TOONS is at times a surprising wordsmith stoner and at times a broody, crashing-on-the-couch (“just for a few days”) and hitting-on-all-your-friends stoner. They have some important questions to ask: “I wonder how, where did all these cows comes from? And I wonder cow, where did all this bread come from? And I wonder bread…”, ambitions: “I’m gonna look at you get naked, I brought all these dollars for your panties tonight”, and a haunted past: “God left me on a garbage can, now I’m right back here again…all my friends they don’t like me and they aint gonna watch me change." On their latest (self titled) album, the attitude is all fun and Beastie Boys while the vocal sensibility calls up Bob Dylan and instrumentation goes garage jam all the way. Even when these songs glimpse into self-pitying disaster you get the feeling it’s all a punch line and you’re actually stuck in a Kevin Smith movie. Check out this quick but great video of ‘Bazooka Joe’ and see them at Palisades on August 4th. – Leora Mandel
