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Kyuss: Kings of the Stoner Age

Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 25 March 2011

"I DIDN'T THINK THAT at 40 years of age I would still be talking about generator parties," Kyuss frontman John Garcia says with a puzzled sigh. "It's weird that people are actually interested. It was just a party. We've all been to parties." This much is true, but then we haven't all been to parties that spawned whole musical genres, forging an alliance between sound and place that retains a mythic glow 20 years later.

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