Brian Beninghove

Beninghove's Hangmen: Pineapples and Ashtrays

by James Nadal
May 8, 2016

Picture an imaginary drive-in theater at the edge of a cliff. The movie is an assortment of grainy black and white vignettes of spaghetti westerns, furtive foreigners smoking, and retro surfing footage. The soundtrack is Pineapples and Ashtrays, performed by Beninghove's Hangmen. These guys play what they call 'creeptastic surf noir,' which defies further definition, but makes interesting listening. The man behind this eccentricity is Bryan Beninghove, a versatile multi-instrumentalist, who is admittedly out to have fun while ...