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Posted Nov. 13, 2007,
The Unholy Three at the Magic Castle
By Ann Magnuson
Next time PAPER swings into the Southland they really ought to get the alt-magic trio The Unholy Three to perform at the opening! (Even better, rent out the Magic Castle where the group performs regularly in the cozy Parlour of Prestidigitation!) No doubt named after the 1930 Tod Browning film The Unholy Three (called by one reviewer as "one of the strangest, most dementedly off-kilter crime dramas ever filmed), these three contemporary magicians likewise present some of the strangest, most wonderfully demented, off-kilter magic while adding their own idiosyncratic humor to create a most heady and devilishly surrealistic brew. Plus they come with some serious rock 'n' roll cred! The Unholy Three are (from left to right in the illustration above and right to left in the photo below) Pixies-drummer David Lovering, he who enigmatically calls himself Fitzgerald and Rob Zabrecky, former frontman for the infamous L.A. band Possum Dixon. I've seen them twice, most recently at the Magic Castle on Halloween weekend where I was happily in the same party as K. K. Barrett, the West Coast punk rock legend (he was the drummer for The Screamers)-turned-awesome production designer and post-punk doyenne Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Because the Magic Castle has a strict dress code, one and all were dressed to the nines (with Miss O wearing a fetching blue dress paired with a wicked pair of patent leather Pat Benatar-esque ankle boots!)