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WHO THE FUCK ARE THE SUNDRESSES?
If there were a punk band in the swing era of American music The Sundresses would be that band. In some ways. Formed in 2002 in Cincinnati as a joke, sort of, the band had its first show booked before its first practice, and The Sundresses have been freaking out people ever since. In 2003 the band self-produced a full-length album, The Only Tourist In Town, for their friends in the Ohio River Valley. To their surprise, not only did people at home want to hear, but lots of other people wanted a listen as well. In fact, this bands ninth out of town show was South By Southwest 2004.
Since then they have performed in cities and towns from the Rockies of Colorado to the nor' easters of Maine, and most points in between. The Sundresses are three people, but they use two drummers, two singers, two guitar players and one fine ass-swinging and stomping five-foot-tall bass player. the Sundresses put on a live show unlike any other. no fire, no auto tune, just three highly intuitive musicians with really loud amplifiers and drums and voices singing loud words loudly. Some say fuck machines, others say political subversives, everybody wants to dance.
With four consecutive SXSW's performed, many women swooned and many hands shook, the Sundresses have completed a healthy 15-song full-length, titled "Barkinghaus".
The Sundresses have played with shit tons of bands, too many to remember, but i bet you, fine reader, have heard of some of them.
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THE SUNDRESSES ACCORDING TO SHAWN ABNOXIOUS
The Sundresses have been called many things. Heroes. Villains. Subversives. Common. Un-Common. Americans. Un-Americans. Musicians… Revolutionary. Punk rockers. Rock and rollers. Drunks. Problem makers. Problem solvers. Political. Dangerous. Heathens… Just to name a few.
These terms are all relative. Relative to the moment.
With a number of tours, big and small, and more multi-day jaunts to surrounding city-states (not to mention the slew of local showings)... The Sundresses are an active independent rock and roll band doing what they do best:
Rocking your ass off every night they can. Drinking your shots of top-shelf whiskey and taking those dollar bills when you throw them on their stage.
The have released two full lengths, The Only Tourist in Town and more recently The Barkinghaus, both being critically acclaimed and heralded for their encompassing vision.
Weather it’s a SXSW appearance or another hole in the wall in Cincinnati big enough for them to fit through, they will tell you about felines, tell you about dollar bills, speak of you of murders and injustice… They will inform and mobilize!
Drawing inspiration from the Ohio River in their hometown, The Sundresses want you to know that the river isn’t blue, like on all the postcards and pictures of Cincinnati you might see in all the magazines. The river is muddy. It’s big. It’s polluted. It’s dirty. It’s the river that no one wants to swim in, but also the same water that is used for the city’s population. To drink. To bath in. To wash their beautiful high-dollar automobiles and to water their bright green lawns with.
The Sundresses are this river, just the same…
Go down to the river and stand on its banks. You will find The Sundresses there waiting for you. Waiting with an empty glass for you to take a drink,
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were attempting to hail taxi cabs in the streets of NYC. Enjoy!
