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By Music Source | Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 11:03 AM

Ben Sisario reviews the Asylym Street Spankers’ revue, now playing the West Village, in today’s New York Times. A sampling:

“Dedicated to acoustic instrumentation, but mischievously unorthodox in every other way, this octet from Austin, Tex., is equal parts Betty Boop, the Marx Brothers and John Belushi, reveling in moony musical-saw solos as well as the most adolescent vulgarities.”

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