New mini-review of “Screeching and Exploding”

“…plays like the soundtrack to a futuristic David Lynch western…”

Love it!

Longtime DWLB supporter Vince Font has written a lovely mini-review of Screeching and Exploding. Thanks, Vince!

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We’re Number Two!

…but we try harder.

Our “Butcher Covers” album was named the #2 album of 2009 by the progressive rock podcast Prog’opolis. Thanks to hosts Vince and Daisy Jane for this fine honor!

Congratulations to Crimson Jazz Trio, who placed first (grumble grumble). On the follow-up to “Butcher Covers,” perhaps we should do a version of Thela Hun Ginjeet. With, I dunno, bodhran, baritone sax and flanged mandolin.

If you’re not already a regular listener to Vince and Daisy’s show…you should be!

soon to screech, soon to explode

wherein a whole bunch of things happen all of a sudden-like.

This past weekend, Donny Who Loved Bowling got together –live and in person– for the first time in five years to work on our new album. The results were stunning. Over four days holed up in a studio in Chicago (with brief sojourns out to see 2 Devo concerts at the Vic), five tracks-in-progress were finished, and seven more were written and recorded. The title list as it stands now includes:

Eczema Bop (previously heard on Vince & Daisy’s Progopolis show)
Lazarus Rising
Ain’t Gotta Come On So Boss
Miss Belgium
Archivist Masturbatrix
Corsets to Covet
Deena’s Mitten
Fairchild 666
Mystery Abba Concert
Girdle of Crocodiles
Bunk Floyd
Bettie/Were You There? (also previously heard on Progopolis)

This, as Tom Clancy would say, constitutes the bulk of the Soviet surface fleet. and at the moment, it is the title list and running order for dwlb’s third album, Screeching and Exploding.

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adding guitar to “Mystery Abba Concert”

Vox Beatle, Marshall, Electra LP copy. Yeahness.

the venerable Silvertone

petkus runs the voodoo down

blood and petkus listening to a mix

What doesn’t come across in the photos is that for reasons best left unexplored, the movies Help! and Ocean’s Eleven were in near-constant rotation on the studio TV.

There’s still some work to do on a couple of the songs, and we need to work out cover art…but we expect that in a very short time we’ll be sending Screeching and Exploding off to be mastered and then up to CD Baby and iTunes!

It was a fantastic weekend in Chicago, the excitement level was through the roof at Toxic Bag Headquarters where the recordings were made. Thanks to Blood and JB for coming in to clap hands.

DWLB on Progopolis Redux

As it turns out, the interview we did with Vince and Daisy did not air on their anniversary show, but that’s more than okay, because they’re actually devoting an entire show to us! Witness:

After five long years, Vince and Daisy finally sit down with Joe Griffin and Christopher Petkus, the creative minds behind the experimental band Donny Who Loved Bowling, for an interview of epic proportions. Spanning the length of the entire 3-hour show, we’ve interlaced fine selections from the band’s diverse musical catalogue with a witty, fascinating conversation ranging in topics from their recording methods and influences, to evolution and the purpose of the appendix. The show will air this Saturday at 7pm Pacific (10pm Eastern) and can only be heard at www.thedividingline.com. Bring popcorn. This is hands down one of the best shows in the five-year history of Prog’opolis.

Seriously, this could not be more awesome and thrilling. We hope you’ll be there.

Tune in this Saturday, September 5, at the Dividing Line Radio Network site.

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DWLB on Progopolis Celebrast!

DWLB has, over the years, enjoyed a fantastic amount of airplay on the Prog’opolis internet radio show. Co-hosts Vince and Daisy Jane have become good friends of the band, and they frequently are good enough to world-premiere new Donny songs. Heck and tarnation, they even gave us the name for this blog. We loves ‘em all the live-long day.

They’re celebrating five years of the show this Saturday, August 15, with a special 5th anniversary broadcast. To help them out we sat down in our respective studios, at our Skype-equipped confusers, and had ourselves a two and a half hour interview with Vince and Daisy — an interview the four of us had been talking about doing since we first sent them “tree fort” all those years ago. Vince is likely going mad trying to edit the interview down to a coherent and succinct 5 minutes for inclusion in the show; we do tend to ramble.

Please tune in Saturday, 7 pm Pacific, to listen live to the Prog’opolis Fifth Anniversary Special. Jump into their chat room and tell ‘em congrats. Ask Vince about his surgery. Hear some great music.

Happy Anniversary, Vince and Daisy! Thanks for everything.

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