Can, The Fall, Talking Heads, Pixies, Flaming Lips, Les Savy Fav, Sonic Youth, Iggy & the Stooges, Pavement, Sea and Cake, Built to Spill, Tripping Daisy, Tortoise, Bowie, Cream, Television, GoGoGo Airheart, The Flaming Groovies and truckstop cassette racks.
A notoriously eclectic bunch, The Dont's spend several hours a week improvising in their studio adjacent to a glass factory in San Francisco, retaining hundreds of hours of experimental recordings since forming in 2003. After their sophomore self-release INNER EL CAMINO hit the streets in early 2007, The Dont's were named CMJ/Sonicbids Artist of the Week, SF Deli Magazine's Artist of the Month, and were selected to showcase at CMJ 2007 in New York as well as Noise Pop 2008.
Recorded predominantly at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone, 2007's INNER EL CAMINO features Tom Waits' onetime horn virtuoso, Ralph Carney, as the band expands their indie rock palate to incorporate jagged new-wave romps, crusty psychedelica and their trademark no-fi balladry.
In April 2005, the band self-released MISC RADIO LEAKAGE, a binaurally recorded foray into the depths of love and commerce. Leakage found the four pursuing darkly melodic passages inspired by the likes of Can, The Fall, Talking Heads and The Flaming Lips. Along with INNER EL CAMINO, both records have garnered acclaim from an array of local and national print and online press. The Dont's are presently mixing their third record, entitled THOSE DELICATE CHEMICALS, which is slated for a late Spring release in 2009.
Those Delicate Chemicals CD (2009) TBA
Inner El Camino - CD (2007)
Misc Radio Leakage - CD (2005)
Model - EP (2003)
“Fusing 90s alt-rock with Talking Heads
quirkiness, The Dont's create a truly
eclectic sound.” – CMJ
"Inner El Camino is a clamorous exploration of noise and improvisation with undeniable funkified dance elements veiled by raw "freak pop." - West Coast PERFORMER
"Ranging from rock to pop to splashes of jazz and ambient, the group thrives on challenging the listener....sounds like a cross between At the Drive-In and James Brown...and the quirky “Worldview” sounds like a cross between the Flaming Lips and the Hold Steady on sedatives." - PopMatters
“The Dont’s have refined the art of teetering at the splintered edge of
disaster, embracing just the right amount of abandon...” – Flavorpill
“Edgy and wildly creative... a fantastic indie rock record." - East Bay Express
“Inner El Camino is an indie rock fun
house... simultaneously off-kilter and
embracing.” – Nascent
“The Dont's have created an unusual
indie-rock blend... lots of noise with
plenty of spacious quiet moments...”
– In Music We Trust
“The Dont's pour down smart, angular and
snappy songs that have deep roots somewhere
between early UK post punk and the
more accessible works of Sonic Youth.”
– Left Hip Magazine
“San Francisco indie rockers The Dont's
are the apple of the local music press's eye.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“Peppered with spacey blips and bleeps,
The Dont's have produced a very organic,
authentic sound.” – The Owl Mag
“The Dont's make great sense out of a
couple of decades of indie-rock... hectoring
Fall vocals, extended Can jams, and tense
but eloquent Modest Mouse guitars...”
- Delusions of Adequacy
“The Dont's sound like Can meets the Replacements.
It makes me almost wet myself.”
– Tiny Mix Tapes
“The Dont's take the knotty melodies
and fractured rhythms of icons like
Wire, the Fall and Gang of Four and
bring them into the new millennium.”
– High Bias
Ten DANK things you can do to help legalize marijuana (in no particular order).
1. Write a letter to a policy maker. This can be local, state or federal level-if we all take the time to do this it makes a huge difference. Take a few minutes to an hour to draft a letter-then once a week take five minutes-send it to a different official, when there is a bill related to marijuana you will have a good base. DANK recommends using a government website or visiting http://www.makepotlegal555.org to find address information for legislators.
2. Encourage others to write their legislators-each time you write to one, pass the name and address around to your like minded friends-get them writing in, too.
3. Volunteer for a Pro-Cannabis event! Look on online, maybe there is one in your area-there are several on the DANKinfo website and at least once volunteer for Seattle Hempfest-you will be impacted in unimaginable ways. For more info: http://hempfest.org/drupal/Volunteers
4. Attend a Pro-Cannabis event! Bring your friends and family members-especially those that would like to be better educated on the drug war and related issues. See the DANKinfo website for a list and once again, I must say (maybe I am biased) at least once in your life attend Seattle Hempfest-the third week of August. See http://www.hempfest.org/drupal for more info. Another good choice is the Global Marijuana March (www.globalmarijuanamarch.org). Check the website for it-there is likely a march planned near you—if not see #9
5. Support organizations such as LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php), where the proponents of changing the law are those whom have enforced it and seen the failures first hand. Methods of support include donating, volunteering, passing out fliers, attending events, passing on info, re-posting MySpace bulletins, etc.
6. Donate money to those organizations who are influencing policy change-great examples are NORML (www.norml.org),
I So Wanted To See You All, Last Night At "The Independent", But I Promised A Friend I'd Attend His Temporally Conflicting Event, Weeks Ago. Hope It Went Well! Next Time... For Sure! WILL BE THERE!
we're rockin El Rio in 'ol SF this saturday (i see y'all are there next saturday...)
not sure if you knew we were going to be in town. was hoping we might get a chance to see some of yous... miss you guys. def. gonna be weird coming to SF and not playing with y'all...
hope all is well. tons of love from team finn riggins.
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