Artist Info: Cigarette Stereo

CIGARETTE STEREO
The Name
Nashville, 2012. A couple twelve-year-olds in Royal Garcia's garage in Donelson. The garage had a busted stereo that only worked if you wedged a cigarette-lighter adapter from Royal's dad's F-150 into the power slot. It hissed. It ate CDs. They burned discs at the Nashville Public Library main branch — TV Girl, early Arctic Monkeys, whatever they could rip — and played them through that shitty speaker. Maeve wrote "Cigarette Stereo" on the middle-school talent show sign-up sheet. [read more...]