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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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