The Ladybug Transistor's New Album Not Named After Neighborhood

Neighborhood band The Ladybug Transistor just released a new album called Clutching Stems, which may be slightly disappointing for anyone hoping for another title based on streets in the area. The Brooklyn Paper has more:

Since releasing its first album, “Marlborough Farms,” in 1995, the band’s been anchored in Flatbush — specifically, lead singer Gary Olson’s house on Marlborough Street, which features a basement recording studio and is fondly nicknamed after that first album.



“When I first moved to the area, I liked the idea of a more communal living situation,” explained the Midwood native about that curious name. “I would just read about hippy commune working farms. I wanted to start my own cult out here in Brooklyn.”