Show for August 15, 2010. They Might be Giants and One Ring Zero.
This seemed like a natural pairing: two endlessly creative, eclectic, eccentric two-man songwriting teams, both with new albums on sciency subjects. They Might Be Giants bring the pedagogy (and lots of TMBG whimsy) to Here Comes Science, a collection of science songs for kids. One Ring Zero takes a looser, more metaphorical approach in their celestial song cycle Planets. We talked with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants about the former, and with Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero about the latter, while auditing some choice tracks.
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One Ring Zero performs Venus (with numerous sightings of Michael on claviola):
