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Hailing from Dallas, Texas, the four members of Chomsky enjoy being an anomaly in the music scene: Computer geeks that play in a rock band. Named for an East Coast intellectual, but from a place known more for mud flaps and horned frogs than linguistics or political activism. It’s this off-kilter sensibility that permeated Chomsky’s first two albums, “A Few Possible Selections for the Soundtrack of Your Life,” and, “Onward Quirky Soldiers.” Chomsky’s secret heart beats with 80s blood. Music made with drums and wires, blood and chocolate. Don’t, however, get the wrong idea. Their influences may be vinyl, but...

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, which challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also affected the philosophy of language and mind....