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Records: New Dwarves this summer: The Dwarves Invented Rock N Roll
News — April 6, 2014
The Dwarves will release a new LP, The Dwarves Invented Rock N Roll this July on Recess Records. In addition, they will release another item, the Trailer Trash 7" in May, also on Recess, and additional 7"s on Fat Wreck and Burger in the coming months. The band released …
Bands: New Dwarves EP and LP plans
News — May 30, 2017
The Dwarves have announced a couple of new releases. First, the band will release the 5-song EP Julio on Riotstyle, with a full-length release scheduled for 2018. The next LP will be titled The Dwarves Take Back the Night and will be issued by Greedy/Burger Records next February. …
Tours: Me First and The Dwarves
News — August 18, 2024
Me Frist and the Gimme Gimmes and the Dwarves have schedule a tour of Australia, running Oct. 30-Nov. 13. The punk rock cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes released Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceañera! earlier this year. The Dwarves recently released a new EP, Keep It Real. …
Tours: Dwarves in Europe + UK
News — June 15, 2024
The Dwarves, who just announced Keep it Real, and also released Concept Album in late 2023, continue a steady tour schedule, heading to Europe in July and August. The band will play in Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Italy, UK, and more. Read our interview with frontman Blag Dahlia from …
Records: New Dwarves songs
News — June 4, 2024
Following last year's full-length album Concept Album, The Dwarves will release a new mini LP this Friday, June 7 called Keep It Reel. The new mini album features seven songs, all previously unreleased, plus two remixes and "one snappy number" from last year's LP, the band says. …
Records: We finally have a Dwarves Concept Album
News — September 30, 2023
Long-running punk collective, of sorts, The Dwarves return with their first new album in five years. The band will release Concept Album, a 20-song collection, on November 17 via Greedy Media. The album includes vocalist Blag Dahlia and a rotating cast of characters including Josh Freese on drums, …
Bands: Dwarves reissues for your holiday stockings
News — December 3, 2022
Long-time label-hopping punk band the Dwarves have announced a series of remastered vinyl reissues of their albums Blood Guts & Pussy (1990), Thank Heaven For Little Girls (1991), Sugarfix (1993), Come Clean (2000), and Radio Free Dwarves Redux (2000), including new artwork and bonus tracks dependence on the LP. …
Records: Dwarves' How to Win Friends and Influence People repress
News — October 21, 2015
On Nov. 20, Reptilian Records will repress on vinyl and CD the 2001 Dwarves album How To Win Friends and Influence People. The record, out of print for 15 years, includes re-recordings of many of the Sub Pop era songs such as "Drug Store," "Fuck You Up and Get …
Tours: Dwarves/Queers on tour now
News — August 22, 2013
Long-running punk bands The Dwarves and The Queers are joining forcres for an Aug-Sept tour that includes a stop at Tesco Fest in Detroit. Check out the dates and cities below, and The Dwarves' Blah Dahlia's latest SPB column here while you're at it.
One Question Interviews: Dwarves
Feature — October 16, 2013
Blag Dahlia (Dwarves)SPB: How do you choose your album art? Dahlia: Well, SPB, I could say that we didn’t choose the art, it choose us. Then again, that would be bullshit. Our most famous cover is still the Blood, Guts & Pussy LP. The idea was mine, …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Dwarves
Feature — September 17, 2019
Blag Dahlia (Dwarves – vocals) SPB: What is the most important vocal element when doing sound check for a Dwarves show? Blag Dahlia: A sound man who isn’t profoundly retarded. They do exist, but to find them you have to travel far and wide sorting through countless buffoons …
Interviews: Dwarves
Feature — November 15, 2023
The secret is now out: Blag Dahlia makes a mean omlette! A really mean omlette. Over breakfast, I had the opportunity to speak to Blag about the recent Dwarves LP, his alter ego Ralph Champagne, cancel culture, the music business, musical influences and spatterings of random thoughts. Put your order …
Records: (The Dwarves') Blag Dahlia's Introducing Ralph Champagne
News — September 21, 2022
Blag Dahlia is back with a new project, titled Blag Dahlia's Introducing Ralph Champagne, an outlaw country, Americana-tinged crooner project taken up during pandemic downtime. The album is available on digital platforms now, and will release on LP on Oct. 21 (GREEDY Media). Additionally, the Dwarves frontman …Tours: Dwarves announce 25th Anniversary Tour
News — June 14, 2011
On the heels of a new record, The Dwarves Are Born Again (see SPB's review here), long-running agitpunks The Dwarves have announced a US tour to celebrate their 25th anniversary, including a run with Nashville Pussy. The band is currently in Europe. For dates, see below.
The Dwarves – Born Again
Review — June 13, 2011
Back in the pre-internet era I came across a blurb in some metal magazine I read in my adolescent years—I’m guessing it was Rip. In that blurb it mentioned a “real punk” band called the Dwarves, who had just been kicked off the trendy Sub Pop for feigning the death …
The Dwarves – Younger & Even Better Looking
Review — January 28, 2014
Age makes fools of us all. First it was In Utero releasing all of my hard-found rarities on a single disc, and now comes The Dwarves Are Younger & Even Better Looking a new double-gatefold LP package that combines the group’s 1997 record Young & Good Looking (record …
The Dwarves – Invented Rock & Roll
Review — September 15, 2014
I won’t say anything as hyperbolic as that the Dwarves invented rock ‘n’ roll, but I’ll still give them another borderline statement that fits on a press sheet: the 2014 Dwarves are a supergroup—not a supergroup side project of glossy mag pin-ups, but a supergroup that is honestly comprised of, …
The Dwarves – Gentleman Blag
Review — March 16, 2015
I know what you’re thinking? Why has it already been five months without a new Dwarves release? Never fear, the long-running goodtime smutlovers are back, this time with a 4-song EP on Fat Wreck Chords. Gentleman Blag pulls its title track from their latest, The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll …
The Dwarves – Take Back the Night
Review — January 29, 2018
Take Back The Night isn’t one of those experiment Dwarves records, like the industrio-tinge of Come Clean. On their latest offering, the long-running band alternates styles consistently between their unique and twisted take on bubblegum pop-punk and screaming, single-vocalist hardcore. For the most part, the hardcore songs are fronted …
