“Sure, they have these Dick Dale-the-Cramps surfing guitars, these unexpected turns inside their 60s-inspired pop hooks, these jumpy rhythms sometimes injected by exotic tempos, but, like the antics of their frontman, the sound often explodes in all directions and miraculously safely lands on its feet…”
Shriek your greetings to the new kings and queens of The Spaghetti Western Jungle anthem; the hungry dictators of Not-Quite-Gentrified-Ghetto-Pop. Dante Vs Zombies materialized out of thick air in September 2009 and in that thin slice of time have become surreal outlaws of the live “Sing-n-Dance-along”.
Reactionary pundits counter that they forced Buddy Holly and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to play on the first Siouxsie And The Banshees album. Level headed moderates (aka trembling cowards) point out that this is the only possible mutant baby of its members which feature key players from The Starlite Desperation, Jail Weddings, Swahili Blonde, Raw Geronimo, The Detroit Cobras, Brass Tax, Easy Action and We Break Cameras. (Proponents of the “factoid” seem to enjoy pointing out that they probably live in the eastern portion of Los Angeles).
Beginning with their first two releases (Yes I’m Stalking You/Branded By Nuns and Oblivion/The Bible Belt on Infrasonic ) DVZ has assured The Conglomerates that they will assassinate, by messy beheading, at least two backwards assumptions about music no longer being fun or universal, and will relentlessly continue the terror on a regular basis, until the so-called “world” complies with their vision, or ends up on it’s knees.
Either outcome is acceptable.
If you still don’t believe them, meditate upon the following:
Dante White-Aliano (The Starlite Desperation, Swahili Blonde, Detroit Cobras, Raw Geronimo, Gabriel Hart and the 4th Wall, Lost Kids): vocals, guitar, marimba, percussion
Jeff Ehrenberg (The Starlite Desperation, Easy Action): drums, percussion, vocals
Gabriel Hart (Jail Weddings, The 4th Wall, Starvations): guitar, vocals
Jada Wagensomer (Jail Weddings, Brass Tax): bass, vocals
Matt Polley (We Break Cameras): guitar, vocals
Laena Geronimo (Raw Geronimo, Swahili Blonde, The Starlite Desperation, The Like): bass, violin, percussion, vocals, keyboard
Consider yourself informed.
