Press Release: Greg Ashley’s ‘Living Underground’ is Out Now on Bad Diet Records (We’re Not Trolling!)
When Phil Spector didn’t reply from his padded pad at the California Health Care Facility to Bad Diet’s offers to release a non-profit “Freedom Benefit” record, we were phil’n bummed. So we pulled out the Ouija and asked Christopher Lee and Peter Lorre “why must adulting in America be difficult?” After slapping us for comedic effect, the planchette spelled out “basement.” Oh lad, did we rush down there (with our iFlashlight guiding us like Steve Jobs’s head in a black turtleneck)!
What did we find? Well, our gifted boxes of Soylent were all wet. And purple-y. Turns out, an Igor, who presumably lived in our basement years before, stashed angry absinthe down there. And a Polaroid…of what we initially thought was a 1960s nudie girl wearing an Oculus Rift! Holy fuck, we exclaimed, does John Titor have a band? Unlisted crypto was cha-chinging through our heads. But with a smidge of thumb, the HMD was revealed to be a blindfold. “This is getting dark,” we thought, “and boring!”
The very next week: Greg Ashley replies to us. The Greg Ashley. Whether solo, with his band the Gris Gris, casting magic behind the boards at the Creamery (RIP), or with King Khan, Ashley is one of our all-time favorite rockers. Yeah, let’s do something! His lone contingency? We title the Greg Ashley x Bad Diet release Living Underground. Done!
Bad Diet is releasing Living Underground on Halloween. Why would we not? It contains two archival cuts, one from the Gris Gris; other is by Ashley’s Oakland supergroup, Sir Lord Von Raven. King Khan counts Ashley among his elite “Kukamongas,” and rock lifer, Adam Shore, former HMIC of VICE Records, a true swami for our label, says, “Greg Ashley is a true psychedelic visionary, maybe the greatest of his generation.”
Ash to Ashley, dust to trust, this spellbinding Bad Diet release is a total must.
We are honored.
