From Eric:

Anyone who knows me knows of my unhealthy obsession. KISS was the band that made me want to play the drums. They are singlehandedly responsible for getting me into rock n' roll. That is powerful stuff. Now, after almost 20 years of playing in bands, I have my first real opportunity to open for my childhood heroes (this Thursday at the Sprint Center in KC)!

Man, can you believe September is already here??  I guess that's what happens when you keep yourself so damn busy all year.  It may not sound like much, but getting two EPs out in one year (with absolutely no help from a label) was pretty damn tough.  I almost felt like I was back in school a few times, I felt so busy.  It soon got to the point where one thing I had to do eventually overlapped onto another thing...where DOES the time go?  Cleveland?

Our goal has still not been completely met, though--the icing on the cake is still to come!  By that, I of course mean our second full-length album, Out of Earshot.  Fortunately, our homies over at Now Spinning Records will be helping us kick out that jam.  On the unfortunate side, a full-length is waaaay harder to polish off than an EP (yes, even two EPs!), and there is a chance we just may not have enough time to get the album out by the end of October.  Releasing it any time after that would be like when that Weird Al movie UHF premiered the same weekend as Batman--everyone's going to be buying I-Phones and I-Pods for their kids, and grandkids, and grannies, and friends, and dogs for that matter.  So please, don't hate us if OOE doesn't make it out in '09--if it doesn't, just know that we tried our best; and hell, we've spent over 3 years on this damn thing already, so we wanna do it right!

In this last paragraph, I want to do two things:

1) THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO VOTED FOR US IN THE 2009 PITCH MUSIC AWARDS, making us KC's Best Pop Band for the second straight year!

2) Let all of you and everyone else know about the 2009 Indie of the Year contest at www.musicemissions.com, which The Dead Girls are now officially a part of!  To cast your vote for us, please click here: http://www.musicemissions.com/indieoftheyear/vote.php

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution!

Cheers,
Cameron 

Hey everyone,




So, we released "Te Quiero"--the middle of our 2009 musical trilogy--on Cinco de Mayo, and so far it's been getting some rave reviews.  For instance, both the PITCH and KANSAS CITY STAR have had some very positive things to say.  The latter is an announcement for our CD release at the Brick this Friday, May 15th, and was published in todays print edition as well.  Sweet!




Don't forget, you can currently hear all the original songs from "The Hair Trigger EP" and "Te Quiero" right here on our myspace page, as well as two tracks from the first album--ten songs in all!




Hope to see you at the Brick this Friday!




Cheers,
Cameron

What up kids, Cameron of The Dead Girls here.  I am not currently in school, but 2009 has already been busy enough to make the time fly as if I was. 
February saw the release of our fist EP of the year, The Hair Trigger EP.  This EP features one song from our forthcoming sophomore full-length, Out of Earshot, as well as a few other demos and studio outtakes we had been working on up to that point. 
On Cinco de Mayo, 2009, we will release EP #2 of the year, Te Quiero.  This EP will follow the exact same format--one song (again, the title track) which will be included on Out of Earshot, and five other demos/studio outtakes.  The Spanish theme is no accident--aside from our overall love and appreciation for European culture, the song "Te Quiero" is JoJo's ode to his Spanish girlfriend, Irene (pronouced Ear-En-Ay).  Normally that would be squeamishly cheesey, but Irene herself is pretty freakin' cool, so we don't mind participating in the tribute. 
The other songs included on the EP are very cool, as well.  We like them because, aside from the fact that they are way more stylistically varied than any collection we have released as of yet, they represent The Dead Girls' further pursuit of taking matters into our own hands.  Everything, from the production of the songs to the artwork, was done all or mostly by the band members.  Of course, I can't forget to mention the super-sweet engineering and production skills of Chris Cosgrove, the 5th Dead Girl.  However, 3 of these songs were recorded entirely at home (lovingly called Low Bottom Labs), just like the last EP.   
On Cinco de Mayo (Tuesday, May 5th), the Dead Girls will have a CD release extravaganza at The Replay (946 Mass St in Lawrence).  Our good buddies the ACBs will be kicking things off.  Things will be starting a tad earlier than normal--probably right around 10pm--since it's during the week, but when we recieved the opportunity to actually have this thing on Cinco de Mayo, we couldn't pass it up!  Hope to see you there...
 
Cheers,
Cameron

That's right, kids:
Our long-awaited interactive website, the deadgirlsproject.com, is finally up and running!  Go there now to see what's up with us and our new record, The Hair Trigger EP; but maybe more importantly, check out some of the basic tracks from our forthcoming full-length Out Of Earshot and help us to create something completely new and awesome.
http://thedeadgirlsproject.com
GO NOW.
Cheers,
Cameron

Hey rockers!
Since we are releasing a new EP TOMORROW, we though it would be fun to go and tell our little friends at Lawrence.com about it all.  They even recorded it for posterity!  Check it out here:
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2009/feb/02/dead-hair-day/
Also: CD Release Show this Saturday, February 7th at Replay Lounge (946 Mass) in Lawrence, KS with the ever-awesome, ever-kickass Fourth of July!
Cheers,
Cameron

That's right folks, it's been a long road to new tunes, but we are OH so close! On Tuesday, Feb 3rd--pretty much three years to the day since we released our first album, "What A Perfect Ending"--we will officially unveil "The Hair Trigger EP". It features six new Dead Girls recordings, one of which will be featured on our second full-length album "Out of Earshot", due out in Fall. It is also only the first of a two EP set, which will be completed on Cinco de Mayo with, fittingly, "The Te Quiero EP". As a label has yet to have the fortune of acquiring us, we will be self-releasing this stuff until further notice. "Hair Trigger" will be available almost anywhere fine recordings are sold in the Lawrence/KC area, as well as in the Manhattan area. In a few weeks, all the songs will be available for purchase on I-Tunes and several other lovely online music stores. Needless to say, we are PUMPED beyond belief to finally have another record out, and we will be supporting it fervently starting very soon! Here are a few examples of this: 2/7/09 at Replay (946 Mass St) in Lawrence with Fourth of July; 10pm, $3. 2/13/09 at Auntie Mae's (616 N 12th St) in Manhattan, KS with The Goodbye Sort; 10pm, $4. 2/21/09 at Czar Bar (1531 Grand) in Kansas City, MO with The Klangs; 10pm. 2/27/09 at The Brick (1727 McGee) in Kansas City, MO with The Sexy Accident; 10pm. Cheers to you all! Sorry about the complete lack of paragraph breaks, but you know Myspace...it blows! Love, Cameron