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Brian Oblivion

Cults inspired by cinema

Initially, it was a match made in hell. Although they both attended film school in San Francisco, guitarist Brian Oblivion first met Madeline Follin in a crowded San Diego nightclub, watching her brother’s band The Willowz. “I hadn’t slept for three days, and I was really super-energetic and crazy,” he says. “And when I saw Madeline, I just ran over, started drinking all of her whiskey and screaming at her. But somehow, we ended up getting along.” Read More

Cults' partnership is a match made in cinema

It’s safe to say that the single force uniting couple/musical-duo Cults is probably cinema. Singer Madeline Follin and guitarist/conceptualist Brian Oblivion (a moniker taken from the TV prophet in Cronenberg’s still-creepy “Videodrome”) both studied film in San Francisco, long before they met, and continued their education in New York once they did. Read More

Catch Cults buzz early

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