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"In order to understand the music of the Cubby Creatures, you need to first understand their worldview. The boys and girl who make up the group subscribe to a fundamental life principle called the 'cubby,' which is central to their philosophy of 'revolution through inspired living.' Their mission is to disseminate this philosophy through music and produce 'cubby awareness' in all those who listen."

--epitonic.com

In 1997 the Cubby Creatures first came together and identified the Cubby--a life force of sorts. While the discovery was not unique--it has been known to many different people by many different names over the course of human history--the Cubby Creatures were unique in identifying and adoring it as "the Cubby."

From the beginning, few people understood the Cubby Creatures. The Cubby Creatures and their handful of ragamuffin followers were ridiculed for the quixotic mien of their quest to enlighten the masses and bring peace to the world with their music.

By some critics they were written off as a survivalist cult; by others they were dismissed as talentless goofballs; still others suspected them of being a terrorist cell. They were branded blasphemous, condemned by the godfearing men of all races, colors, and religions, talked down to in temples, beaten in bars, bested on basketball courts.

Ten years in, no one can even say whether the Cubby Creatures, the band, even exists anymore.

It seems they've just never broken through, never been really rightly heard except for by a very few.

But through their music, the affable but misunderstood instrument of their creative collaboration, the cubby creatures attempt to communicate with their self-made deity, and the mere attempt to do so fulfills them and makes them happy.

And so they linger, maybe not soldiering on all the time but ever smoldering, never quite altogether extinguishing themselves but not doing much to distinguish themselves nor trying necessarily to do anything in particular.

They could be called--when one considers the ten years the band has existed in relation to the paucity of critical and commercial success it's achieved--the world's most unpopular band.

See for yourself why the world hasn't been ready for them.

Meet for yourself

THE CUBBY CREATURES.

The Cubby Creatures sprang from the ripe loins of San Francisco's Mission District in 1997, becoming the musical arm of an art cult called The Cubby dedicated to an abstract higher power also called the Cubby. As if this weren't confusing enough, they also used "cubby" as an adjective... as in "that's SO cubby."

the Cubby

Jol (guitar, vocals) and Brian (bass, vocals) formed the group with Emily (violin), Matt (drums) and then, on a whim, Karl (clarinet). Matt left after the band's first live show, at San Francisco's Artists' Television Access, and was replaced by Jason. Bill (keyboards, guitars, vocals) joined the cast of the Cubby Creatures' 1998 rock opera The World of Tina and shortly after properly joined the band. In 2001 Jol moved to New York and Karl started publishing novels, so the other four went on alone, and the band released its magnum opus to date, After the Deprogramming, in 2005.

The recorded output of the Cubby Creatures has proceeded at a slow pace, seemingly reflecting the band's trademark nonchalance and punkish disdain for contemporary production and marketing standards.

A Very Cubby Christmas, (1997) the band's first known recording, was produced on Brian's 4-track and released on hand-dubbed cassette, distributed one Chriskwanzukkah to a wee handful of the very humblest of SF's dot.com-era underground.

The Blessed Invention (2000) was the band's first full-length record. Self-released, this album contains a glimpse into the band's earliest songs and most primal aesthetics; it's rough kinksy pop with a poststructuralist edge.

Adopted in 2001 by San Francisco microlabel Rodent Records, the Cubby Creatures released the EP Who Remembers Kathy Barra?, whose "psychosis-inducing" title track as well as crafter anthem "Knitting Bee" mark the band's dawning maturity.

The single three sides of cubby (2002) was the long-awaited follow-up, and three years later, in 2005, After the Deprogramming, the band's most painstakingly produced full-length, was released.

Cubby Creatures recordings are available at many fine retail outlets, including rodentrecords.com, aquarius records, amoeba records, the itunes music store, et al.
Message this myspace profile for more info on acquiring Cubby rarities, including The Cubby Missalette, the art cult's self-published magazine.