Sparks Are Getting Their 'Revenge' on America

The choice by Sparks to make the first Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville, N.C., the second stop of their Revenge of Two Hands One Mouth tour was typical of their career -- simultaneously incongruous yet perfect for their eccentric musical vision. Sparks is Ron and Russell Mael, the Angelino brothers who for five decades have recorded as an exuberant pop group and art-rock conceptualists. With a new boxed-set retrospective just out -- New Music for Amnesiacs, containing four dis...