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On Sunday Magnolia Electric Co. plays Schubas, and Molina will return to the club for a solo set every Monday in February. “It’ll give me time to work out some of the newer songs that I haven’t really had a chance to run by the band yet,” he says, “and a lot of the older material that isn’t really conducive to the group format.”
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Tragedy also followed Molina into the studio this fall, when he was working with Lowery on their collaborative album. They’d met early in 2005, after Camper Van Beethoven’s gear was stolen on tour–when the band passed through Indianapolis Molina offered to loan them some of Magnolia’s equipment. (CVB is playing the Abbey this Thursday; see the Treatment.) The two became friends, and in November Molina went to Lowery’s Sound of Music studio in Richmond, Virginia, with some of his new songs. “It was really exciting,” says Molina. “I mean, I used to buy those Camper Van Beethoven records growing up.”
Molina is already looking past the mixing of Nashville Moon to the next Magnolia album. “When I walk out of Electrical Audio, the first second my feet hit the pavement, I gotta start writing the next record. I like to write as much as possible. Of course, it doesn’t mean that I don’t edit,” he says, laughing. “Another year from now I’ll probably be throwing out a bunch of what I’m working on now.”
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