bad thing if you're leading a band that has been all over the place—or at least all over the state. Having started performing in Orange County years ago, before getting things fully going with his band in San Francisco, Adams and the current lineup of his crew of psych/garage/frug performers are back, leading the regular Monday-night Detroit Bar residency for this month. As Adams notes, although he had been thinking of it for a few years, he finally moved back to Southern California for a good reason: "I met Pearl Charles, an LA girl with a beautiful voice who now... More >>>