The Dwarves
By user • Nov 1st, 2008 • Category: Band Bios
It’s been 25 years since the Chicago punk mainstays first brought their thrashing brand of rock ‘n’ roll and Universal Monsters-style spooks to their home city. But two-and-a-half decades in — with dozens of LPs, EPs and compilation releases — isn’t any time to change, despite the band’s last studio output being 2004’s The Dwarves Must Die. With their familiar brash sexuality, these blue-collar rockers have forged along with the same whores-and-gore riffs and exhibitionist stage antics since the Reagan Administration. The trek hasn’t been without its share of minor hangups (cuts, scrapes, broken bones, etc.) nor without a major self-induced misstep (launching a very public campaign declaring that the band’s very-much-alive guitarist had died, and getting dropped from their record label for doing such). All in all it’s a monster tale that finds The Dwarves no better off in 2008 than they were in 1983. But as these guttural rockers would certainly attest, who the fuck cares? They still rock. Hard.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, November 2008
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