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With its long-gestating CD crowning at last, Northern California’s Baby Seal Club is now primed to insinuate itself into the space between your couch cushions.

Born in a bathtub from a swirling nebula of alkaline dust, bourbon, limerence and hair product, Baby Seal Club has mutated from a ragtag bacchanalian side show into an artfully ear-reverent power pop band. Like a desert mirage solidifying into an art-rock hallucination, BSC exploded on stage with heart-thumping harmonies and pelvic-pounding rhythms, snaring them a North Bay Music Award for Best Indie Rock band.

Yes, BSC chewed through the walls of its playpen and has never looked back (except to find lost keys and turn the stove off). The band has been an obsession for founding members Fudo (gallivanting guitar), Wizzbang Mahnkae (brazen bass), and Choklit Chanteuse (voluptuous vocals). They've thrown scraps of what they love musically and culturally into their creative blender and poured forth a sort of guitar-driven, post-modern-indie-art-quirk-glitter-punk-pop frappé -- perfect to quench the thirst of those who love to dance, bop, shimmy, shake, ruminate, masticate, primp, flame, titillate, wonder and smirk.

With the recent addition of Nectar (their long-sought-after dream drummer) the band is feeling unstoppable at last. Rounding out the group at live performances are occasional appearances by the Wavy Seals, Uncle Stabby (prurient percussion) and Ewephoria (temptress of toast).

Look for their debut eponymous CD and beguiling videos for Zeroes & Ones and Default World, coming in Spring 2012. Stay abreast of Baby Seal Club’s playdates and find more band information at babysealclub.com & facebook.com/babysealclub. Once you’re hooked and your heart’s gone all flippy-floppity with silly human sentiment, you’ll want to join the other FlipperTrippers. Remember... it takes a cult.

A heartfelt clubbing goes out to: Else Olava, Jeremy French, Uncle Stabby, John Mitchell, Agent 19, Mark Nichols, Oz Fritz, Heather Newman, Patrick Malone, Jason Baldwin, Mani Naill, Ahmed Rahim, Clifford Hill, Skye Barnett, Loi Medvin, Larry Krause, Ari Poppers, Andy Briglio, Marcy Mendelson, Ty Jones, Spring Maxfield, The Handcar Regatta, Bryce Williams, Sooz Sykes, Les Claypool, Rivertown Revival, Shennon O'Donnell, Benjamin Renaud, Lynn McFarlane, Brothers Horse, Justin Katz, Belinda Blair, Jessica Harvey-Taylor, Joegh Bullock, Bill Kennedy, Lisa Hutchinson, Shane Cox and Funk & Flash (shop here!), Mr. December, Matt Martin, Paul & the Toad in the Hole Gang, Amber Lee Baker, Daniel Nicolas, Dean Biersch & the Hop-monks, JD Limelight, Arn Anderson, Jann Samuels, Hunter Preston Boucher, Lord Huckleberry, Michael Garlington (thanks for the "Safari" photo, Mike!), Mark Growden, David Farrell, Margaret & Bud, Brino, Simon & Carole, Cosmo, Jim Stice, Muir Houghton, Aaron Grail, Byron Lerner, Brad - for inpiring the Otter Dance, Jan & Lance, Fuma & Fupa, Elise, everyone we have forgotten and the rest of our friends, families, dogs and chickens. Oh, and YOU, for stopping by our lil' sliver of cyberspace.