Staff Pick of the Week and some extra info on the Rollins event

First things first. Concerning the Henry Rollins signing, if you are unable to attend this event (work ruins everything) you're in luck! We can hold a copy of his book and ask him to sign it for you! Just give us a call!



And also....

Every so often here at Repo we like to pick one record that we can all agree on as being the one thing we can't stop listening to. The one we pick today is.....

Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
(Sub pop)

We loved Dum Dum Girls first full length I Will Be and the follow up EP He Gets Me High was one of our staff picks a bit back. So it would have been a safe assumption that we were looking forward to this one but you would have been wrong. Too many times the sophomore release from promising bands are lack luster at best and leads to lack of interest from the general public. We feared this like finding out your dog has cancer, so we distance ourselves from it so it wouldn't hurt so bad when the dog dies. But we were TOTALLY WRONG! This record is like everything we loved about Dum Dum Girls made better. The vocals are brought a little bit more up front, though they're still washed out just enough to sound like the Dum Dum Girls. The singing in general has improved vastly. Tracks like "coming Down" and "In My Head" showcase some real talent vocally. They've also lost some of the garage rock spit for a more vulnerable feeling album, lots of songs about feeling lonely and loss. This adds some needed complexity to the Dum Dum appearance and it fits right in with their sound. And their willingness to clock a song past the five minute mark is nice without felling drawn out for no reason. Slightly slower tempo makes certain songs feel very dreamy, and that combined with lyrics about boys sorta makes you feel like you're a teenager again.

I would punch someone in the face just to be the guy that takes Dee Dee's jacket when she comes into a nice restaurant.