The 1996 album On Avery Island by the band Neutral Milk Hotel refers to this location. Avery Island is the home of the McIlhenny Company headquarters (manufacturers of Tabasco sauce). Jeff Mangum and several members of the Elephant 6 collective went to high school in Ruston, Louisiana.

Avery Island is an example of a salt dome island, a type of structural dome formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir (a type of intrusion). Even though this island is no longer surrounded by ocean, it is currently surrounded by bayou...so now you know.

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The Pet Sounds Recording Studio (sometimes called Pet Sounds Studio or Pet Sounds, after the Beach Boys' album of the same name) was a recording studio orginally located Denver, Colorado. Founded by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo and Jim McIntyre of Von Hemmling, several Elephant 6 albums were recorded in the studio, including the critically acclaimed Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and several The Apples in Stereo albums.

Pet Sounds Studio is sometimes referred to as The Elephant 6 Recording Company in the liner notes of albums from bands within the Elephant 6 collective (a group of like-minded musicians creating independent music). Several of the musicians are also involved with the Orange Twin Records label.

The house that the studio was located in was demolished in 1999.

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Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day attended Pinole Valley High School and also performed on campus.

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Barrington Hall was a legendary bastion of radical students near the Berkely campus. It became synonymous with political activisim, unorthodox lifestyles, drug use, and supporting music.

In the eighties, "Wine Dinners" were repeatedly hosted where punch was spiked with LSD. The name of the Primus album Tales From the Punch Bowl stems from these parties.

Barrington Hall served as a locus for Bay Area punk rock, with Operation Ivy, the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and hundreds of others playing the location.

After many successful defenses, Barrington Hall was forced to close in 1990. The USCA president stated "Barrington has a larger-than-life reputation. All across the continent, people know it as a drug den and anarchist household."

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In May of 1989, Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy had purchased some beer over on Telegraph Ave and walked to the volleyball courts at this intersection. As they sat, they agreed to end the band.

As Tim Armstrong recollected: "Me and him talked about how the band wasn’t really what it was when it started. It was like a mutual thing. That’s one thing that’s not usually told, it wasn’t like he quit, it was like, ‘Yeah, we’re not really into it anymore.’”

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