The Shins’ Marty Crandall Proves that Even the Artsy can get in on Domestic Abuse

By Pete Kotz on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 4:45 pm

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The Shins’ Marty Crandall with longtime sweetheart and supermodel Elyse Sewell, presumably before their Sacramento arrrest

If you thought that domestic violence was a pastime of coked up defense lawyers and drunk bow hunters, think again. Earlier this month, The Shins’ Marty Crandall proved that arty hipsters can get down and dirty with the best of them. The only difference is that they blog about it on Live Journal. On January 4, Crandall and his girlfriend of seven years, Elyse Sewell, the edgy egghead who appeared on the first season of America’s Next Top Model, ended up in the custody of Sacramento County police after the two got into a drunken scuffle in their hotel room...