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  • About
    • Milkmen Bio 2017
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    • Milkmen Bio 1982
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  • Silo of Hits
    • 2025 Tunes
    • Vote Them Out 2024
    • Songlab (2018)
    • Songlab Instrumentals
    • Dairy Aire (2000)
    • Spilt Milk (MM Classics 1980-1985)
    • Milk Country
    • The Wholly Milk Trinity
    • RIP Kevin "Chocolate Milk" Jackson
    • Silicon Rebels (Instrumental - 1989)
    • Monk Music (2003)
    • Jock Rock (2003)
    • LK Demos
    • Farm Fresh Dozen
    • Songs for New VG Show
    • Ric Parnell (the exploding drummer) with MM
  • Licensing
  • Dates
  • Contact
  • Pix & Videos
    • 1980s Milkmen pix
    • 1980s Milkmen Pix II
    • 2000 Milkmen pix
    • Recent Milkmen Pix
    • Videos
    • J-50
  • Milk Lore
    • Press
    • Eng Lit Prof reviews Songlab
  • Blog
  • LK Prose
    • Bovine Serenade
    • Naropa
    • LK Writing and Editing Samples
    • Copywriting
    • Dick
    • DC Flashback
    • Pasadena Post
    • Black August
    • Edo Avant Garde
    • Cannabis Commerce in the USA

In 1983, I kicked Ric Parnell out of The Milkmen for passing out at a soldout gig and into immortality as the exploding drummer in This Is Spinal Tap!

Read "The Exploding Drummer and Me"

Welcome

Milkman Lory Kohn has long been attracted to both the earthiness of idyllic dairy farms and the vastness of space (which explains the site's rare dot space URL). Songlab is conceived as his orbiting recording studio. From this unique vantage point, the data he collects and the observations he makes become alchemized into fully realized musical productions. 

To date, 23 tunes have burst forth from the world's first celestial song incubator. The resulting collection is called, not unexpectedly, Songlab. Long-time co-conspirators and a dazzling array of special guest stars have aided and abetted the songsmith's essential mission, beaming impassioned performances from physical locations all over Planet Earth to data collection points in Manitou Springs, Colorado and Taos, New Mexico.

Earth. Space. Milk. That's the cycle of life for the still vibrant dairymen.

The Men of Milk's completely unexpected 2017 resurrection (they'd been filed under "lost in space" since AD 2001) has culminated in a bumper crop of heretofore undiscovered gems which run the gamut from hard rock to bossa nova. These tunes have been meticulously crafted and curated for the aural gratification of old and new fans alike. 

As a music lover, you may be shocked to stumble upon more great songs on the virtually unknown Milkmen's Songlab alone than can be found on many household name bands' greatest hits albums. 

If you're a music supervisor seeking just the right emotive content to elevate your TV show, film, or ad, one or more of Songlab's "many moos" may be just what you're looking for.

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One vibey summer evening in 1986, at the opening of R Lee White’s show at McClaren Markowitz Gallery in Boulder, after some brief flirtation, I got lucky and went home with “Phone Call For You, Sweetie.” 

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"I Should've Stayed at Laurie's" Resurrected!

Three plastic storage bins worth of passé storage media: reel-to-reel mixdown tapes, analog cassettes, VHS home movies. A runaway mixdown and a disappeared DAT tape. Digital dilemmas and divine intervention. Heart-stopping drama and a comedy of errors. A longstanding-quest and…

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