These Best Bets aim to stimulate a variety of auditory cortexes. Tonight: Bone Crusher/Fuck Yeah Its Friday w/ DJ 2Live Cruz at the Riot Room Dead Girls/Sons of Great Dane/Sexy Accident at Jackpot Saloon The King Canutes/The Paperclips/Don Nails and the Bad Man/Dollar Fox at the Record Bar The Chaotic Goods/Luddites at the Brick Radio Romantica/The Mad Kings/Hammerlord Halloween Party!… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments [...]
This week: the Dead Girls Local power-pop supergroup the Dead Girls are at the Jackpot this Friday, with Sons of Great Dane and the Sexy Accident on Friday. Doors 9 p.m.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Much-loved local power-pop act the Dead Girls recently recorded a couple of songs and are trying to raise money to press a vinyl 7" via Kickstarter. The A-side is called "She Laughed a Little," and the B-side is a collaboration with Motion City Soundtrack singer/guitarist Justin Pierre.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Since January, Robert Moore's Sonic Spectrum Tribute Series has been chugging along at a nice monthly pace. So far, the list of artists honored by KC musicians has included Bowie, Chrissie Hynde... Continue reading "Ghosty, Minden and the Dead Girls are in for Sonic Spectrum's Beach Boys tribute" >
When Motion City Soundtrack's Justin Pierre came through town to play an in-store at Love Garden and shoot a segment for Scene-Stealers, he also did a little time with Lawrence's the Dead Girls in... Continue reading "MP3: the Dead Girls, "It's All Happening"" >

Chop Shop recording and KC favorites The Republic Tigers embark today, Oct. 6, on a fall tour alongside Yourself And The Air . The mini-trek kicks off in Pittsburgh. The Republic Tigers are currently writing and recording the follow-up to their 2008's Keep Color . The yet-untitled release is slated for spring 2010 release and the band is producing the it themselves in their Kansas City studio. Tour Dates: Oct. 6 - Brillobox / Pittsburgh, PA Oct. [...]

Tonight at midnight ONLY, the LA premiere of DEAD GIRL will be shown at Nuart Theater in West Hollywood. We got to work on some of the music selection for the film so we got the treat of watching this film through all the various stages and I can't wait to see the final. Dead Girl will stay with you for a long time. It's like staring into the sun for too long, it will be there with you, tracers, always. When I first saw it I wasn't [...]

Dead Girl is a flick that centers on two young guys who discover a woman in an abandoned asylum and discover that she's "undead." Then they decide to exploit her. HOORAY! Jenny Spain, who plays the titular dead girl, doesn't have a single line of dialogue in the film but it is her performance that has drawn the most acclaim. Related posts: Drop Dead Fred Remake with Russell Brand [...]
The Dead Girls, The Hair Trigger EP (self-released) It seems Lawrence's the Dead Girls (formerly Dead Girls Ruin Everything) have already taken Obama's message of change to heart. Most obvious, of co... Continue reading "CD Review: The Dead Girls' Hair Trigger EP (MP3 enhanced)" >

Liberty Hall is a breathtaking music venue, and sometimes a movie theater, with a blue ceiling with swirling, glittery stars. As much as I love the venue, I was a little surprised that Motion City Soundtrack was playing this particular place and I was even more surprised that there wasn't a barricade for what I anticipated would be a rather pushy set. To Reinvent started the show and these indie rockers seemed to enchant the audience with their female pianist Kari Gray , but they may have been too laid back to [...]

Liberty Hall is a breathtaking music venue, and sometimes a movie theater, with a blue ceiling with swirling, glittery stars. As much as I love the venue, I was a little surprised that Motion City Soundtrack was playing this particular place and I was even more surprised that there wasn't a barricade for what I anticipated would be a rather pushy set. To Reinvent started the show and these indie rockers seemed to enchant the audience with their female pianist Kari Gray , but they may have been too laid back to [...]

2008 Pitch Music Awards Best Pop winners Dead Girls Ruin Everything are now calling themselves just The Dead Girls . While our semioticians parse the significance of this name change, enjoy this sharp, crisp and catchy free track -- like a piping hot Frito fresh off the factory line -- from the group's upcoming album, Out of Earshot . MP3: The Dead Girls, "Hair Trigger" Whoa, that's some serious clean-tone shredding there on the bridge. Drummer Eric Melin reports [...]