“If name-dropped correctly a little literature can go a long way. While trying to absorb the background information for *Down for Whatever*, a collection of run-of-the-mill garage-rock anthems by San Francisco's Vue, I came upon keyboardist Jessica Ann Graves' mention of one of William T. Vollmann's briefer novels, *Whores for Gloria*, in relation to the album's closer, "The Rest". Tantalizingly, s”
