In and Out: Jukebox The Ghost cover They Might Be Giants

If you had to peg a lineage here you'd say that Jukebox The Ghost are a fun, nerdy band that draw heavily from Ben Folds Five (though less working-class and more liberal arts) and Ben Folds Five was a band that drew on nerd-rock gurus They Might Be Giants. Back in a time called "the 90s," TMBG wrote that the sun was, "a mass of incandescent gas" and Jukebox The Ghost now, in 2008, tour with a song about that same star and the end of the fucking universe. Connections, inspiration, and hyper-literacy: these things bring us to Piano's on New York's Lower East Side, where Jukebox The Ghost decides to rip through They Might Be Giants' master-work, "Birdhouse In Your Soul." And if these are the next piano-based, nerd-rock geniuses, Ben Folds and TMBG passed the car keys right to the kids. Check the video below.


Julebox the Ghost - Birdhouse in Your Soul from PaulBriganti on Vimeo.