Tagged: Blank Dogs
The Singles Collection – The Mayfair Set, The Box Elders, Kim Phuc
This week’s Singles Collection is awash in the boozy afterglow of South by Southwest, a festival we survived for the 10th year running… but just barely. Soap-boxing aside, all of the bands featured this week were part of SxSW in one way or another (ie – lots of unofficial shows) and are well-deserving of your listening time and hard-earned stimulus cash. read more »
The Tripwire Showcase And The Rest Of The Levi's®/FADER Fort Lineup
We know you’ve all been planning your TX days and nights without worrying about the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, because you already knew that it’s all day, every day from Wednesday, March 18 through Saturday, March 21. And we know you already had planned to be there regardless, you were just waiting to hear where it is and who would be there. Well, now you know. read more »
New Music Thursdays – Let's Wrestle
In honor of last night’s BRIT awards, we’ve gone all U.K., all the time with this week’s New Music Thursday picks. Up now is a sloppy little garage-pop trio from London we’ve been following called Let’s Wrestle who might just be headed to a town (or an Austin music festival) near you soon. read more »
Freeload: A Gang of Dum Dum Girls
NYC’s Blank Dogs, who we recently featured in the magazine, teamed up with LA’s Dum Dum Girls, who we’ve recently become enamored with, to collaborate as The Mayfair Set. Gorilla Vs. Bear has two songs … read more »
Audio: Blank Dogs, “The Other Way”
Back in 2001, when underground rappers Cannibal Ox put out The Cold Vein, every critic used the word “soundscapes” to talk about their music. It happened so much that we overdosed on the word as … read more »
Freeload: Blank Dogs, “Red World”
During a recent late night music epiphany session, we realized that Blank Dogs could be the fuzzed out Joy Division-referencing version of Lil Wayne. Like Wayne, dude puts most of his music out for free … read more »
Freeload: Blank Dogs, On Two Sides
Blank Dogs are basically making pop songs despite the fact that the lyrics are obscured and distorted almost beyond the point of recognition. Sometimes sounding like Cure home demos or lo-fi New Order, the band … read more »
