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“It’s all an elaborate hoax.” The reported final words of film critic Roger Ebert frame a haunting new song by Clem Snide, the artistic alias of songwriter Eef Barzelay. The track is the first release ...

“The name is Clem Williamson Snide, I am a private asshole,” begins the private detective protagonist in William Burroughs’ fairly unfamed 1981 effort, Cities of the Red Night. Burroughs’ hero sleuths ...

Cerebral alt-rock band Clem Snide have re-banded to record The Meat of Life, their seventh full-length album. The new record, due February 23, will be released by 429 Records. Chief songwriter Eef ...

Since its inception in the late 1990s, Clem Snide always seemed like a band on the verge of breaking out. But for one reason or another — perhaps they were a little too smart or quirky for mainstream ...

For Clem Snideâ s latest tour, singer/songwriter/guitarist Eef Barzelay has been seeking out unique venues, but the Milwaukee show will be different for another reason. For Clem Snide’s latest tour, ...

One part Oscar Wilde and one part Kermit the Frog, Clem Snide’s Eef Barzalay has a voice all his own. On 2001’s Ghost of Fashion, he trod the thin line between clever and too clever, keeping on the ...

Clem Snide has had an almost comically fractured history. Formed in 1991, the band broke up not long after, then regrouped and finally released a debut album—the stunning You Were A Diamond—in 1998.

Clem Snide has had an almost comically fractured history. Formed in 1991, the band broke up not long after, then regrouped and finally released a debut album—the stunning You Were A Diamond—in 1998.