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The Dwarves

The Dwarves are an American punk band formed in Chicago, Illinois, as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s. They are currently based in San Francisco, California. Formed as a garage punk band, their career subsequently saw them move in a hardcore direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock sound. They have been described as "one of the last true bastions of punk rock ideology in the contemporary musical age". The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in 1984 as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit,Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The ...read more

The Dwarves are an American punk band formed in Chicago, Illinois, as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s. They are currently based in San Francisco, California. Formed as a garage punk band, their career subsequently saw them move in a hardcore direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock sound. They have been described as "one of the last true bastions of punk rock ideology in the contemporary musical age". The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in 1984 as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit,Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The Sonics, and which has been described as part of the Paisley Underground scene. The band became notorious for self-mutilation, on-stage sex, and taking hard drugs, and their live shows would often only last around fifteen minutes, occasionally cut short due to injury caused by spectators. The band's sound began to evolve beyond its early garage roots with their second (nineminute long) LP, Toolin' For A Warm Teabag, which saw the band drifting towards a more truculent punk rock sound, influenced by G. G. Allin. The band released Blood Guts & Pussy on Sub Pop in 1989. By this time the Dwarves had dropped their early psychedelic sensibilities and morphed into a proper hardcore punk band. The Blood Guts & Pussy LP was followed up by EP Lucifer's Crank, released by No.6 Records, as well as another Sub Pop LP, the metal-punk Thank Heaven For Little Girls, both in 1991. In 1993 the band issued a press release stating their guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed had been stabbed to death in Philadelphia. Though this later turned out to be a hoax, the band even went as far as to attach a tribute to the "late" guitarist on their 1993 Sub Pop-released album Sugarfix. SubPop did not respond well to the hoax and summarily dropped the band from its label. The Dwarves reformed in 1997,releasing The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking (described by Adam Bregman of Allmusic as "the beginning of a new Dwarves...one that plays real songs, had a set list,and left the club un bloodied"), and its 2000 followup The Dwarves Come Clean. In the film Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey is seen singing along to Dwarves "Motherfucker", which Dahlia later said he got "tens of thousands of dollars" for. In 2000, the band offered the track "River City" to George W. Bush as his presidential campaign song. In 2004 the band released The Dwarves Must Die, its first LP for the indie label Sympathy for the Record Industry, which featured guest appearances from Dexter Holland (The Offspring), Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age), Nash Kato (Urge Overkill), and voice actor Gary Owens. Dahlia was assaulted by Josh Homme of QOTSA before a Dwarves show in Los Angeles in 2004, which saw Homme placed on summary probation for thirty-six months. In 2009, Blag and HeWhoCannotBeNamed were immortalised as Bobbleheads by Aggronautix « hide

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LPs
Keep It Reel
2024

3
2 Votes
Concept Album
2023

2.5
2 Votes
Take Back The Night
2018

2.7
7 Votes
The Dwarves Invented Rock-N-Roll
2014

3.6
18 Votes
The Dwarves Are Born Again
2011

3.1
12 Votes
The Dwarves Must Die
2004

3.6
19 Votes
Come Clean
2000

3.9
20 Votes
The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking
1997

3.6
38 Votes
Sugarfix
1993

3.9
16 Votes
Thank Heaven for Little Girls
1992

3.7
18 Votes
Blood, Guts, and Pussy
1990

3.8
76 Votes
Horror Stories
1986

3.1
12 Votes
EPs
Gentleman Blag
2015

3.5
2 Votes
Drug Store
1990

4
1 Votes
Toolin' for a Warm Teabag
1988

3.6
4 Votes
Compilations
How to Win Friends and Influence People
2001

3.2
8 Votes

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