Ex-Vivian Girls drummer (and NYC bartender) Frankie Rose recently made the Crystal Stilts an Ex too, starting her own project, the all-girl quintet Frankie Rose & The Outs. Well, almost all-girl: Crystal Stilts guitarist JB Townsend contributes to their forthcoming... CONTINUE READING NEW FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS - "THEE ONLY ONE"»
Posted on October 8, 2009 in , , (2 comments)
Tags: Crystal Stilts | Dum Dum Girls | Flea | Frankie Rose | Vivian Girls
For this year's CMJ party we teamed up with The Believer to bring you an excellent night of music that will begin much earlier than last year's Late Night with Gang Gang Dance et al. The event takes place... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM CMJ OPENING NIGHT LIVE '09»
Posted on October 2, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Cold Cave | Dum Dum Girls | Free Energy | Glasser | Telepathe | The Golden Filter
When posting a demo of ostensible Jail La La track "Over The Phone" I referred to Dee Dee, aka Dum Dum Girls, as a "nostalgic one-woman girl-group." It wasn't the first time I've said something to that effect: There's a... CONTINUE READING NEW DUM DUM GIRLS - "LET IT BE ME" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on September 23, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: Dum Dum Girls
Nostalgic one-woman girl-group Dum Dum Girls is pairing previously enjoyed songs -- "Jail La La" and "Baby Don't Go -- on the Sub Pop single in advance of her Jail La La LP. As far as new material, hear a... CONTINUE READING NEW DUM DUM GIRLS - "OVER THE PHONE"»
Posted on September 16, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Dum Dum Girls | Interpol | Julian Plenti
This past weekend was all about the USA, and nothing says America quite like a day full of shitgaze in a graffitied, degenerated yard under some train tracks in Bushwick (or "East Williamsburg," if your real estate agent is shady).... CONTINUE READING WOODSIST/CAPTURED TRACKS FEST @ 979 BROADWAY BACKYARD, BROOKLYN 7/4/09»
Posted on July 6, 2009 in , , (6 comments)
Tags: Beach Fossils | Blank Dogs | Crocodiles | Crystal Stilts | Dum Dum Girls | Ganglians | Kurt Vile | Real Estate | The Beets | The German Measles | Vivian Girls | Woods
When writing on Dum Dum Girls in the past, I've mentioned the Mayfair Set, her best-of-two-worlds collaborative project with the recently unmasked Blank Dogs. It's good stuff and thankfully there's more of it: A six-song Woodsist 12" from the duo... CONTINUE READING NEW MAYFAIR SET - "CEASE TO BE" & "JUNKED"»
Posted on May 21, 2009 in (3 comments)
Tags: Blank Dogs | Dum Dum Girls | The Mayfair Set
When we posted Dum Dum Girls' duet with Crocodiles' Brandon Welchez, we mentioned that these "Dum Dum Girls" are actually the L.A. project of one girl. True. What's unclear is if her name really is "Dee Dee" or if she's... CONTINUE READING NEW DUM DUM GIRLS - "IT ONLY TAKES ONE NITE" »
Posted on March 24, 2009 in (3 comments)
Tags: Dum Dum Girls | Peter Bjorn And John | Sufjan Stevens
For those of you who've given up on the Vivian Girls because of that bathtub interview, here's a chance to wipe the slate clean and find some all-Girls noise-pop by someone from another coast. We've been enjoying L.A.'s Dum Dum... CONTINUE READING NEW DUM DUM GIRLS VIDEOS - "CATHOLICKED" & "BLANK GIRL"»
Posted on March 5, 2009 in , (18 comments)
Tags: Blank Dogs | Crocodiles | Dum Dum Girls | Micachu And The Shapes | Ryan Adams | The Mayfair Set
