BLAG DAHLIA

LEAD DWARF HUMBLES HIMSELF

By Scott Murry

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The Dwarves are a band of ill repute for album covers displaying little people and full frontal nudity. Sub Pop Records gave them the boot in the early days for claiming guitarist "HeWhoCannotBeNamed" was fatally stabbed in Philly during a bar fight. It was an elaborate hoax. They're what a good punk band should be, and Dahlia is the sadistic frontman.

AS A CHICAGO NATIVE, WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE FILM BETWEEN FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF AND DEEP DISH FISTING FOLLIES # 5?

Wow! I don't think I ever saw Deep Dish. Is that like a pornographic thing?

IT'S AN IMAGINARY PORNO.

I gotta go with the imaginary porno, it's always better than real porno. I sorta grew up in Buellerville, a lilly-white environment, which I proceeded to shit and piss all over. You start to appreciate things in the suburbs though, like cute girls that actually shower. You have to exploit the crazy girls, it makes them that much more fun to sully.

MANY PUNK BANDS THESE DAYS ARE WATERED DOWN AND BORING, BUT YOU SAY WHAT YOU WANT AND IT'S AMAZING.

Being in a band is like life: As you get older, you tend to get worse. We have to evolve and change. People tend to be lazy. They'll have a creative period in their 20s and live off it for the next 20 years. That's how you get these bands that are fossilized. In punk rock, people love you if you stay the same. They say that's integrity, but I just say that's boring. Most new bands should be able to make a better sounding, more poppy record than I can, seeing as how I'm old and don't have the resources they do. And yet I'll stack up Dwarves pop songs against any major label punk band's pop songs and they're just straight-up better. We're way nastier and way poppier than other punk bands. We do both better, and it confuses people. It confuses them even more with elements of hip-hop, death metal, experimental, garage and surf. Dwarves Must Die is a very special record, in my humble opinion, the best rock & roll record of the decade.

HOW DID HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED START PLAYING NAKED AND WITH A WRESTLING MASK?

He has always worn the mask. Salt Peter started the women's underwear thing and I upped the ante by going naked. HeWho went naked, and he didn't have the gut like I did, so he was better for it and he developed a superhero persona.

DOES PLAYING NAKED BRING ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH THE LAW? It does. That's where the mask comes in handy. We've had a lot of narrow escapes from the law, a lot of pointless violence and nudity.

WHAT ABOUT RENAMING THE BAND TO REACH A BORN-AGAIN DEMOGRAPHIC ... "GOD'S LITTLE CHILDREN"? YOU COULD SELL IT IN WAL-MART.

That would be great. We should make a subversive, religious, underground record.

THE DWARVES

WITH THE UPRISING, SPITZZ AND THE CURSES

SATURDAY 11.08.08

MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS

472 MASS. AVE., CENTRAL SQ.

CAMBRIDGE

617.864.3278

8PM/18+/$15

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