Ideal Body is a band from Twentynine Palms. Few bands in the 760 have tackled garage punk, and even fewer have added melodic synths on top of the rockin’ roughness—so the addition of Ideal Body’s synth-led ragers to the Coachella Valley music space is a welcome surprise! Songs like “Preppers” evoke the classic guttural and goofy tropes of ’70s punk, with singing about “space lizards on the moon” among chord-burning energy, while jams like “Hologram Garbage Can” hone sonic qualities similar to those of modern garage-rock rippers like Surfbort and FIDLAR. For more information, visit www.instagram.com/idealbodyband. Vocalist/guitarist Josh Grelock is the latest to take The Lucky 13.
What was the first concert you attended?
Strife, at a biker church in Anaheim in the early ’90s.
What was the first album you owned?
Dead Milkmen, Big Lizard in My Backyard, on cassette.
What bands are you listening to right now?
Artificial Go, Workers Comp, Geo, and I just found out about William Onyeabor.
What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone love, but you don’t get?
Pop-punk.
What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live?
I missed the Snõõper show at Pappy’s, because I got the flu. I hope they come back up to the high desert and play again!
What’s your favorite musical guilty pleasure?
It’s not really a guilty pleasure, but I like to listen to Dirty Art Club in my studio when I’m working.
What’s your favorite music venue?
My favorite music venue was this short-lived club in East L.A. called The Bollocks. I would go there every weekend when I was a teenager. I saw the craziest shit there.
What’s the one song lyric you can’t get out of your head?
“You don’t know me and you don’t know my style,” “Method Man,” Wu-Tang Clan.
What band or artist changed your life? How?
When I first heard the Count Five’s song “Psychotic Reaction,” I was blown away how punk it sounded for the ’60s. Then I found the Back From the Grave comps, and I haven’t stopped looking for cool ’60s garage bands.
You have one question to ask one musician. What’s the question, and who are you asking?
It’s always best to not meet your heroes.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
“Rockin Bones” by Ronnie Dawson, because I want to be bones, not dust.
Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?
Talking Heads, Fear of Music.
What song should everyone listen to right now?
William Onyeabor, “Fantastic Man.”
