Sad Rockets is Andrew Pekler, a 20 something, Uzbekistan-born, Californian- raised and Heidelberg-residing multi-instrumentalist. His first 2 albums of Sad Rockets instrumental music, available on the Morbid and Source labels, are a whirlwind trip through Andrew’s bedroom studio, a place where soundtracky noir styles, sideways R&B, appropriate nods to jazz, soul, punk, beats lost & found, suave romantic moments, high comedy (in low places) and way too much style somehow all fit onto 4 tracks. [...]

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08/04/00 — Sad Rockets:
Shit you overhear at parties.
Andrew Pekler, aka Sad Rockets: “I just moved to Berlin a week ago and am very excited to finally be living in a real city after having spent the first 25 years of my life in the provinces (Monterey CA, Heidelberg, Germany). But rather than bore you with the details of my move, let me tell you an anecdote I heard recently. Two guys talking:

John: ‘Hey Bill, an embarrassing thing happened to me recently.’
Bill: ‘What’s that?’
John: ‘Well, when I went to the travel agent’s to get a plane ticket for my trip to Pittsburgh, the woman that helped me had such large breasts that I inadvertently said “I’d like a round trip ticket to Titsburg.” Man, was that embarassing!’
Bill: ‘That reminds me of something similar that happened to me. When I was on vacation last month with my wife, we were sitting at the breakfast table and I wanted to say “Honey, could you pass me the butter?” but what slipped out instead was “You fucking bitch! You’ve ruined my whole goddamn life!”’”

(Note: the management of Matador Records does not necessarily condone the use of the words “vacation” or “butter.” We’d also like to tell you that Sad Rockets’ upcoming Matador debut LP/CD is called ‘Transition,’ not ‘Blue Room,’ as previously noted).