Poor But Sexy played its first show in May 2008, put out a self-titled debut EP in early 2009 and two weeks ago released their first full-length album, coined Let's Move In Together . The group is comprised of five of DC's post-punk notables. Singer David Brown and bassist Brandon Kalber met playing in the punk-funk band Travis Morrison Hellfighters. Guitarist and producer Jason Caddell brought the noise for 10 years as the guitarist [...]
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This song "Hotter Than A Poptart" from Poor But Sexy is all kinds of cool. It totally belongs in the 70s/80s with it's soul inspired r&b influences. The band features Jason Caddell, guitarist of Dismemberment Plan. "Hotter Than A Poptart" is pretty hard to dislike. Awesome title aside, this music is soothing to the soul. You're going to want to download this immediately. [mp3]: Poor But Sexy - Hotter Than A Poptart It's taken from their debut album, Let's Move In Together . The band is self releasing the album [...]
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Poor But Sexy is made up of five longtime members of the Washington, D.C., post-punk scene: singer David Brown and bassist Brandon Kalber (both of Travis Morrison Hellfighters), guitarist Jason Caddell (Dismemberment Plan), keyboardist David Durst (Anti-Social Music) and drummer Bruce Falconer (an investigative reporter who also blogs about beer). PBS will self-release its debut [...]
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Poor But Sexy From: Washington, United States How can anyone resist a band who look like Asexuals Anonymous call themselves Poor But Sexy and have a song called Hotter Than A Poptart ? Then they go and make it sound like Prince on Viagra with someone's tongue in his cheek. Irresistible. Go [...]
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From the inbox: Washington D.C.'s Poor But Sexy play Webster Hall on January 29th. Their full-length Let's Move In Together drops on February 15th. The band is made up of former members of The Dismemberment Plan and Travis Morrison Hellfighters and they've got a free flowing acid-jazz meets yacht rock kind of philosophy that'll appeal to fans of Francis and the Lights and Grovesnor . Poor [...]
"Hotter Than A Poptart" - Poor But Sexy Everything about this is goofy. From the band name, to the song name, to the song itself…all silly. But there are times (most times, in life…only sometimes in music) when silly works. In this case, silly is working for me. I'm feeling a bit of retro-funk in this song. They're busting out some soul. Not quite to the extent of Fitz & The Tantrums , but I can still feel it. I'm looking forward to hearing more from this crew. They [...]
DOWNLOAD : Poor But Sexy - "Hotter Than A Poptart" DOWNLOAD : Poor But Sexy - "Cherry Delicious" Washington DC's Poor But Sexy (PBS) is the latest project from five veterans of the DC post-punk scene. Singer David Brown and bassist Brandon Kalber met playing in the punk-funk band Travis Morrison Hellfighters. Guitarist and producer Jason Caddell brought the noise for 10 years as the guitarist in the Dismemberment Plan, a DC group that earned an international cult following for incorporating samples [...]
Like it or not, Poor But Sexy is Steely Dan for the Internet generation. Remember how you felt when your father belted out Reelin' In The Years or Do It Again in front of your buds and pards on the way to soccer practice? Well, thanks to this unlikely Washington DC's quintet, one day in the future you might be able to embarrass the hell out of your kids in similar fashion by applying your vocal stylings to Hotter Than A Poptart . I call Poor But [...]
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