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hi! i probably check myspace once a month - if you want to get in touch with me you'd do much better sending me an email: dibson @T gmail D0T com.
for current shows, go to dibson.net/shows - i don't know if i'll be updating these listings anymore.
all my music is on my website. if you want to hear it, you can download it at dibson.net/dibs
Note! The domino sugar factory was taken by "PetrolumeJelliffe" on flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos/petroleumjelliffe/157497466/
An introduction...
The latest in a long line of quirky anti-folk ingenues, including Beck, Adam Green and Jeffrey Lewis, Dibs applies that time-honored tradition of off-beat songwriting to his own private world of sugar factories, laundry baskets and ducks. With a low voice, both sweet and deadpan, and a guitar-style both virtuosic and sloppy, Dibson Hoffweiler carves out a space of compassion and intelligence in a landscape of boring love songs and thinly-veiled songwriterly misogyny.
A biography...
Known for his work in anti-folk flagship bands Cheese On Bread, Huggabroomstik and Urban Barnyard, Dibs began his cultural life as an anonymous Moldy Peaches fan. But, after a stint working the soundboard at the Sidewalk Cafe, and two years generating buzz with his old band, Dibs & Sara, this Jersey boy established himself as a musical force in his own right. After several months touring Europe and North America, Dibs has proved (to himself, and to others) that his bizarre, ramshackle aesthetic is palatable outside the freaky comfort zone of New York anti-folk.
An album...
The dreaded "mature" third album often finds a songwriter drained of the spark that made her/him interesting in the first place. Not so with young Dibson! DIBS BLEEDS BOOKS finds our guitar nerd more focused, more direct, and more emotional than on his previous efforts, without missing his screw-ball edge or tipping too far into unreflective earnestness. Note the rollicking clarinets of "Sugar Factory," the classic pop twinkle of "Take a Seat" and the fiendish jazz chords of "Caffeine Eyes." A mission statement of tenderness and a modest war cry against bullshit, DIBS BLEEDS BOOKS is a gem of cleverly-produced, self-recorded folk ponderings.
An advertisement...
You can purchase Dibs records (Dibs Bleeds Books, Slivers & Bits and More Unsent Letters) from Olive Juice Music Distro or directly from Dibson by sending a request to dibson@gmail.com. Also on CD Baby somewhere is "Slivers & Bits".
Jonathan Richman meets Beat Happening. Daniel Johnston punches Stephen Merritt. Anyway you compare him, Dibs is his own weirdo.
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