Totally Crushed Out! Sleep Valerie and banjolele want to

Valerie and banjolele want to play with the other instruments at school

with a sprinkling of dashikis

Josh Tillman stopped by our Nashville headquarters on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday afternoon and surprised us all with a lunchtime solo

Sufi mystics to Indian raga masters

and toured extensively across the globe

Totally Crushed Out! Sleep Valerie and banjolele want toConceived as a loosely based concept album around the idea of crushes and young love, that dog's sophomore album, Totally Crushed Out! is a touchstone underrated classic in line with of the era releases like the Breeders Last Splash and Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville. From the Sweet Valley High reminiscent illustrated album cover, to the A minus rating given by the dean Robert Christgau, to the Jenni Konner songwriting credit (long before she was the