Beyond the corn and soy fields of Illinois' underbelly is the unlikely home of an intensely focused American rock band. As vicious as they are elegant, The Funs' sounds emanate from 100-year-old bricks, rattling the sagging windows of an abandoned funeral-home-turned-artist-residency the duo built as their home. The Funs are not a band. They are a self-described cult, converting anyone willing to get close enough to the blood and noise. If you dig, they'll take you in. The Funs, also known as Jessee Rose Crane and Philip Jerome Lesicko, spent years transforming their hoarded old house of death into something of a sanctuary for one life's most affirming practices, artistic creation. Building it tooth and nail into an artist and musician's residency ... mehr lesen