After finishing out 2007 on tour with both the Flaming Lips and Aesop Rock, Black Moth Super Rainbow are issuing a single (”Zodiac Girls” on Suicide Squeeze) before taking the rest of the year off to work on new material. The Pittsburgh-based experimental pop combo has had a quite a run of it in support of Dandelion Gum (Graveface), their 2007 full-length, so we can only expect more weirdness and wonder from “Tobacco” (who answered our questions) and his cohorts. — Thomas Rooker White

Favorite music venue/city…
Paramount theater in Seattle (best dressing rooms!), or the Empty Bottle in Chicago (favorite sound).

Random iTunes top 10…
Witch Hazel Sound, “Music Becomes Vibration”
Longmont Potion Castle, “Stop Playing Harmonica”
Flying Lotus, “Fantastic Whore”
Lone, “Proper Vivid”
Odd Nosdam, “We Bad Apples”
REO Speedwagon, “Can’t Fight This Feeling”
Stone Temple Pilots, “Samba Nova”
MGMT, “The Youth”
DJ Signify, “Shatter & Splatter”
Ruth White, “The Litanies of Satan”

Record that changed your life…
The Diabolical Biz Markie, The Biz Never Sleeps (got me into music in 3rd grade), then
The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin

Best band from your city (besides yourself)…
ivanhoe (1968 - 1980?)

CMJ or SXSW?
SXSW, but we’ve never been to CMJ.

Movies in your Netflix queue…
Blockbuster online:
The Warriors
“Tales From the Crypt,” season 6 disc 3
Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Favorite place for new threads…
Any place with nice white V-neck tshirts that are slightly form-fitting, but most importantly, hold up after some solid washing. That might mean American Apparel.

Favorite board game…
Crossfire

Weirdest MySpace comment or message…
“First things first. The keyboardest in your band basically gives me a throb monster.
Her insanity makes me want thrust time…period” [sic]

Guiltiest Pleasure - thing you watch, read, listen to - that no one knows about…
“A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila”

Tags: Black Moth Super Rainbow, Flaming Lips, Biz Markie, Ruth White, MGMT, Tila Tequila