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Sunday, April 26, 2009 

SXSW - Lamar Blvd. Bridge (3am)

Dirt Dress—With amps hooked up to a standard car battery (via a converter), they jammed three intense songs that I don’t remember much because I was still trying to wrap my head around the fact that they were playing an impromptu show under a fucking bridge.

AM [Alma Mater]—First battery died during their second song, but you can’t argue with a chick drummer that loves American Apparel and an album pressed on cassette tape like it was 1995 again!

Audacity—I have a weak spot for North Orange County punk (with a touch of Thee Makeout Party) from kids barely out of high school who love alcohol. If I had a little brother, I hope he’d be in Audacity.


http://fakebadtaste.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/homeee/



SILVERLAKE LOUNGE LOUDVINE REVIEW

Over the past decade, indie music’s seen some serious bloat. Gone (thankfully?) are the power trios that marked 90s alt rock. In their place, we have the 5, 6, 7 + piece mini-orchestra (no hard feelings, Sufjan). It’s hard to sound bad with that many layers in a song; it’s also increasingly harder to sound original. These days I’m more impressed by groups that get a lot of mileage out of the 1-2 punch of treble and bass. Last night at the Silverlake Lounge, Dirt Dress did just that.

Recalling those power trios (but with less cheese), Dirt Dress barely occupied the stage with their basic line up. Over the first couple songs, the reverb-drenched guitar and sung-spoken vocals seemed to hint at territory recently traversed by the Cold War Kids. But ironically, the singer, more than anyone else, managed to keep the songs from sounding imitative. His soft melodies (also awash in ‘verb), which were sometimes at odds with the rowdyness of the music, gave the band its signature.

As the set moved along, the CWK comparison quickly dissipated, and I realized that Dirt Dress really doesn’t sound like, well, anyone. Their formula goes something like this: alternating bursts of chunky, spikey guitar, and a rhythm section that reminded me of being on a boat. With busy bass lines and rhythms that sometimes changed within a single song, I felt like I was being lulled back and forth. Their stage presence was pretty low-key, and they kept the set short and sweet. It ended just as I felt a conclusion coming on, which was fitting for a band who is decidedly anti-bloat.



AT MR. T'S BOWL
Los Angeles is a tough city, and Highland Park is even tougher. This was one of those nights when the venue itself (the venerable dive bar Mr. T’s Bowl) felt like a dreary signifier of LA’s gradual return to charred sand and chaparral. Mistreated by the over-zealous bouncer (“What you got in that bag?” “…A guitar”) and vibed out by a blonde bartender who looked straight out of Day of the Locust and sold water for $2.50 a bottle, the bands played to each other. “This is our last Sunday for shows,” the graying booker of the club remarked.

A good band plays to the room. Dirt Dress is quite capable of hypnotizing a willing crowd, but they are also able to provide the soundtrack to a night that feels like the end of world. Woozy, stumbling guitars give way to squalls of feedback; the rhythm section feels satisfyingly (and purposefully) sloppy. Live, “Go To Sleep” has an otherworldly, almost terrifying quality to it. Noah, singer, chants the line with a sort of detached fervor. Over and over he repeats the words, as if he were trying to coax a lover to sleep, though the whole town’s ablaze.

If you happen to live down south, check them out at Echo Curio, November 8, or at the nebulous “GUERRILLA FEST,” proudly displayed on their myspace and supposedly happening at “different locations throughout LA” this Saturday, Oct. 11. Should be good, if you can find it.

Dirt Dress has several releases: a tape you can get at their shows or probably from their label, papermade (http://www.papermadeorg.org/readlisten), and a sort of digital mini-LP available at cokemachineglow (http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/3564/dirtdress-themesongs-2008). Both are excellent. They also have a bunch of stuff on their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dirtdress

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http://bigstates.blogspot.com/2008/10/dirt-dress.html


JULIAN CASABLANCAS + DIRT DRESS + HAPPY HOLLOWS @ SPACELAND AND AMANDA JO WILLIAMS + MORE @ SILVERLAKE LOUNGE



Dirt Drss, a trio of indie rockers, started the evening off by playing on a stage too small to contain their large sound. The group played in an idiosyncratic style. Jose the bass player, for example, would play riffs and then chord changes while Noah the guitarist would strum a single chord—on an electric twelve string no less—until the bass was ready to return. Random yet very unique. Also in attendance was the band’s label Paper Made, selling the group’s three-part cassette series Perdido en la Suciedad. (Dirt Dress will be playing November 19th at the Echo Curio.)


http://larecord.com/revs/2009/11/11/julian-casablancas-dirt-dress-happy-hollows-spaceland-and-amanda-jo-williams-more-silverlake-lounge/

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you can hear em as soon as we finnish makin em sound real perdy like.
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DIRT DRESS
myspace.com/dirtdress
Recommended track: "Go to Sleep"
"Go to Sleep" sounds like a hybrid of the Beatles' "I'm So Tired" and Santo and Johnny's "Sleepwalk." On the whole, they're the rare L.A. band looking to traditional blues for inspiration, both in acoustic and electric formats.
Keeping with the method of their label, Papermade, they are soon expected to have a collection out on cassette for distribution at shows called Theme Songs. Look out for them at venues like the Smell and Pehrspace and expect them to keep close to label mates A.M. (see below).

A.M.
myspace.com/theeam
Recommended track: "Message to Her"
A.M. is a heavy garage punk band, young and forceful with carefree style. Drummer Karin never bothered with a full drum kit, instead making due with a pedal-free bass drum and small smattering of cymbals; words are shouted rather than sung, riffs are dissonant and brutally exerted.
But A.M. is likely best known for the clip they generously received in the L.A. Times this August, about the impromptu set they managed outside of the Echo during the Fuck Yeah! Festival, to which they hadn't been invited and from whose sidewalk they were promptly kicked off. You can find cassettes of their album 1998 for $5 on their Web site or off their merch table.
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