Artist description A loose musical collective striving towards competence in popular musical performance, and often achieving it in a roundabout way.

Music Style Populist eclecticism

Musical Influences Fred Schneider

Similar Artists Hmm... Tom Waits? The Violent Femmes? Sly and the Family Stone? John Updike?

Group Members Matt Bull-bass,vocals ... Cosmo Lee-guitar,sampler ... Todd Stadler-drums,percussion

Instruments bass, guitar, drums

Albums The Day the Skeeters Came to Town and Other Tales

Press Reviews "You guys were great!" - My friend Fernando "So [The Layabouts] beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Location Houston, TX - USA

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