Hot Damn. BARR is playing tonight and you definitely need to check them out. They’re an LA group that does talking songs (kind of like former Mercury Music Editor Adam Gnade. BARR’s, however, are a little less poetic, literary and picturesque, instead substituting introspection, personality and stream of conscious, touchy-feely humor to great effect.

“The Song is the Single” is a fucking brilliant take on the nature of music and art and the artist. Jam that shit.

Also check out “My List of Demands” on their myspace. It’s a nice little story, funny because it’s true. A very honest screed that shrewdly captures the that type of inner monologue that becomes realized.

I’m guessing the accessibility of the songs—or stories, if you’d rather—will be buttressed by the group’s live show. BARR comes out of the Smell scene in LA, which by all accounts is quite up close and personal. This show figures to be as well.

BARR tonight at Backspace.

Listen to: “The Song is the Single”