VIDEO: Dum Dum Girls - Bhang Bhang, I'm A Burnout

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Dum Dum Girls - Pay For Me

Record Store Day was fun I suppose. I mean seeing so many people lining up to buy things that have been out for some time (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) still seems a bit odd and the blatant profiteering from the people who snaffled the Blur 7"s leaves a bad taste in the mouth but still, I got to see Caribou and Pulled Apart By Horses. In a shop. On a Saturday afternoon.

One thing I didn't see in Rough Trade was the Male Bonding/ Dum Dum Girls split release. To be honest that's probably a good thing as I would have bought it and sent my finances spiralling into debt and evicition a la Flight of The Conchords and their extra cup. One half of the release has cropped up online courtesy of the sweeter smelling (I assume) band involved. 'Pay For Me takes everything great about the DDG's album 'I Will Be' and distills it into a dangerously sweet three minutes of melody and abandon. Stream this black leather pop now...

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Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (Review)

I reviewed the Sub Pop released debut album from Dum Dum Girls over on Gigwise. It's easily one of the best records of the year so far and definitely one for the end of year polls.

www.gigwise.com/IWillBe

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VIDEO: Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La

Still sounds great, now looks great too.

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Dum Dum Girls Interview

I have a lot of love for Dum Dum Girls. 'Jail La La' was one of the best songs I heard all year in 2009 and their forthcoming album (I Will Be, review coming Monday) is packed full of more of the same. I was lucky enough to catch up with lead singer Dee Dee recently and have just posted the chat on Gigwise. Click the link to read what we had to talk about.

What Will Be Will Be: Gigwise meets Dum Dum Girls

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Dum Dum Girls - 'Jail La La' (New Version)

Dum Dum Girls are set to release their debut album 'I Will' in the UK on March 29th with a 'Jail La La' 7" pre-ceding it on February 15. A newer song may have been nice but 'Jail...' is a bona-fide hit. The cover for the album is below with a link to the newly recorded, aforementioned track.


MP3: Dum Dum Girls - 'Jail La La'

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Incoming 001: Dum Dum Girls

Dum Dum Girls are putting the ‘pop’ into Noise Pop in 2010. Having emerged early on last year the band have been slowly but surely putting out a string of great releases on split 7”s alongside bands like Graffiti Island and Crocodiles. Songs like ‘Longhair’ and ‘Jail La La’ place emphasis on melody over fuzz and boast some of the sweetest melodies Phil Spector could dream of recording. News on an album and UK tour dates are scarce but the band are booked to play White Heat in London later this year and if you want some instant nostalgia the recent Christmas single ‘Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Die’ is seven shades of superb.

MP3: Dum Dum Girls- 'Jail La La'

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Dum Dum Girls

I wrote this for the second edition of the Drowned In Sound New Music Mixtape.

2. Dum Dum Girls - 'Over The Phone (Demo)'

Having recently signed to Sub Pop (like last week's Mixtape stars Male Bonding), this one girl project from Los Angeles is another flying the lo-fi flag with distorted chamber pop that sounds like The Supremes by way of The Smell. 'Over The Phone' is still only in its demo form, but already sounds as great as previous single 'Jail La La', even managing to sneak a subtle reference to The Stone Roses in amongst the fuzz - which lets it off sounding so similar to 'I Wanna Be Adored'... David Renshaw

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