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City: CHAPEL HILL
State: North Carolina
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/23/2006

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 

Current mood:  exotic

We Spider Bags are going on the road as the backing band for the great and powerful John Wesley Coleman, guitar player for the Austin Texas fuck all psychedelic super group the Golden Boys. 
Wes has a new solo record coming out on Certified PR records.  
We're doing those first few dates ( Austin, New Orleans, Memphis, St. Petersburg, Atlanta) only as the John Wesely Coleman band and then picking up our erstwhile drummer Rock Forbes in Chapel Hill for some Spider Bags/John Wesely Coleman double bills, in Chapel Hill at the Nightlight thursday Dec 10th, and in New York for two nights, at the Bruaer House friday Dec 11th and Don Pedro's on the 12th. 
We'll have Spider Bags records with us for that first half of the trip, and I'm sure we'll end up doing a few of our songs.

Moral turpitude to follow. 

12:16 AM 
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 
Thank you Pithchfork!

"Everyone's heart gets broken some time/ Just not like mine." If North Carolina (via New Jersey) drunk-rockers Spider Bags ever want to sell bumper stickers at their merch table, let this line-- taken from the teary, beery ballad "Lord Please"-- be the slogan. It's a lyric that perfectly sums up the band's place in a venerable tradition of country-rock hurtin' songs and their singular status within it.Sure, you've heard bands like Spider Bags before; on first contact, you'd swear they were some half-remembered mid-1990s band that got lost in the college-radio shuffle among the Silver Jews, the Grifters, and Ass Ponys. But it's been an awful long time since you've heard a band pull off this sort of southern-fried slop-pop with such charm, craftiness, and self-deprecating wit. On their second album,Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World, Spider Bags re-imagine Neil Young'sTonight's the Night as a Saturday-night party album: They're bleary eyed and wobbly kneed, but they're going down on swinging (or, at least, swigging).Spider Bags' ragged but resilient spirit has made them heroes to Titus Andronicus, who have covered the Bags' signature song "Waking Up Drunk", though Bags don't share their New Jersey successors' penchant for burn-it-down drama. But the songs on Goodbye Cruel World twist and turn more than you'd expect from a country-rock album, riffing on standard verse-chorus-verse templates before introducing an even more rewarding, final-act change-up, whether it's the poignant pedal-steeled finale to the front-porch picker "Swimmer on a String" or the giddy stream of "na na na na na"s appended to the early-Replacements trash-pop of "Dishrag". Even the typical juke-joint rave-up "Long White Desert Rose" upends the formula, revealing its chorus only during a sustained build-up in the final 90 seconds, and sending it aloft on a bed of "ooh ooh ooh" backing harmonies.Though Spider Bags have just two albums and a handful of 7"s to the their name so far, the band's MySpace bio is quick to point out that its members have been playing in bands for 15 years, and Cruel World's best songs ruminate on their refusal to grow up, albeit with a wisdom and clarity that you acquire only in your mid-30s: on the corroded jangle-pop of "Hey Delinquents", frontman Dan McGee plays an advisory big-brother role to a younger generation of misfits, while "Que Viva El Rocanroll" is a sloshed, shoulder-to-shoulder last-call waltz for those who really should know better than to stay out past 3 a.m. on a weeknight. And then there's the seven-minute colossus "Trouble", on which McGee owns up to a lifetime of deviancy before his mantric chorus line yields to a surprisingly nasty bout of wah-wah-pedal abuse. If there's a problem with Cruel World, it's that it never regains its proper footing after this monster jam; for an album that routinely inspires a certain raised-fist perseverance, the somber, Califoned pastorale "Here Now" is a bit of a bummer note to go out on. Sure, that album title sets you up for life's great letdowns, but Spider Bags' greatest attribute is making you believe you can rise above them.— Stuart Berman, November 4, 2009

12:11 AM 
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 

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The nice people at Blurt reviewed our new record:

Chapel Hill's Spider Bags are the musical cousins of The Dexateens and the Drive-By Truckers. Bands that have taken Southern rock and turned it on its ear. The SB's grind in some punk and blues to the genre to reformulate a seriously, deliriously, intoxicating concoction. Dan McGee and his five piece band of drunken reprobates are back with their sophomore release and offer up a more mature, better produced and slightly more subdued follow-up to their acclaimed Celebration of Hunger album from 2007. The original version of this album, which was tentatively titled Midnight Moving Skies, contained 13 tunes. With the final mix, winnowing out some chaff and measuring songs lengths, Dan told me he thought they wound up with the perfect end result with these 11 songs. Goodbye is in many ways superior, and yet in some ways not, because this ripening of musical style from Celebrationis quite conspicuous. It's not as "sloppy" and wild, for one thing. It really is like saying goodbye to the Bags you thought you knew and loved, yet excited by their evolving to a new plane. Their playing and unique use of instruments from song to song really grabs your attention. A slower number, "Hammer and Nails" sweeps you away with its plunking banjo and scratchy fiddle. You want wild, there's the galloping, country punk of "Nowhere Nobody Nothing" and "Dishrags"' slow beginning belies the snotty, head-bobbing punk anthem that launches about one minute in. McGee is no slouch with lyrics either, throwing out serious life observances twisted with his wry and irreverent wit. Goodbye grows on you with just a couple of listens and you quickly realize this is an evolution that you can embrace. They also recently released a single, "Teenage Eyes" b/w "Eileen" on Odessa Records and will release the "Dog In The Snow" 7" this winter.  Standout Tracks: "Hammer and Nails," "Hey Delinquents," "Dishrag" BARRY ST. VITUS
Thank you Blurt!  Thank you Barry! 

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Saturday, March 24, 2007 
if you want a t-shirt, drop us an email. we'll send you a t-shirt and a cd of some bizarre recordings for a small fee. thanks
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