Show & Tell: I show the interviewees some what random pictures and they tell me whatever pops into their head. This time around it’s Zola Turn, hailing from Burlington, VT.

Zola Turn is Jennifer Karson, guitar/vocals, Alice Austin, guitar/vocals, Julia Austin/vocals, bass, and Rachel Bischoff, drums/vocals. Their sound has been described as “a menage-a-trois of Joan Jett, Belly and Kate Bush”, “Kinda pop-influenced hypnotic-metal folk-rock”, “dissonant and psychedelic... (sounding like) early Jefferson Airplane and PJ Harvey”, and, um, “goth”.

The band formed in late 1995 and started playing around Burlington, VT immediately. They have also been bouncing around New England and Montreal a lot during the past year. Just to name drop, some of the bands they have played with include: Blink 182, Lucid Nation, The Red Telephone, Free Verse, The Figgs, The Indigo Girls, and members of The Breeders, Come, and Luscious Jackson.

Their debut album “Cousin Battie”, is, well, about gone. At the time of this interview (10/98) there were about three copies left. But fear not! By the time you read this they will have a 7” EP out and a new full-length is due out next year.
Zola Turn can be reached at:

Zola Turn
PO Box 384
Burlington VT 05402
Or www.zolaturn.com.

	Julia: Hazelnuts Jenn: Romance Alice: Work this morning. I’m a baker. Rachel: You bake chocolate? Alice: Uh-huh
	Julia: Ugh, I just knew it was a Camel ad even before I saw the word “Camel”.... Rachel: What are they doing? Julia: ...it’s the colors. Alice: I used to have friends who had, there’s a Jack Russell terrier there, a Jack Russell terrier, and its name was Flash, who could put his lip up like this (Alice tucks her upper lip behind itself). Julia: He could smile? Interesting. Jenn: I look at that and I think what kind of backdrop that is, it’s just... flat. Rachel: I think it looks pretty cheap and pretty cheesy all around, and what the heck are they doing with those cartons of smokes?
	Jenn: I haven’t heard their new single yet. Rachel: Who’s that? Jenn: Hole! Julia: Yeah, but you would never know though. She got her nose done and it looked better before. And I guess she got liposuction on her ass. Alice: We were talking about this in the car though. I asked Jenn if she had heard the Hole single and she was like “No I haven’t heard it, how is it?” And I was like “uhhh, I don’t want to like it, but I really do.” There’s nothing about it that’s interesting all it, but the more you hear it... Jenn: I think Courtney Love is more talented than anybody wants to give her credit for, including me. Rachel: Yeah, exactly. Just because you don’t like her... Jenn: She was great in the movie, “(The People Vs.) Larry Flint”.
	Alice: Oh Yeah! Julia: Hype, Hype, Hype Alice: What? Julia: Sports. Who cares? Jenn: Now, who is that? Oh! McGwire. Alice: I think this is great. I don’t listen to sports at all on the radio or TV. But it’s so political and cultural at this point about the home run race, you know. I was listening to some kind of documentary or interview or something on public radio about Sammy Sosa and people from the Dominican Republic talk about him as such a hero, and how he’s not even recognized in the same way at all as Mark McGwire. Jenn: It’s been a healthy diversion, I think, for the media. Alice: It’s all homeruns and blowjobs.
	everyone: ughh, sad, pathetic, so sick of it. Rachel: Let him do his job and just move on and stop wasting money and time. Jenn: Let him do her job and let her do his job if she wants to too. laughter
	Julia: Shark eye! Jenn: Shark eye? Alice: What the fuck... Julia: Plucking... plucked half way through... ouch. Alice: What is that. Julia: A bandage, an eye with a bandage.
	Julia: Who is that? Janis? I thought it was Ozzy. Rachel: She looks pretty sad, depressed, painful... Julia: All I thought was the word “pain” when I saw it. Alice: So there’s a life wasted. Another rock star, dead.
	Julia: That looks like the buildings in old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Which is a really nice place to visit if you haven’t been there. It’s got really, really old architecture. I’ve been to places in the world where there’s been things from the 1700’s, but in old San Juan there building from like the 1200’s, 1300’s, 1400’s. Ancient, ancient stuff...
	Julia: ...I don’t know what’s up with the egg on the iron though. Jenn: Interesting juxtaposition. They didn’t actually cook it on that because it would have run down into the things. Alice: Why do the call it a waffle iron? There’s no egg iron. Jenn: Why is there no egg iron?!?
	Alice: Ha ha ha Jenn: Crab cakes? Alice (reading): Seafood Cocktail, Hot Clam Chowder. Julia: That looks like something out of Life magazine... Jenn: I can’t tell what is going on. Rachel: It looks sort of sexist or rude somehow, but I can’t tell how. Alice: Like, where are their faces, they’re all crabs, what does that mean? me: That’s Shonen Knife, by the way. Julia: Oh, that’s Shonen Knife? Jenn: Who... Julia: It’s a band... three Japanese women who play poppy-punk kind of stuff.... Alice: Japanese rock will take over the world. Julia: And their English is a little bit... They have very heavily accented English. I have a CD that has a Christmas song of theirs on it that goes, (singing like Shonen Knife) “Merry Merry Christmas / Happy Happy Christmas / Merry Merry Christmas / Happy New Year / I see Santa Claus / He come on back of sleigh...”
	Julia: Creepy, I hate clowns. Jenn: It reminds me of Alice’s bathroom... Rachel: It’s a clown in a straightjacket too. Jenn: Hey, is my wig still in that bathroom? Alice: Yeah. I’ll have to get that for you. Jenn: I don’t think I want it anymore. You can get me a fresh one. Alice: I’ll clean it for you. Jenn: Noooo! Are you kidding! Alice: What do you mean? Julia: Alice had a the grossest bathroom in her last apartment. Jenn: That was the most disgusting bathroom. I don’t want a hairpiece from that bathroom. Julia: The whole thing was done in a clown motif Jenn: It didn’t smell like clowns... Julia: It smelled like clowns ass.
	Jenn: Is that a twinkie? Alice: No! It’s cotton candy! There’s probably a clown on the front of that fucker too! Oh, it’s sponges. Sponges. Rachel (reading): Ingredients: Who are you kidding? You know what this stuff is made of, nothing. It’s not good for you. You know what’s good for you? Tennis. Fresh Air, exercise... Julia: I thought it was cigarettes. Alice: That’s funny. Jenn: I have no idea what... Rachel: What... Is it cotton candy? Julia: It’s just something... Some substance that isn’t real. Jenn: I heard that twinkies never get cooked. They have an 80 year shelf life.
	Alice: I want to be on his show. Julia: He is so annoying. Alice: Look at that picture of him too. He’s like (in a very snooty voice) “Hmmm, Hmmm, Look at my suit.” Julia: He’s more of a real person though... Jenn: I don’t think that’s a very good color for him. Julia: No. Yellow is just not his color. Alice: What’s with the bubbles? Jenn: Bubbles. Julia: Maybe it’s sort of a Lawrence Welk illusion or something.
	Julia: Should I know who that is? Alice: That looks like some wrestler guy. Julia: Is that some famous guy? Is that one of the Killer Bees? Rachel: That guy looks pretty scary. Julia: He looks like some guy that we would want to be our bodygaurd. Jenn: He looks like a bouncer at Necter’s. Alice: It looks like he needs a little bit more... flexibility probably. Julia: ...from a personal training point of view. I point out that’s Steve Austin. And that he’s about three times more popular that Hulk Hogan was in his prime. Julia: Love the name. That’s what I was going to be named if I was a boychild... Rachel: Hulk Hogan? Julia: ...Steve Austin... after my uncle.
	Jenn: Is that a man or a woman? Rachel: He’s fucked up. Julia: Nice rack. Alice: groan Jenn: What strikes me as strange is not the breasts or anything... Julia: The fact that he tucks? Jenn: No, it’s the arms and fingers. He looks alien. Rachel: He does look like an alien. Julia: Well, the photo’s been fucked with so that his fingers... Alice (sarcastically): Nah Jenn: You know what it makes me think of? Rachel’s fingers. laughter and groaning Jenn: Just kidding. Rachel: He does have long fingers. Julia: That album’s gotten good reviews. I’ve been tempted to listen to it.
	Jenn: It’s Laura! Yeah! Cool! Alice: You know what? She has that same eye-waste ratio too. Jenn: She does, as Disney characters. We have a song about this... video game. I don’t know if you knew that. Julia: Alice could kick her ass anyway.