VVISIONSS.
It's not that VVISIONSS, the art-rock foursome that formed three years ago, claims to see the future, but they also don't not claim to see the future, either. OK, so it's not the entire band that has this ability, but band leader Ben Van Camp, who studied under Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry) and refers to a theory about kids with scarlet fever à la William S. Burroughs. Confused? Don't be.
"I have this vision, man," is something Van Camp has often said. Hence the band name.
"William S. Burroughs had a theory about kids who had scarlet fever at a really young age. And I just found out about this recently, but I had scarlet fever when I was, like, 3 or 4 or something. It's kind of like an old-fashioned disease," he says. "But William Burroughs had a theory that if you had scarlet fever when you were really little, that made it so you open up a portal that never gets closed. Like your third eye never closes or something."