Guitar Hotel, 3 a.m.

DML in ICT Magazine!!!

Awesome interview with Rob by JamBase's Brennan Lagasse in the new ICT Magazine, from when we played the Hellenic Theatre in Berkeley, in which he discusses the transcription of our newborn album. Highlights excerpted below:

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"JamBase: You impact a pretty unequalled sound. What bands impact influenced you?

Rob Barbato: I conceive with the newborn achievement Evangelist Phillips from The Mamas and The Papas was a pretty bounteous influence, and apparently the Grateful Dead, CCR (Credence Clearwater Revival) and clog aforementioned that. But also bands aforementioned Big Star were a pretty bounteous impact for us. Who added would you feature Will?

Will Canzoneri [organ/clavinet]: R.E.M.

Rob: Yeah, R.E.M. as a past sound.

JamBase: Well that’s pretty modify since there’s an R.E.M. calculate in your intermixture shack backstage.

What’s inspired your songwriting and penalization compositions beyond singable influences?

Rob: Friends and kinsfolk are Brobdingnagian inspirations, and also added friend’s music... That’s ever something that gets me rattling agog to create.

The achievement was transcribed in San Francisco at a flat where some added famous tracks impact been recorded. What prefabricated you opt that site?

Rob: Hyde Street was where CCR had the Cosmo’s Factory where they transcribed their prototypal digit or threesome records before they touched to Fantasy in Berkeley... All of Herbie Hancock’s depression records were finished there, and Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty were finished there.

JamBase: There’s awful interplay between you and your bandmates. Do you conceive that comes more from the instance you’ve locate in practicing, transcription or touring?

Rob: It’s mainly from touring.

JamBase: What do you wager in the forthcoming for DML?

Rob: Make added record, indite modify songs, that’s it. And impact recreation activity shows."



On drummer Dan Allaire:
"Yeah, Dan [Allaire] has totally denaturized the band. He’s an awful drummer. Andy [Ganelli] was an awful drummer, but Dan does clog differently... It’s a bounteous care and he’s an awful sheik and an awing drummer, so it’s rattling enthusiastic to impact him in the band."

On producer Nick Huntington:
"With Nick it was more of cooperation in the creation area, and he’s an awful musician, composer and producer, so we were rattling lucky... I would fuck to impact with him again whether with DML or otherwise."

On fans:
"I conceive we impact fans every over the locate that imbibe up. We impact fans in England and here and there, but I would feature existence a West Coast adornment makes it more a West Coast abstract [laughs]. But we impact assorted listeners, especially with the newborn record.

We intercommunicate to a clump of assorted people."


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Full interview available here.

the results are in

Behold the fruits of our labor on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic yesterday! If you stick around long enough, you'll hear a brand new song called "Rain Down South," and another song that's not quite new but which you've probably never heard before.

Set list:
1. Backseat
2. Split Minute
3. New America
4. Maple Day Getaway
5. Trail the Line
[interview]
6. Dear Author
7. Cry On Me Woman
8. Rain Down South
9. 'Tis a Great Art To Saunter
10. June Bloom

Seriously huge thanks to everyone there for having us in - they're so important to us, in fact, that they're the only broadcast entity to have their own keyword on this blog. It was a real joyous occasion for us, which we topped off with our first (!) trip to Canter's on Fairfax, which not only has Babe Ruth's favorite pickles, and is not only where Saul Hudson earned the nickname "Slash," but has the only reuben in town you can eat and not feel like a zeppelin after. Legend'ry.

And yes, Jason Bentley talks like that all the time.

a real shocker of a session

More videostuff, you said? Well, here. You should thank ShockHound for this gem.





Happy 2009. Our resolution is to come see you.

optimistically yours,
the dudes

for your viewing pleasure: live at Amoeba

Another nugget from the recent-history vault! This was/is our lil in-store performance at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, back on October 2, capturing that very brief (and bleary) moment between the Dandy Warhols tour and our trip to London. If memory serves me right - and according to the video, it does - we got an early start that day. Many thanks to everybody at Amoeba for doing such a damned incredible job with this. I suspect they cut the "throngs of adoring shoppers" footage from the Paul McCartney in-store. So, yeah, thanks.

The performance:


and the interview:


and also a photo gallery.

So watch this for a few days, and come back for more while-we-were-out media.

happy holidays,
the dudes

the other two ways out video

Check out our recently-unearthed 1981 appearance on German television...



and then there's the interview too. It's a shame you can't see or hear off-camera rock journalism icon/former Creem editor Dave DiMartino, whose said some really amazing things in what was kinda the best interview we've had in recent memory (as you can see here, the fella knows what he's doing).

I-24, Tennessee

In the van. Therefore, Darker My Dudes is pleased to bring you an exclusive full van interview.

Q: I really like the new record. What are your influences?

Tim: I'm thinking Arby's.
Rob: I rather be at home. In Vegas.
Andy: Vote for Obama. At least he surfs.
Malia: Free range chicken just means they keep the barn door open.
Jared: I'm sick.
Will: I feel like break dancing.
Scott: Life is good. No complaints.

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p.s. Once/if we ever find wifi again, you're in for a shitstorm of (ahem) content. Until then, pleasure youself to this picture.

Cooleyhighharmonies

Having a real good time here in Philadephia, home of our first substantial downtime of the tour. Yesterday featured:


Recording a real pretty set for YROCK on XPN...




Ten-ounce? Tenallis? Ten hours? Tinnitus?

Indulging in a Jim's cheesesteak or three...


... today found us at Drexel University for a fast 'n' loose acoustic set, and tonight, it's the Theatre of the Living Arts.