Patrick Watson's Piñata Shop-Rocking, Musical Mad Science

Patrick Watson is a musical mad scientist." So begins the California-born, Montreal-based musician's official bio, which I would normally dismiss out of hand as some record company-generated hype. But I've seen the seen the future of musical mad scientists and his name is Patrick Watson. Strangely enough, that's also the name of his band, although more recently they've been called Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms. The latter part of that moniker is also the title of the combo's recently released album.Watson and his bandmates-percussionist Robbie Kruster, guitarist Mishka Stein, and multi-instrumentalist Simon Angell--have been known to turn making their albums into musical adventures. With that in mind, my friends over at Yahoo! Music thought it would be a good idea to take the musical mad scientists out of their laboratory and stick them an unfamiliar environment. Check out what happens when Watson and company were transported to a piñata shop in downtown Los Angeles and set free to experiment with a bowed saw, acoustic and electric guitars, a megaphone backpack contraption, and a bin full of beans in this performance of "Hearts In The Park," a bonus track from Wooden Arms.