THE DWARVES MUST LIVE

September 16th, 2008 at 1:30pm
Gary Suarez

Josh Homme’s favorite band, the ever-defiant and unabashedly offensive Dwarves, needs no introduction to any of you awkward overgrown boys who stood gawking and giggling in the local Sam Goody at their album covers as even more immature adolescents. Fronted by miscreant Blag Dahlia, the group made itself known as much for its brash punk rock tunes as for intentionally, sacrilegiously tasteless artwork that could be considered pornographic to a hapless Palin-esque puritan. After a retrospectively hilarious Beatles-referencing stunt of “killing off” exhibitionism prone guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed, the band was evicted from the unamused Sub Pop and ultimately found a new home a few years later on Epitaph. Despite not having released a new album since 2004, the Dwarves carry on with live assaults for their rabid fans.

The residents of Nevada and John McCain’s Arizona are next on the shitlist, with gigs in Tahoe, Vegas, and Tempe this weekend (Details at Myspace). Also upcoming is a NYC-area gig on Friday, November 7 at Europa in Brooklyn, for which tickets are onsale. (As an aside, Europa has a couple of superawesome autumnal noise rock shows coming up including Young Widows – whose FAN-DABI-DOZI new album Old Wounds hit stores last week – with previously touted Gods And Queens opening, along with a night headlined by Harvey Milk a week later.) I know you wankers missed out on The Meatmen gig there recently, so make it up to me and to yourselves by braving the mean streets of Greenpoint for the sake of the little people.

Still not convinced, miserable ingrates? Well then wrap your head around the generous selection of free MP3s available here. I heartily recommend “FEFU” off their last album.

-GS