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 »

POSTED March 25, 2009 6:22PM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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 »

POSTED February 19, 2009 7:25PM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , , , , , , ,

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 »

POSTED February 19, 2009 10:20AM IN MP3 / STREAMS TAGS: , , , , , ,

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 »

POSTED November 24, 2008 6:33PM IN MP3 / STREAMS Comments (1) TAGS: , , , ,

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 »

POSTED November 20, 2008 12:30PM IN MP3 / STREAMS TAGS: , , , ,

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 »

POSTED April 4, 2008 10:26AM IN MP3 / STREAMS TAGS: , , ,