I haven't heard anyone talking about this band on the board, at least not that I can recall... which is a god damn shame! This band is straight-up fucking rad. Al Johnson's raspy-as-fuck vocals, Mark Shippy ("high guitar") and Todd Rittmann (low guitar)'s dual anti-melodic rock 'n' roll deconstructionist guitars, and the steadily unsteady, and even at times bordering on jungle-style drumming and general 'percussing' from Pat Samson.
They can easily be compared to Beefheart, but this only goes so far. No band I can think of sounds anything close to what U.S. Maple sound like, (find out for yrself!) which I suppose was their purpose.
Check them out, ferchrissakes!
http://www.myspace.com/toomuchmilkandhoney