(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "3 SECONDS TO CROSS")
Their crowdfunding brought back a band born in the crowds of New York.Ī new song by Luscious Jackson begins somewhere in New York City. The band financed its new album with a pledge drive online. "We're in Brooklyn and we're still making it work," Cunniff says. The band kept that lighthearted feel despite more than a decade off - a time of having kids and trying other careers. Luscious Jackson's new album, Magic Hour, sounds like a conversation between friends. In the years that followed, the group would begin playing in clubs themselves, have their songs heard on the radio and sign to the Beastie Boys' label, Grand Royal. "There were probably 20 of us, all underage, running around to clubs." "I remember meeting Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys in front of the UK Club at a Bad Brains show," says Cunniff. "It was all kind of colliding at the same time."Īnd in that mix in the early 1980s, the musicians made connections that served them for years. "We were all about 13, 14, and it was an amazing time, as far as not only bands playing but also the early rap scene and the breakdancing scene," Glaser says. Mark's Place, and I believe Kate, as well," Cunniff says.
The group, known for the hit " Naked Eye," includes Glaser, drummer Kate Schellenbach and singer-bassist Jill Cunniff. Glaser's lyrics suggest her connection to New York - a city where people still walk for miles, or meet people on the sidewalk the way the members of Luscious Jackson once did. "And you're just like, 'How can any human being cross the street that fast?'" You do step off the curb and then it changes to red," says singer-guitarist Gabby Glaser. traffic light might give you three seconds to cross the street. The narrator lies awake longing to be in California, though it becomes apparent a New Yorker like her really wouldn't fit in: "It only takes just a little to get yourself lost."Ĭalifornia, we're told, is a land unfriendly to pedestrians, where an L.A. "3 Seconds to Cross," a new song by Luscious Jackson, begins somewhere in New York City.
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