The Dolley Pond

was the front man for popular Southern California indie bands , , , and ... among others. For more than a decade, Swenson's bands shared bills with everyone from the Damned to Stiff Little Fingers to Gun Club to Killing Joke in large and small venues across the western US, playing a rootsy but eclectic mix of indie rock and edgy, punkish Americana. have worked... but when it's all you have at your disposal and you're churning out songs so fast that there's barely time to eat take out from SuperMex, you do what you have to do.