Jose Garcia and Juan Wauters don’t have much in common. For those familiar with The Beets, the jangly, lo-fi trio the two New Yorkers founded a little more than four years ago, this may come as some surprise. Write-ups on the band run thick with spontaneous road trips in a 1985 Volvo and all-day hangouts in a pad littered with MAD magazines and filled with the sound of Howard Stern.
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