obits are rick froberg, sohrab habibion, greg simpson, and scott gursky. They reside in brooklyn, ny. There is a bootleg of their first live show from jan. '08 at the cake shop in ny somewhere on the internet. As with most of these sorts of things, the sound quality of that recording is pretty poor. The songs though... The songs are really great. Obits like a lot of music - television, wipers, michael yonkers, 13th floor elevators, neu!, the shangri-las, african psych, punk rock. They don't really sound that much like ccr, maybe a little. Obits came out to seattle in july of 2008 and played sub pop's 20th anniversary festival. In december of 2008, they released their first single, "one cross apiece" b/w "put it in writing" on their own stint records ... read more