on September 10, 2001, and several of the songs foreshadowed 9/11 including the phrase "homeland security" and the chorus "everything's falling down" from the song "Fall." After some rearrangement, the songs were revealed to depict a story about a girl who realized the hypocrisy of her town, her family, and herself. Tacoma Ballet was broken into two discs of sixteen songs each. The first was labeled What is the Answer? and the second one was named What is the Question? (inspired by the final words of Gertrude Stein). The album gained critical praise from Rolling Stone and Magnet. Tacoma Ballet hit #8 most added on the College Music Journal charts in July 2002. In 2008 Lucid Nation headlined RockNRead at the VirginMega on Hollywood Boulevard where they covered a protest song written by Alex Maranjian called "Bring My Brothers Home". 2010s In 2011 Rookie included Lucid Nation in "Girl Germs", its list of favorite riot grrrl songs. In Jan. 2015 Rookie included Lucid Nation in its list "Staying Power: Music that endures." In February 2017 the band released a live video of the cover song "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" by Johnny Thunders, in honor of Tia Sprocket, drummer on the band's DNA and Suburban Legends records, who had recently died. In early 2018 Lucid Nation released Ecosteria, an 18-song record, on Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora Radio, and Slacker Radio. Reviews Rolling Stone wrote "If Spivey sounds spacey, she's not. Her songs range from aggressive, screaming punk to beautifully melodic rhythm and blues, the very definition of garage rock. Like Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill -- Lucid Nation has opened for both -- her band's music is raw, poetic, sloppy and infectious...simply bare-bones, kick-ass rock and roll." Mario Mesquita Borges of Allmusic wrote "Lucid Nation's creations expose fierce streams of experimentalism within the rock genre by captioning a singular set of conceptual alternative pop/rock style, somehow following a similar trail as the one unclosed by Sonic Youth... " Discography Albums The Stillness of Over, 1997. American Stonehenge, 1998. DNA, 1999. Suburban Legends, 2000. Tribeca Shockwave, 2001, unreleased. Nonpoetic Rain: Live on KXLU, 2001. Tacoma Ballet, 2002. Public Domain, 2006. Ecosteria, 2018. Last of the Teens, 2019. Ghosts of Laurel Canyon, 2020. Compilations Public Domain: The Best of Lucid Nation, 2006. FUBAR, single, 2005, included in this compilation. Filmography Films The Gits, 2005. Associate Producers.