I think Dum Dum Girls is my favorite of all the aughts/early teens girl groups, largely on the strength of Dee Dee's fantastic, Chrissie Hynde-ish alto, but also because of the casual strenghth of the songs she writes. her songs are never showy or fuzzy, there are no weird instrumental touches or off-beat arrangement choices, but they work really well within the punk-slanted-Spector-vaulting category that she shares with the Slumberland roster, all of the ex-Vivian Girls, Best Coast and assorted others. She's maybe my favorite female singer of her generation and getting better all the time -- witness her new EP End of Days, which has been out for a week or two, and features this single, "Lord Knows."
Had kind of an interesting weekend, starting with a really botched attempt to see Divine Fits, winding through an extremely young but rather good "Romeo and Juliet" production and ending now with all hell breaking loose on a work project.
Also, on Saturday, BIll and I had a quick beer to celebrate 22 years of marriage.
So there's that.
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Congratulations! Sorry Divine Fits didn't work out.
Thanks, that'll be you in a quarter century, eh?
The Divine Fits thing was actually kind of funny (and pathetic on my part, but what's new about that?) ...but i'm going to write about it, so I don't want to spoil it.
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