GLASS GOBLINS has just (spring 2010) released our album LOST SOUL ISLAND, which was recorded in Seattle between 2004 and 2007. Major evolution has taken place since then in terms of personnel and material (some of which is documented at archive.org or elsewhere). But our basic premises remain the same.

This fall we will be releasing our 2nd full-length, imaginatively entitled GLASS GOBLINS, which features Secret Weapon Woody (electric guitar), Simon Thomsen (drums), and jef Hogan Buffa (bass). GLASS GOBLINS was recorded by Andrew Bush at Grandma's Warehouse here in Echo Park and it sounds terrific.

At around the time of that release we plan to be recording our 3rd full-length, which will feature Scott Keil (drums), Jef Hogan Buffa (bass), and Jennifer Ng (percussion) ... but we will see about all of that when the time comes.

In the past, our Seattle lineup has included Wes Amundsen (plays bass on most of LOST SOUL ISLAND), Evan Strauss (bass), Patrick Lenon, Ryan Lago, and David Smith (drums)... and in Los Angeles: The rhythm section from The Voodoo Fix filled in for an outdoor set at Whittier College and an indoor show at the Unknown Theater, and more recent incarnations of GOBLINS have included Jef Hogan (bass), Secret Weapon Woody (wax-evolution guitar), Jennifer Ng (percussion), Simon Thomsen (drums), Jon Franco (drums) and the Scott Keil (drums). ... not all of them at once. At least not every time.

GLASS GOBLINS is a specific attempt to wed Japan-style psychedelia with a funky groove and songwriting in the post-Americana genre, incorporating along the way such influences as The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Coltrane, LSD March, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Velvet Underground, Acid Mothers Temple, Critters Buggin, Bob Dylan, Les Rallizes Denudes, Albert Ayler, Nirvana, Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire, Neil Young, and Phish.

In addition to LOST SOUL ISLAND we have released several EPs including Live At Chop Suey and Kira.

...The name GLASS GOBLINS comes from the title of a story by Mr. Harlan Ellison. The story is called: "Shattered Like A Glass Goblin." Ellison's story could be taken in a few ways. I see it as a tale of intra-cultural communication failure. It is written beautifully, and is sonically quite vivid.